Having a goal allows you to focus your energies on devising ways to achieve it. When someone makes a decision and begins to focus on achieving a specific goal (and even better within a specific period of time), the powerful subconscious mind goes to work and begins to play with ideas and develop strategies in various ways to achieve completion successful goal.

Why goal setting is important for life.

When you set a goal, both your conscious and subconscious begin to work on it and begin to develop a plan of action. You will find that you begin to ask yourself questions about what needs to be done in order to reach your goal. 

You may find yourself coming up with amazing ideas and solutions to problems or obstacles that have gotten in the way of achieving your goal. Solutions and ideas that you are surprised to have ever thought of may start to appear in your mind.

Our subconscious is an extremely powerful tool. The more often you remind yourself of your goal, the more your mind will work on ways to achieve it. Some people find that the answers come to them when they are asleep and dreaming.

Have you ever noticed that there is no correlation between being rich and having a high IQ or a college degree? If there were, all doctors and college graduates would be wealthy, and as statistics show, most end up in the same situation as 95% of the population.

The main thing that most independent wealthy people have in common is that they have set goals and have achieved them. They spend time reading and learning about wealth creation and are happy to learn from other people's mistakes and experiences as well as their own. They set goals and realize that they will be much better able to achieve them if they become familiar with the ways other people acted and the things others have done to be successful. 

Wealthy people create wealth by carefully using the income available to them to their best advantage. They know that working longer and longer hours is not the way to achieve financial freedom, but rather they must use what they have and make it grow.

Goal Setting: 

When you start working on your goals, you should make them as specific as possible. A vague idea or a generalization like I want to buy investment property and get rich is not enough. It needs to be much more detailed. I want to own my first investment property in six months. I will save for legal and banking expenses, and I will borrow 100% of the property's value.

 I will find a great value three bedroom brick veneer house that is close to schools and shopping centers. It will be new or less than eight years old. It will be structurally sound and will require a minimal amount of maintenance. I will find a good agent to handle this, who has a lot of experience and he will find me a good tenant.

This is a specific goal and I could add a lot more to it. Because your goal is specific, your mind immediately begins asking questions like How much money will I need for fees and charges? How much does that relate if I break it down weekly? 

Will I have to look at my current expenses to see where I need to cut back to make up the difference in the amount I need to save? Specific goals help you create specific and realistic action plans, and as the old saying goes, if you don't plan, you plan to fail.

You will find that if you write down your goals on a piece of paper and put it in a prominent place so that you can read it often, your subconscious and conscious mind will start asking questions and finding answers. and you will find that you have already started taking the steps necessary to achieve your goal.

It helps to have a series of goals, ranging from daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, ten yearly, and thirty to forty yearly. You can always refine and change your goals as time passes and situations change.

You may find it easier to start at the 40-year mark and then work your way back. Try to figure out what steps would be necessary to achieve your 40-year goal and spread them out over the different time frames, down to what you would need to accomplish to finish the bottom line.

Think before setting your goal

Try to keep your goals realistic and achievable. Don't set a goal that is too difficult. Set many small, easily achievable goals and work step by step to achieve your path to success. Stay positive. Believe in yourself and your abilities to succeed, even if other people patronize you, try to put you off, or tell you it doesn't make sense.

Setting and achieving goals helps you build stronger character. It is always useful to remember that our brain cannot harbor positive and negative thoughts at the same time. By staying positive, you will dispel negative thought patterns. Even if you run into small obstacles that get in the way of your goals, don't give up. Focus on finding a solution, instead of focusing on the problem, use a positive response.

 Focusing on finding solutions allows you to put your brain to work, to find ways around things. If you only see an obstacle as a problem and just accept that life has taken a hit and let it stop you in your tracks, then you will never learn or grow. Remember that children learn to walk by falling. Focus on the long-term accomplishments you want to accomplish, and your problems will be easier to overcome.