Why Goal Setting is important - Check Goal Setting Activities Guide to Your Best Year Ever

Mastering the mindset

Your mindset is how you perceive the world around you and therefore, how you interact with it. It’s your mindset more than your actions that lead to success or failure bascule it shapes your experience.

• Plan your best year ever with a growth mindset. This is where you believe in your ability to consistently grow and improve.
• Plan your best year ever with a mindset of mastery. This is where you believe that you have the ability to master the skills and habits needed to achieve your goals.
• Plan the best year ever with a mindset of abundance. This is where you believe that you are surrounded with all the resources you need to achieve your goals.

How do you master these mindsets? By thinking them over and over again with conviction. Your brain will come to believe them and over time, they become part of your nature.

Work on your self-image

There’s a big difference between accepting yourself as you are and actually believing that you are average, mediocre or not destined for great things.
Changing your self-image means overcoming negative beliefs. Highly successful people aren’t a lot different from you. In fact, they may not be particularly skilled, talented or brilliant. The key difference is that they believe in themselves am in their ability to change and grow. Their life motto is always “I can do it.”

Choose a word for the year

This word will be the overarching change that you want to achieve in your life this year. It’s the framework within which you will plan your goals.

Think of one word that best sums up your biggest aspiration, such as: happiness, clarity, health, courage, confidence, integrity, or productivity. Next, identify the goals you need to set in order to make the change, and in which area/ areas of your life.

Set Goal Setting SMART

The Acronym stands for Specific – Measurable – Achievable – Relevant – Time-bound. If you need to, do your due diligence on how to set SMART goals and make sure that all of your goals adhere as much as possible to this framework.

SMART is an acronym that you can use to guide your goal setting

This will give you more clarity and help you evaluate your progress on a regular basis.

Adopt the 5 habits of successful people

• 1. Start with the end in mind
  This means being extremely clear and specific on your end goals, then gearing your activities towards reaching them. Visualize having actually achieved your goal, then work back step by step to the actions that allowed you to reach it. This positive visualization has the added benefit of being extremely motivating as well.
• 2. Be proactive
  This means always taking the initiative rather than waiting for things to happen. More importantly, it means taking action to quickly change what’s not working for you or taking measures to remedy setbacks.

• 3. Identify priorities
  Be very clear on what your priorities are and never let yourself get sidetracked.
• 4. Plan for setbacks
  A setback doesn’t mean you have to go back to square one. Have a backup plan for how you will deal with setbacks and unexpected situations.
• 5. Hone your best skill
  Never stop improving, especially when it comes to your biggest talent or skill. Whether it’s analytical thinking, a specific creative talent or simply being a good listener, always look for ways to improve ad strengthen yourself in that area.
• 6. Conclusion
  In summary, your mindset about change is proportionate to the change you can create in your life.Focus on practicing and developing the powerful mindset categories discussed here when planning for the year ahead.
  A positive, proactive mindset will help you set the right goals, pursue them with motivation and confidence, and achieve more than you imagined possible.

Along with setting specific SMART goals

this is the secret to planning the best year ever, every single year!