Saturday, September 30, 2006

Goal Setting 4

If you think you have got all the benefits of goal setting, wait until you hear this one. Welcome to Leading Right, I am Abiodun Fijabi.

What about you waking up every morning and feeling like punching the air. A bright smile fills your face. You draw the curtains of your room and you see the new day from your window. You consider the challenges that lay ahead of you and instead of feeling intimidated by its enormity; you feel an overwhelming enthusiasm to face the day. You smile at yourself again. Moments after, you are behind your desk or at the port of your duty, working out your dream with vigour, faith and excitement.

Is this an impossible dream? Not quite, if you have goals. Goals make you feel enthusiastic about the activities you need to engage in to fulfil your dream. Effective leaders agree they are able to feel a greater level of excitement whenever they set goals and visualize themselves moving towards the goals.

Now, imagine yourself never waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Imagine you enthusiastically challenging your obstacles, brazing the odds and pushing on with your plans. The former war-time Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill says, “Success is failing several times without losing enthusiasm.” Now, if you want to turn your failure into one challenge that you can enthusiastically take on, then consider setting goals today.

With the enthusiasm you get a focus on results. Goals help you to focus on the results rather than the problem or activity. They see much of the accomplishments rather than the challenge alone. That makes the challenge less intimidating and places success within reach. Besides, you are able to evaluate how far and how well you have gone in the pursuit of your dream. This evaluation of performance and progress only helps you focus more on the results and helps you take responsibility for your life and dream.

Dear listener, you just have to set goals to fulfil your dream. Your vision is worthless without goals. Get down to setting goals today and experience a new level of enthusiasm and the focus on achievements. I wish you all the best in this endeavour.

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