Continued from last week…
1. Ensure that your goals are meaningful
Goals can’t just be specific. The second step for achieving your goals is to ensure that they’re meaningful. We will always do more to achieve a goal that has a deep-rooted meaning to us than we will to achieve something that’s superficial.

If you have money goals, and you associate a deep enough meaning to them, then they’re more likely to be achieved. You can’t just want things for the sake of wanting them. You can’t just want to lose weight or make more money because those are goals you’ve always wanted.
Why have you always wanted them?

We will always do more to achieve things that are deeply meaningful to us. When those meanings involve things like family, freedom, security, country and love, we’ll go out of our way to see things through.

We won’t throw in the towel and give up after we hit a few stumbling blocks or fail repeatedly. Take a moment to write down the meaning that you’re associating with your goals. Dig deep. It has to be a profound meaning.

It has to be something that you’re willing to sacrifice everything for. Write this down. This is one of the most important steps in the process.

2. Pick goals that are achievable
Ten years down the road, we can achieve anything as long as we work hard during that entire period. But, when it comes to your one, two and even three-year goals, ensure that they’re achievable. Don’t say that you’re going to make a billion rands in 12 months if you’re currently heavily in debt.

When you pick goals that are achievable, not only are you more likely to achieve them, but you can also develop some momentum in the process. It’s exciting to accomplish a goal that is currently out of reach, no matter what that goal is.

Once you get there, you’re fuelled by the enthusiasm of reaching your goal. Find goals that are big, but not impossible to achieve, at least for your shorter-term goals.

Plan your 12-month goals so that they act as milestones or markers towards the longer-term, much bigger goals. Then, be sure to create a massive action plan that will help you see things through.

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