Tuesday 22 January 2013

Why You Should Use Goal Setting Software

By Katie J. Brooks


There are a number of goal setting software programs available in the market today and below are 5 reasons I believe you should seriously consider looking into them:Clarity Is Power,To paraphrase personal development guru Brian Tracy "Clarity accounts for 80% of success and happiness". The number one reason most people don't achieve their goals is that they are not clear on what they want.They think they know what they want,But it's not until they go through the rigorous questions built into a decent goal setting software program will they really get clear on their outcome. And it is with this clarity that comes the power to achieve goals. Knowing exactly what you want, what it will look like and making sure its your goal and not someone else's is half the battle.
[Best Goal Setting Software]


Motion Beats Meditation.Any decent goals software will first guide you through a set of questions to determine your outcome followed almost immediately by action steps.It is the daily persistent actions that make your goal a reality. A decent goal setting program will have this built into the system. Not only the actions, but it will break the actions down into manageable chunks and guide you to schedule these actions in to your calendar,What You Measure Is What You Get. Not only will a goal setting software help you break down your goals into manageable actions. It will force you to track and measure the actions you take.

Thirdly, there should be an easy way for you to track progress on any individual goal as well as all your goals, easily and ideally very visually. And finally, this is very important, there should be a method of setting up habits that relate to your goals. Habits is where the rubber meets the road; it is the things we do each day and each week that determine our destinations, and if you are going to reach any significant goal you have not yet achieved, it will require either changing existing habits, or more likely, establishing completely new habits.

Goal setting software is more than a day timer. It helps you set goals properly, it allows you formulate supporting habits, and it helps you track your progress on the goals you have set. In the end, such software should help you reach your goals, not just dream about reaching them.In today's high speed and high tech society, it appears that there is software being developed to do almost every task imaginable. We are constantly on the lookout for software which helps us carry out repetitive or time consuming tasks more efficiently.

Practical.Why do you have to put yourself into a lot of trouble thinking about how you will set the right goals when you can be free from all the mind blowing hassles brought by goal setting? By using the SMART software in setting your goals, you no longer have to torture yourself with listing down your goals, wondering if they are correct or not, and doing trial and error just to make sure you will be successful in your endeavors. With goal setting software, you save time, effort, and money.

There are some people who are just perfect at setting goals and can do it easily and even follow through without too much effort. Then there are the rest of the people for whom goal setting is a challenge and one that is very difficult to begin let alone follow through on. For this group of people goal setting software may be their answer. Goal setting is something you engage in when you want to make a change.

Yes a person can make a change without writing down their goals but if they use goal setting software especially an interactive one then goal setting is that much easier.Good goal setting software should have guidelines and other help so that a person can who is using it to actually set up, define and carry through on a goal can use it for assistance for guidance and for support too. If it has tips for goal setting it makes it that much easier to set up some goals and actually achieve them.

When you set up a goal you are taking an effort to achieve something. This achievement or goal can be something short term or something that takes some time to achieve. A short term goal may be to change eating sweets and sugar filled items but to be an effective goal it has to have something specific you have to reach for. Just to write cut down on sugar doesn't do it. You have to set a goal that is quantifiable and measurable. So you would write down that you want to only eat a sweet or sugar filled candy on Saturday only. Then define it further with how much you will consume at one sitting or during the day.

However now comes the downside...are you ready for the revelation? Goal setting software WON'T make you a better goal setter.It may make you a more organised goal setter, even a more focused goal setter, but it WON'T help you achieve your goals any quicker.That's just the simple truth.It is a tool and just like any other tool, the results you obtain from using it will be determined by your determination, skills and hard work. This is why so many people try goal software and are then disappointed by the results. "It doesn't work" they cry!, and then they move onto the next "latest and greatest" software.

This is as preposterous as a wannabe artist throwing away a particular brush as it didn't make him a better artist, or a wannabe chef complaining that his pots and pans hadn't helped him become a world class chef.Goal software can be a remarkable tool and a tremendously powerful one, however only if used in conjunction with self discipline and will power.You MUST however develop the habits, actions, behaviour and mindset of a successful person first. If you don't do this, you will find that no goal setting software on the planet will help you.So before you run to order your software, sit down and establish if you are taking action on the basics, if not then you should delay your purchase until you feel you have the relevant mindset and success habits




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