Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Goal Setting to Achieve Success

By Darrin Wiggins


A growing number of new business start-ups take place each day. Other people begin major home improvement or landscaping projects. Most of these businesses and projects will fail before they progress very far at all. A lack of planning that leads to the parties becoming overwhelmed is to blame for most of this. Goal setting that examines the steps toward completion is the best way to ensure success.

Of course, the final finished project or success of a business is a goal to aim for. However, reaching this requires several smaller steps. For this reason, it is best to break it up right from the start and establish realistic goals for the completion of each step.

An important first goal of a person trying to start a new business should be to create a written business plan. It will be important to make this document clear, concise, and complete. This will be an essential portion of a next step, which will likely be securing financing for the venture.

The next key goal in a business start-up is securing financing. Completion of a sound business plan will facilitate completion of this step. Banks and other lenders are much more willing to lend money if they can see up front exactly how it will be spent and how one plans to pay it back.

Landscaping of one's property is another example. Having a beautiful garden filled with blooming flowers and adequate shade is a good final goal. Reaching this point will, however, require one to perform several different tasks along the way.

One must do some research to see what sort of plants grow best in that area and what care they require. The soil must be tested to ensure it provides all the right nutrients to promote the growth of all the plants chosen. Water must be made available. Each of these steps should be considered as goals to check off along the way to completion of the project.

This process can be applied to any type of project. Breaking things down into smaller chunks and establishing a time frame in which each step is to be accomplished makes large projects move much faster and more smoothly. It also makes it possible to divide the work and make different members of the family or group responsible for the completion of their own individual goals.

Goal setting is actually a small step in any project. Yet, it proves to be one of the most critical for success. It is important to keep each of the goals realistic along the way. This means using realistic time frames and ensuring that funds are available when needed. Every successful business in the world was started using this process as was every successful DIY project of any size. It will work for any type of project one can conceive as long as one remembers to complete the steps in the proper order and not to set goals that are unattainable.




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