Goal management: Encyclopedia II - Goal management - Personal goals

Goal management - Personal goals

Individuals can have personal goals. A student may set a goal of a high mark in an exam. An athlete might walk five miles a day. A traveler might try to reach his destination city within three hours.

Managing goals can give you returns in all areas of your life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on and improve.

Goal setting and planning (Goalwork) gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your resources.

Efficient Goalwork includes recognizing and resolving any guilt, inner conflict or limiting belief that might cause you to sabotage your efforts.

By setting clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see progress in what might have seemed a long grind.

Goal management should include:

• Assess and dissolve emotional blocks to success
• Time management
• Frequent reconsideration (consistent check)
• Feasibility check
• Adjusting milestones and main goal target

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Personal goals", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki