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Introduction to Personal Goal Setting

By Chandra Vennapoosa | on May 4, 2012 |
Goal Setting

No one can stop you or anyone from making dreams and ambitions for yourself. You can dream big, but there is no need to set your dreams too high when you know that you can be happy with what you can achieve. You can establish goals for yourself without having to be someone you are not.

Each and every one is capable of personal goal setting to reach success in the different aspects of their life – career, family and relationships, personal finances, and other areas for success.

Personal goal setting is a process of organized individual planning of one’s dreams and ambitions. It is an effective and dependable method for determining what you wish to accomplish whether in your personal or professional life. These goals can also be short-term or long-term but one thing is for sure, the achievement of these goals can give you the satisfaction you need. Goal setting provides you the direction and focus to attain success in the many aspects of your life.

Identifying Our Personal Goals

The fact that personal goals are our own aspirations in life makes it different from business goals. In order to classify personal goals, the following categories may be considered, although we can come up with our own categories:

  • Career

    This is probably one of the most common and important personal goals we set for ourselves. Our career goal is on top of the list because it is an essential need for survival and creates our status in the society.
  • Education

    The fact that education is a basic need for every individual to lead to the achievement of career goals makes it an important personal goal. For parents, it is a goal they set for their children, which gives them a feeling of success when they graduate.
  • Family and Relationships

    Specifically, we always aim to keep a strong bond with our family and build good, long-lasting relationships with other people who are important to our lives. This personal goal satisfies the interpersonal aspect.
  • Financial

    This is another one of the crucial and essential goals. Probably, we all want to have better finances and even aim of increasing the amount of money saved for practical reasons.
  • Personality Development

    Enhancing the personality is a very positive personal goal because the aim is to transform us into better individuals with the right attitude and behavior in our overall being. This also includes an improvement in our physical aspect.
  • Pleasure

    We find satisfaction in the achievement of our dreams such as owning a nice car, living in a nice house, traveling to places, and many more.

Tips in Personal Goal Setting

If you need some good ideas in establishing effective personal goal setting, you can follow these simple tips:

  • Reflect on dreams and aspirations then find out what you really want. You also might want to consider what you are capable of achieving at the moment. If you dream of traveling to Europe but find it quite difficult to reach for now, start first with other specific goals that may eventually help you reach that goal of traveling to places you want to go.
  • It is best to write down your goals. A good way to do it is to categorize them into short-term or long-term, or it could be according to the type of goal such as those stated above, and mark them according to priorities.
  • Each goal must be stated or written down as a positive statement. Goals expressed positively condition the mind to also act and think positively about achieving it.

Achieving Personal Goals

A sense of fulfillment and satisfaction is felt once personal goals are achieved. It also makes us feel successful even with the small goals that we have. Self-confidence increases because of the knowledge that we can be capable of achieving bigger goals. After accomplishing a certain goal, we can probably give ourselves a try on harder and more challenging ones. If personal skills and abilities are not sufficient to meet a particular goal, maybe it is best to attend to those skills and find ways to improve them. Our goals can either fail or succeed depending on how we manage to act on them.

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Chandra Vennapoosa

Chandra Vennapoosa, B.S Arch Graduate, Managing Director - Exforsys Inc, Founder of exforsys.com and geekinterview.com. Chandra's mission is "to provide quality career coaching and interview advice for aspiring candidates". She is an avid writer and is also very passionate to help others become professional freelancers. In addition to several online trainings, she has authored the popular book "How to Become a Successful Freelancer"

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