Achieving Personal Goals – The Key to Achievement
Welcome to Achieving Personal Goals!
If you’re like most visitors to this website, there’s something in your life that you’re not completely happy with, something you want to change, or maybe an area that you’d just like to improve. If you’ve decided that the best way to make that happen is to learn more about what it takes to set and achieve personal goals, then I think you’re in the right place.
“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I encourage you to sign up for my free daily email series (in the right hand column, just below) that sends you tips, ideas or insights to the goal setting process on a regular basis, too. There’s no obligation, and it can help you deal with one of the challenges in achieving goals, which is keeping your thoughts focused on the right things (next task in your action list, productive thoughts and beliefs, etc). These daily reminders will simply encourage you to stay focused on your goal. Also, i certainly don’t sell or share your email address with anyone.
A Little Background
About 4 years ago I was at a point in my life where I needed to make a significant change, not only in career but more importantly in how I approached the things I wanted in my life. Up to that point I had relied on a good work ethic as an employee, 
but not much else in the way of planning and goal setting to intentionally guide my life. I finally decided if I was going to change my situation, I was going to have to start setting and reaching goals in all areas of my life.
After reading the research about goals, the stories of people who had reached challenging goals, reading goal setting books and listening to audio material on the subject, I compiled what I had learned into a checklist and a list of key concepts and principles. Now, four years later, I can tell you it’s changed the way I approach things significantly, and I feel better about this process than ever before. This website is one of the things that has resulted from those changes.
These Are Not My Ideas
I have to confess that many of the ideas here not are mine. At best I’ve tried to find ways to add value to the achievement process by stumbling across important concepts that work well together, or maybe some that didn’t, or hopefully by adding an insight to something that you hadn’t thought of. Mainly I’ve just included what has worked best for me. Most of what you’ll read here comes from psychology research studies, the common ideas or beliefs about goals and achievement of great men and women throughout history. As Jim Rohn says, there are no new principles. “To improve your circumstances, improve yourself” (see: Get An Education). People have been trying, succeeding and failing for thousands of years, so it makes sense that the clues to success and achievement have already been identified. I just had to find the information successful people before me relied on to achieve their goals, and that’s what I’ve used as the foundation for this website.
The Action Plan Checklist
The core of the goal setting process is the “Action Plan Checklist”, shown as a series of steps on the left side of each page. In addition to that step-by-step process, there are also plenty of other pages here that describe some of the key principles for achievement and success. Everything from goal setting tips, staying motivated, an explanation of SMART goals and the key trait of achievers is covered. But the purpose of the site is “getting it done” – achieving your goals. Go to the next page (page 2 below) for an overview of each step in the plan.
