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 like to improve. If you’ve decided that the best way to make that change 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
My Story
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 realized I needed to start setting and reaching goals in all areas of my life if I was going to change my situation.
As I set out to learn about setting and achieving goals, I had a hard time finding smart, insightful, actionable information. There were plenty of sites offering top 10 lists, quick fixes or simple solutions, but I was looking for something more substantial.
After reading the research about goals, the stories of people who had reached challenging goals, reading motivation and goal setting books and listening to goals related 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 the direction of my life 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 not many of the ideas or opinions here are mine. Most come from psychology research studies, the common ideas or beliefs about goals and achievement of great men and women throughout history, and the wisdom of leaders in this field. Basically, this is the information that successful people before me relied on to achieve their goals, and that has worked for me.
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.
