Achieving Personal Goals – The Key to Achievement
Welcome to Achieving Personal Goals!
If you’re like me (and most of the visitors to this page) there’s something in your life that you’re not completely happy with, something you want to change, or an area in your life that you’d like to improve. I know how you feel, and that’s exactly why I created this website.
My Story
About 4 years ago I was at a point in my life where I wanted (and 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 more about setting and achieving goals, I had a hard time finding what I thought was smart, insightful, straight-forward information. There were lots of sites offering simplified top 10 lists, quick fixes or simple solutions, but that wasn’t the substance I was looking for.
After reading the research about goals, the stories of people who had reached challenging goals, and reading 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 me significantly and I feel better about this process than ever before.
These Are Not My Ideas
I have to confess that not many of the ideas or opinions here are my 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 are working for me, and I wanted to bring those steps and resources into one place where anyone else who wanted to could use them.
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 articles that describe some of the key principles that seem to form the foundations for achievement and success. Everything from goal setting tips and an explanation of SMART goals, to the key trait of achievers and ideas about how to stay motivated are covered. But the purpose of the site is “getting it done” – achieving your goals. Go to the next page (link for page 2 below) for an overview of each step in the plan.
