Help your business startup today: Set goals
It’s good to have daily goals. They add up to support your weekly, monthly, annual & life goals. One of my goals today … Goal setting!!
I received an e-Newsletter this morning from my friend Kevin Binion and the lead article was titled “Learning How To Win”. He described an Xbox gaming experience he had with his son and nephew where the youngsters were dancing with jubilation when they scored a touchdown against Kevin in the last 2 minutes of the game. The final score was Kevin 57 the kids 7 but the fact that the boys had made progress was cause for severe celebration!
Starting a business is a lot like that. You need those celebrations of early small scores to keep you going in the face of the adversity you’ll face as you grow toward profitability. We have to set milestones that will ultimately add up to victories.
And a milestone doesn’t always have to be a quantitative number. You’ll want to identify specific measurable goals that you can score yourself against, for sure, but sometimes something as simple as going after it every day over a period of time is just as valuable. Hey, it worked for Lou Gehrig and then Cal Ripken.
Of course Lou & Cal had other goals that they set & reached to get them to Cooperstown, baseball’s Hall of Fame, but it all started with a commitment at the most basic level – be prepared to play every single day.
So as I do the homework & research to identify and proclaim my StartupNation goals today, I’ll start with today’s goal ….
Set goals.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Joel - I couldn’t agree with you any more. Setting goals is a major key to success in life and business.
There are four ways that goals help us get what we want, do what we want, and be who we want. Edwin Locke, a leading authority on goal setting, established the following model of goal-setting motivation.
[b]1. Goals give us focus.[/b] Without them, we can be distracted more easily.
[b]2. Goals get us going.[/b] Goals not only serve as beacons for our attention, but they motivate us to act.
[b]3. Goals add to our resolve.[/b] Persistence is key to accomplishing what we want to do. Without goals, we may find ourselves being persistent at low-priority activities.
[b]4. Goals lead to actions.[/b] Once a person sets a goal, a plan for action is the natural next step. Action plans outline "how" an individual plans to achieve or accomplish the goal.
It has been proven that we can accomplish more and go farther if we dedicate ourselves to written goals, keep them on our corporate and personal radar screens, and follow through on the steps required to make them happen.
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