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Mostly people don’t set goals because they are scared to put the kind of effort that is required to achieve it but Goal Setting gives a tremendous amount of motivation in life. A goal will work automatically when there are specific, written goals making it very easy to work on. While setting goals, you need to be careful about a few of things.

Don’t set goals that are insignificant for motivating towards working on them.

Neither should you set goals that are so high that you will lose the motivation to work on it.

while setting a goal, it’s very important to be clear why the goal is important. A good strong emotional answer to that question will get all the motivation required to work on that goal. The goal may stretch you a little bit but it can be highly emotional rewarding to pursue it.

For example. If your goal is to lose weight, then why it is needed becomes an important question. Because if the answer is “I want to feel good, look good. People should say I am looking good” then it isn’t a great motivation. But if your answer is “I am going to lose weight because this way I can get out of all my all health-related issues.” Then this is a very strong emotional thought.

A lot of time I am asked this question that isn’t it more important to have a peak, or an arc concept towards a goal? But the point is even those goals need strong emotional anchor, and once you have strong emotional reasons to work on, those goals it will certainly work. When you have a nice, strong, solid goal; it signifies that the goal will actually come true.

Right now, what you could do is sit down and do three simple things-

Figure out what is an important aspect of your life, which clearly makes you feel terrific. It could be any aspect of your life.

Set goals in those areas. Start from an emotional perspective like ‘Why should I work on these goals? What will I feel like if were to achieve these goals?’

Sit and pen down a few simple steps to work on that goal. For example, if you need to lose weight, you need to get up early and start going for a walk.

The word motivation brings in together two different words ‘Motive’ and ‘Action’.         When we combine our motive with the needed action we give rise to our motivation.

Motivation is of two diverse kinds, external motivation and internal motivation. External motivation is entirely carrot-driven; the threat of loss or hope of reward – which can act as very powerful motives.

Self-motivation or internal motivation is far more important than external motivation, which is temporary and you could get completely bored, also the threat of a loss might not be prominent throughout. So, work on our internal motivation.

Work on the motivation that makes you feel, “This is internal, this is something that is dear to me, something I want to work on, which I want to achieve and this is something which is important to me.”

So now the question arises how do you now motivate yourself to work on your dream and make it come true, how do you get to that zone?

You do that in two very important ways; firstly, enjoy the process of working on your dream and every single thing that you do every single day.

Secondly, be grateful that you got a chance to work on your particular dream and to make sure that it actually comes true.

Though it is easier said than done and the question arises; “How to enjoy that particular journey that you are onto?” Pick a few people who believe in your dream and start sharing your small successes with one or two people who are very dear to you helps a lot; this increases your confidence, self-belief and will power.

We got to remember, at the end of the day it is not a question of “if the dream will come true” but “when the dream will actually happen and become a reality”. So, keep working on your dream; don’t ever give up on the power of the fact that your dream can go ahead and change the whole world. Once people around you are convinced that you have a prevailing dream and are immensely motivated about your dream; you will find people coming forward and supporting you.

Do you have a goal? And do you truly believe in it?If yes, then you should ensure that you work every day on your goal. A goal is not something that you can work on sporadically. You need to do this every day because, each day you will start achieving just that little bit; next day, a little more. Thus, with each day you actually start chipping more and more into your particular goal.

So, the question arises how do you work on your goal everyday?

To make it easier you can divide tasks into small parts and then it is smart to start off with the toughest aspect of your goal. Because, if you can complete what you think is the toughest aspect of your goal, the most difficult thing to do and then work on it; you will then motivate yourself by addressing that you are capable of perhaps the most difficult part of that particular goal.

Tracking progress is also very important because once you are getting on to that goal of yours, you need to keep tracking and figuring out how can you get what you want. So when you work on that goal work in a time that you believe that is best for yourself. You must schedule to a discipline; set a specific time, bind it with limits of time; say 6.30 to 7.00 in the morning and come what may don’t deviate from working on your goal in that time.

Tell the whole world that, this particular time is ‘My time’. This is the time that I am not going to give up or allow any distractions to happen. Some distractions, emergencies that will come your way while working on that particular time on your goal are unavoidable. But, keep track of them, figure out whether the interruption is person-based interruption or a process-based interruption. But never give up, crack out your ways, work around it and come back and work again on that particular goal. So, if your goal is to write, then you need to set aside a timeframe in which you can write every day.