In this article, we will look into the importance of setting daily goals and how to create goals that help you achieve success.
Benefits of Setting Daily Goals
The subconscious is brilliant at prioritizing. It listens to you and gauges from your thoughts what you think is the most important task. This means that what you think about most of the time is what the subconscious will think is the most important thing for you, and will try to find creative solutions. If you think about problems, the subconscious will try to find more problems for you. If you think about solutions, goals, and dreams, it will try to make them come true. However, the subconscious goes even further when trying to understand what you think is important; it “listens” to your feelings. It is enough to be positive and keep your thoughts on what you want, and you don’t have to go monitoring your thoughts all the time. It is enough to imbue your thoughts a few times a day with a powerful positive emotion when thinking about your goals. The more you can do it, the more powerful this exercise will be. For many, reading their goals or making plans becomes a chore, something that fills them with negative emotions. This ruins the full potential of these activities; filling yourself with positive emotions while thinking about your goals will make them a lot more powerful. With daily goals, you’re also much less likely to fall into procrastination. If you find that you struggle with this, check out Lifehack’s Fast-Track Class: No More Procrastination.
How to Set Daily Goals for Yourself
Over the last several years, I have been taught several exercises that can help you focus more on your goals and spend more time thinking about and feeling about them. What I want you to remember when doing these exercises is to have fun. Never see them as a chore—you are living your goals, and it is something to enjoy. If you don’t feel uplifted at the thought of focusing on your goals, you might as well not do the exercise today. Do it tomorrow instead because it will do more harm than good if you are in the wrong mood when thinking about your goals. You can learn more about the art of setting goals here: In my business, I constantly need to come up with new ways to improve efficiency, new ideas to test, and new subjects to teach. It takes a lot of creative work, and creative work has always been one of my weaker areas. Every day, I get new ideas of things I can try out, products I can create, seminar subjects I can offer, and so on. All of them aren’t good, but when you throw enough mud against the wall, something will stick. And that is what my subconscious does—it feeds me idea after idea. The method I use is also used by countless thousands around the world, and for everyone who has tried it, the effects have been incredible:
1. Write Down Your Daily Goals
Each morning, take a pen and a piece of paper and write down your 10 top goals. Don’t look at the day before; just think about what you want most, and write them down.
2. Use the Present Tense
Remember to write each goal in the positive present tense, and set a deadline for each goal, just like you do when setting your long term and short term goals. For example, you could set the goal, “I make 10,000 dollars per month in 2022.”)
3. Be Consistent
Do this for all 10 goals, and do it every day. With this habit, your mind will get used to having goals to work on. In the beginning, writing down 10 goals might be difficult. Each day, they might look a bit different, and some of the goals you write never come back again. If you forget a goal, it is because it wasn’t all that important and something more important has taken its place.
What Difference Does It Make?
By starting your day setting your 10 top daily goals, you jump-start your creativity, which will motivate you for the rest of the day. You will have programmed yourself to focus on your goals and to move towards them and their completion.
What Will Happen to You?
If you do this, you will start to realize what is important to you. You’ll see which goals keep surfacing and which goals vanish. You will know what you want, and you will find yourself presented with opportunities that you haven’t noticed before. You will be more creative in finding ideas and chances to make your dreams reality.
The Bottom Line
Having goals on a daily basis can change your life for the better. It will help you keep moving faster and faster towards your big goals and dreams.Set your goals and make having daily goals your good habit: What’s next after setting your goals? Create a routine that will keep you stay on track with your larger goals and aspirations. Once you do this, nothing will be able to stop you.
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