You should set goals so that you have something to measure your success by. If my goal is to score at least 300 VersaPoints per month that's pretty easy to achieve. I need to set more ambitious goals than that. If my goal is to become a Platinum Team Leader that may be even a little too ambitious if I just became an EA. It is possible though. Goals always should at least be possible. Ideally, they are possible, practical AND inspiring.
That is why you can have photos of your goals now. Having a photo of your dream car or dream house might inspire you to make the extra effort to reach your long term goals. You get there through a series of short term goals. If your progress to a goal can be measured it might by called an objective. Objectives used to be very fashionable in management - because they worked.
The key to making the SFI goals program work for you, and one you should be quite prepared to ask your upline for help with, is chaining the short term goals towards a long term goal. I have this ambitious goal, X. How best can I come up with short term goals a, b, c... to get me to X. Sometimes it is a lot easier to see the pattern needed in someone else's goals than your own.
Don't mix up routines, tasks, and goals. I have a routine where I check out my home page first thing every day. My task is to generate at least 10 points. My goal is to acquire at least 300 points per month through this activity. Some months I do not achieve this goal because I wasn't able to perform this task every day.
This whole thing might be part of a larger goal: let no potential VersaPoint go un-generated in any month. I need all the points I can get to reach my even larger goal: get to the Bronze Leader level. Even this is a sub-goal: qualify for matching points. After all, if the over-arching goal is to maximize one's potential SFI income, I have to succeed in the matching points component. (I have to do a lot else besides).
When should I set my goals? Use them as beginnings - the beginning of the year, quarter, month, on your birthday - any suitable "resolution" day. When should I review my goals? At the end of each and every day. What did I do (or not do) today to achieve my SFI goals? What goals should I set for tomorrow (That's the goal I'm going to put in to the SFI home page to get my daily goalsetting point from SFI).
There's a second, essential part to this next-day goal-setting routine. Pull up your calendar and your to-do list. Fill in your tasks (not goals) for the next day. Never go to sleep with the next day an undefined mish-mash of unplanned wishes.
Even if you are not a morning person (and I am most definitely not), beng able to start the next day on the tasks you have planned towards the goals you have planned, really will help you achieve them.
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You should set goals so that you have something to measure your success by. If my goal is to score at least 300 VersaPoints per month that's pretty easy to achieve. I need to set more ambitious goals than that. If my goal is to become a Platinum Team Leader that may be even a little too ambitious if I just became an EA. It is possible though. Goals always should at least be possible. Ideally, they are possible, practical AND inspiring.
That is why you can have photos of your goals
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