The Power Of Goal-Setting
"If you are not making the progress you would like to and are
capable of making,it's simply because your goals are not clearly
defined," Paul J. Meyer.
To be successful,not only you must set goals, they must be
specific and well defined as well. The is one of the essential
principles of goalsetting.
Goal-setting is being considered as the greatest of all success
techniques!
Andrew Carnegie ,multi-millionaire philanthrophist and builder
of 43 millionaires of his time was an omnivorous reader as soon
as he first learned to read.He loved to read the biography about
successful and rich men.He quickly observed that most successful
men made a habit of writing down goals and striving for
them.This.he concluded that is the secret of success.
He once did a survey on his employees to find out how many of
them wrote down goals and aimed at them.This was what he did as
follows:
He thought up a questionaire of 15 questions so worded to make
them think he wanted their suggestions and opinions.Some of the
questions were:
How long have you been working here? what motivated you to work
for us? Are you satisfied with your salary and working
environment? Do you have any suggestions for improving
conditions,or improving the company? Are you earning enough
money for the work you do in your opinion? Do you make enough
money to take good care of your family? Etc. 15 of them.
But among the 15 questionaires was this one,the only one he was
interested in.It was: Do you have the habit of writing down
goals and working to reach them?
When he received the questionaires, he asked his accountants to
separate the "yes" sheets from the "no"sheets.There were 226 Yes
sheets and 3572 No sheets.
Then he checked the earnings of each employee.The 226 Yes sheets
were among the 10% of the highest earners in the company.The No
sheets were among the 90% of the lowest earners.
After the test,he confessed to them about his trick and
explained he did it to convince them to become GOAL SETTERS!Did
it paid off?
The overall production of his steel plant increased tremendously
and hundreds started goal-setting.Many of them made a fortune
working in his company.In fact, 43 of them became millionaires!
So,goal-setting....is the greatest, most valuable and most
useful of all success techniques! Napoleon Hill placed
goal-setting(in his description-Definiteness of Purpose) as the
number one of the 17 success principles he laid down in the Law
of Success.
Remember always-the one common characteristic that all
successful people share is that they have their goals and their
lives OUTLINED IN WRITING! On the other hand,"most people aim at
nothing in life....and hit it with amazing accuracy." Which do
you decide? Be a life goal-setter!
Set your well defined goals for 2006 and beyond!