Mindset and Goals: How to Plan and Achieve Your Goals!

William L. Davis
4 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Mindset

So now you have the goal, you need the plan. To do this, look at where you are now and then look at all the things you would need to build the life you are picturing. For instance, you might find that you need a certain amount of money to make your traveling dream happen.

In that case, you need to look at the options available to you to make that money. Or maybe you want to achieve a certain thing in your career, and you realize that you need to acquire a certain amount of experience to get there. How can you acquire said experience?

There are many similar examples of how you might go after a particular goal, but the thing to remember in every case is that you need to focus on small steps that are just ahead of you. That might mean the next small promotion. It might mean a small upgrade to your home. It might mean developing any form of small income.

With that in mind, you’re then going to break these smaller goals down even further. Now the objective is to look at the smallest possible steps that you need to take on a daily or weekly basis to get there. So if your goal is to have a body like Brad Pitt, then that smallest daily step is simple: diet and exercise.

Look around, find a training plan and a diet that works for you, and then commit to sticking to that without one flaw every day. Likewise, if your goal is to be a top novelist, your daily goal will be to write X number of words per day. Make the goals easy to accomplish but ensure that they take positive — if small — steps in the right direction.

This is the key target. This is the primary directive. You’re going to imagine that vision and let it motivate you when the times get rough. But you are going to forget anything other than the daily.

Changing Your Thinking:

So why is this change in thinking so important? The answer is that focusing too much on a distant goal will make you too detached from what it is you’re trying to accomplish. For instance, if your only ‘goal’ is to become a novelist, you lack any real structure or plan.

This is going to make it very hard for you to stick to. It’s all too easy for you to get lazy, to take shortcuts, or even forget all about it. Even if your goal is more specific and time-sensitive — such as losing 15kg in 6 months — you are still too detached from it. Why? Because a) you might still think it’s okay to skip a workout or cheat on your diet one day and then ‘put off’ the goal.

By the time you have 1 month left, and you’re still no lighter, you might give up. Or what if you stick to the plan as much as possible, but you still don’t see the results you want? How disheartening is that? So instead, the goal is the target. You focus just on the one day.

You either succeed or fail. It is entirely down to you. It’s entirely your responsibility, and no excuses cut it. But if you keep focusing on the daily targets, you will find that the overarching vision takes care of itself. It’s like building a house brick by brick or taking a journey step-by-step.

How to Take Action:

Okay then, so how exactly does one go about taking action? The answer is to come up with a plan. This is very different from a goal because it tells you exactly what you need to do. Yes, that means that you do need a goal. You have to learn the difference between a goal and a plan. You have to recognize that a goal on its own isn’t enough. And in fact, ‘goal’ is really something of a misnomer here.

What you need more than a goal is a vision. A vision is something that inspires you, and it is something that gives you the motivation and the drive. A vision is what makes you wake up in the morning. But it is also abstract. It is hard to quantify. And it is hard to know precisely how you should go about getting to the point you want to get to.
That’s where the plan comes in.

The plan bridges the gap between where you are right now and where you want to be. And the very best plans are small, they are measurable, and they are directly within your control. The best plans are usually made up of many smaller goals, each of which will represent a stepping stone toward where you eventually want to be.

Don’t worry if all this talk of goals, plans, and visions is a little complicated right now. Over the rest of this guide, we’re going to demystify what all this means, and we’re going to figure out precisely what you need to do to get to where you need to be. Discover the secret to manifesting the life you really want!

Create The Mindset To Change Your Life

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William L. Davis
William L. Davis

Written by William L. Davis

William L. Davis is the Travel adviser at Reliable Investments and loves helping people in affiliate marketing, content marketing, and how to make money online.

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