There is so much literature out there about effective goal setting and goal management, that I wouldn't give good tribute to it. So I prefer to encourage you to look out there. If you want more details on effective goal settings. Yet, I wanted to make sure that I share my personal best principles that I advise on when it comes to effective goal setting. So this is going to be just a very short snapshot of the very best that I applied for myself, and that I also use during my coaching, and with everyone who is using the life compass. So I'm sure that you're familiar with these smart acronym.

Smart means. When you do any goal, it must be specific. describe it as clearly as you can. measurable. Any goal must have some way to measure if you're making progress and completing it or not. This is where you have Key Performance Indicators, really any type of measure will be fine as long as you can know that you've achieved that goal.

It must be achievable. So set yourself goals that are realistic, and that you know you can achieve relevant. Your Goals must be directly linked with your deepest values and your deepest dreams. Otherwise, you're not going to gain sufficient energy to move towards to it. And finally, time bounded, this is a really good trick for you. If you put a deadline, it can really push an add an extra level of accountability that will make you follow through your commitments.

So smart. This is really key. It's really the foundations of goal settings and I'm sure you were familiar with it already. Then the two others that I would like to bring are first of all, make sure that if you can get what you want, you will take it now say for example, that Your goal is to make a million dollars per year. If you could have it now, would you accept it? Are you actually ready right now to make it happen?

Some people aspire for certain things. But if you ask them, if you could have it now, would you take it, they're not quite sure. If that's the case, I can tell you already, you're not going to reach your goal. So make sure that whatever it is that you want, if you were able to have it right now, you would say yes, without a doubt, without any inch of hesitation. And then the other thing, which is really, really powerful, when you make goal settings and when you start committing for certain things, is to attach emotions to it. Not many people talk about this.

Yeah, but really feel what it would feel like when you accomplish this goal. What would you see what would you hear? How would you feel What would people say about you? What would you say to yourself, use all your senses, whether it's your visuals, your auditory, and your kinesthetic, how you feel. Make sure that you use all this spectrum and really project yourself on that goal. This is going to tremendously inspire you and encourage you to move towards your goal.

You can also use the opposite and reflect on what your life would be like, if you were not accomplishing that goal. What would be the impact? How would you feel? What would you say about yourself? Yeah, feel the pain of not accomplishing this goal, and vision and vision, how your life would be impacted if this was to happen. Those are really, really powerful tools.

Think about the leverage you can get from not accomplishing your goals and actually from accomplishing it. You're great about how it's going to be when you actually finish that, that crossing line of the marathon or reach that way that you wanted so much. And you're now wearing this wonderful dress that you wanted to be able to fit in. So, you know, those are small examples of how you can make a goal powerful. And then finally, something I've already mentioned is commitment. accountability.

Yes. If you really want to accomplish something, my advice is make a public commitments that you're doing it, whatever your goal is, talk about it with your friends, put it on your Facebook wall, if that's okay with you, whatever works for you, but find a way to make it public and to let others know about your intentions. It is going again to give you an extra leverage and additional pressure for you to follow through Make it real. Hey, we're human beings. Yeah, things don't happen unless we make a conscious decision to move towards what we want. This is the whole point of the life contest.

And this is the underlying principle of everything you're about to learn here. So let's take action, and then start filling in your life compass.