Great Goal Setting Articles

January 12, 2007 by Gleb Reys

Welcome back!

I’ve read quite a few absolutely great articles on goal setting in the past week or so, and would like to present a short list of them for your and my own future reference.

John Richardson has recently posted two articles on goal setting on his Success Begins Today blog:
- Goals: Create The Gallery of Your Life – in this article you are presented with an idea of making (drawing or composing from someone else’s images and photos) ideal images of your achieved goals. Visualizing your success is a great help on its own, but when you have an image symbolizing this vision it’s even better!
- Paint by Number Goals is a follow-up to the first article, and it gives you options of painting by numbers – there are always easier ways to reach your goals because someone has already drawn the necessary lines and all you have to do is just follow the path.

Scott H Young has posted an Effective Goal Setting guide, showing how aggressive goal setting could harm by forcing you to lose sight of the bigger picture. He gives advices on when you should go for more goals, and when it’s probably time for you to relax a bit.
I’ve picked two posts by Steve Pavlina:
- Setting Your Primary Focus – a very useful skill to master is to learn how to identify and set your primary focus.
- Achieving Goals By Improving Your Character – very interesting article on asking yourself questions to identify what you can improve in your character to obtain better results. As usual, Steve gives you all the necessary pointers.
OnlyOneMike gives you 3 reasons Why You Must Have Goals, which seem more like benefits, not reasons. If you’re looking for an extra motivation before you get started with your goal setting you should definitely read this article.
Glen from LifeDev thinks Goal Setting Should Be Razor Sharp: they should be clear and simple enough, yet have enough focus to be attainable.

That’s all for now. Not sure if I’m going to be updating this post or will have a separate section created for goal-setting links, but these few links should be enough for today in any case. Hope you find them useful, and if you can thing of some more – please let me know by leaving a comment.

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9 Responses to “Great Goal Setting Articles”

Scott Young on January 12th, 2007 6:29 am

Thanks for the link Gleb!
Gleb Reys on January 12th, 2007 2:07 pm

Hey Scott,

Thanks for your great article! :)
Greg Butler on January 12th, 2007 7:37 pm

I too was struck by the Steve Pavlina article on character. But it takes character to be able to be that honest with one’s self, and not just make excuses. Thanks for the resources. You have a great looking site.
Gleb Reys on January 14th, 2007 9:43 pm

Thanks, Greg!

You’re absolutely right, you need to both be conscious and strong to be honest and change.

As for the design, I’ll be applying a different theme soon enough, so hope you’ll like it even more! :)
Benoit on January 15th, 2007 6:29 am

Hi Gleb :)

Thanks for taking the time to add a list of goal setting articles. I personally feel that specifying goals clearly is very important. Sometimes I personally in the past have decided on goals for the new year that were too vague and too broad. After a month or so into the year, it was hard for me to pin down how close or how far away I was from achieving my goals.

By the way, based on the categories that you have listed, I plan on visiting your site again. I have just recently started my own blog on personal and financial development. Feel free to visit anytime :)

Benoit
Gleb Reys on January 15th, 2007 1:11 pm

Thanks for your comment, Benoit!

Goals need to be simple yet accurate, otherwise it will be just like you said – hard to see whether you’ve reached them or not.

Good luck with your new blog!
Nigel on September 22nd, 2009 11:03 pm

Great Blog!

It is amazing the number of Goal Setting Techniques people use! I have been in sales for as long as I can remember, and personally use Brian Tracy’s Ten Goal Method,

Have you come across this?

Nigel
Andy and Maggie on March 19th, 2010 4:38 am

Hey Gleb!! We just ran across your blog and we wanted to tell you that you’re awesome. We love what you’re doing here. Maggie wants to add that she thinks you’re pretty cute but maybe you should change up the hairstyle to something a little bit crazier. Take a risk, you know what I mean? ;)
Gleb Reys on May 11th, 2010 5:39 pm

Andy & Maggie, thanks for the comment and for the reminder – must update my photo ;) The pic was old when I posted it, but it’s like 5 years old now! :)