We all have goals we want to achieve, some of them effortless, while other goals, take time, dedication, and careful planning. Whether it’s running a full marathon, reading a book a month, or planning a dinner with friends, it can be challenge due to the demands of life.

Before you attempt any goal, here are some things that might be good to consider before starting your goals to help you achieve them.

5 Attributes to Consider for Setting and Achieving your Goals:

First step, and most critical. When setting your goal consider how you would define success. That way when you’re done, you know you’ve not only completed it, but met your objective.

When we look at the constraints to achieving the goal, they can come in all forms, mostly due to limited resources in these forms:

· Time & Money

· Support from our family, friends, and community

· Grit 

Might be a good idea to make sure you allocated enough resources to each of these constraints so you can power through to completion.

If we take the example off finishing a book once a month, making sure we set time aside each day or week to make sure we're reading our pages will help us achieve our goal more easily.

By portioning out our goals into sizable chunks, instead of waiting till the last day of the month to finish the whole book, it will make it easier for us to achieve our goals.

The most exciting part of any goal is the beginning, we have such high hopes when we are starting off, and when we reach somewhere towards the middle, things get a bit tougher, we might let the demands of life eat away at us, and dread even going back to our goals because we aren't as far along as we like. 

If we take a moment, and honestly, and I mean honestly reevaluate our current status, and ask ourselves how we are really doing,  we might be able to take another fresh look at it, and get past that hump or even find a more efficient way to achieve our goals.

Also, being in the middle of your goal, you know you’ve put a considerable amount of energy into it, so no time to quit now.

If something is not working out, you can always iterate or pivot so that you still carry on.

5) Remove Expectations, you are on your way

Often times we have ideas of how certain goals will look like, again, if for example you wanted to read a book month, or 12 in total for the year. Some months we might not have time to read a book once a month. While there could be extra time in other months where you could read 3 books in two weeks because of a planned vacation. 

Sometimes it might not look like how you think it will look, and that’s perfectly fine, you are still on your way to achieving your goal. 

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