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[Guide] Your Motivation: On setting goals

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Mike Kavanagh

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I notice a lot of people are having trouble picking proper motivators. I do, my mother, and a few other people close to me also have this same problem.

So I wrote do the things I want to accomplish. How I'm going to accomplish them. Most importantly, why I want to accomplish them.

At first I had a problem being specific.
  • Never work again.
  • Buy my mother a house.
  • Help other family members out.

As you can see, generic useless bullets. No more than 5 or 6 words in the mission statement.

To remedy this I expanded with more specific goals.
  • Never work for another company or person ever again.
  • Buy my mother a large house that is paid in full.
  • Help my other family members out with medical bills, housing, etc...

Still pretty concise... I would like to expand on it further to give me a why.
  • Never work for another company again because I always give my best and greatest when I work but don't see the same efforts given back to me. In fact if I give my best it still is never good enough.
  • Buy my mother a large house so that she never has to go through being homeless with kids again. She has my little brother (7) and nephew (5) and my sick sister(cancer) to take care of. I don't want them to go through what me and my sister went through when we were kids.
  • Help my other family members with there bills if they ever get backed against a wall or injured. Most of them have been there when I needed help. I don't want to see my family struggle like they have been.

Now this is my ultimate motivation right here. These will propel me even further into my business ventures. It is why I will succeed far greater that those who doubted me in school. I have great, precise goals to push me further, to sleep less, work harder and longer to achieve them.

To write successful goals you need to be specific and you need to have a why. Otherwise you just have words.

Thanks for reading
-Mike
 
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