Why is Goal Setting Important? The Path to Success
Why is goal setting important, and how can you start down the path that leads to success?
Why is goal setting important, in fact critical, to your overall success, fulfillment, and happiness in life?
Without goals there can be no success. Goals are the seeds of success in any area of life, and they are a critical component of growth, development, and progress.
To illustrate the power of and importance of goals, I want to share a couple lines from the book Tha Magic of Thinking Big by Dr. David Schwartz.
The point is this: energy increases, multiplies, when you set a desired goal and resolve to work for that goal.
Many people, millions of them, can find a new energy by selecting a goal and giving all they’ve got to accomplish that goal.
Goals cure boredom. Goals even cure many chronic ailments.
Let’s probe a little deeper into the power of goals.
When you surrender yourself to your desires, when you let yourself become obsessed with a goal, you receive the physical power, energy, and enthusiasm needed to accomplish your goal.
But you receive something else, something equally valuable. You receive the “automatic instrumentation” needed to keep you going straight to your objective.
The most amazing thing about a deeply entrenched goal is that it keeps you on course to reach your target.
This isn’t double talk. What happens is this.
When you surrender to your goal, the goal works itself into your subconscious mind.
Your subconscious mind is always in balance. Your conscious mind is not, unless it is in tune with what your subconscious mind is thinking.
Without full cooperation from your subconscious mind, a person is hesitant, confused, indecisive.
Now, with your goal absorbed into your subconscious mind you react the right way automatically. The conscious mind is free for clear, straight thinking.
Goals are important all right. They give you a purpose in life, direction, a hopeful future, and the motivation needed to do the things that you need to do to make your dreams a reality.
We can either choose our futures or we can be swayed by everyday influences. Choosing where we want to go is obviously more desirable than simply wandering aimlessly.
If you want a happy, successful, purposeful life, your first duty is to decide on exactly what you want to achieve.
When the target is clear, the path will unfold before your very eyes.