12 KEYS TO SUCCESS – You Must Have A Clear Goal (8)

Another important key that you will need if you want to succeed in your life. You must have a clear goal in your life. If you’ve read until now, maybe you will think that this key is more important than other keys. But like I said, the order of which key comes first is not important. All these 12 Keys to Success are equally important; you will need them if you want to succeed in your life.

I know that many of you already knew about this key, you always heard successful people saying that you must a goal; you must set your goal, etc. Yes, indeed, without a goal, you cannot achieve anything. Now, if you’re reading this article, means that you’ve the interest to succeed in your life. The main reason you are here reading this article and read until this point is because you have the thought of wanting to be successful in your life. Therefore you see, everything happens for a reason, if you don’t have the thought or the goal, you will not do all these things, you won’t be reading this article by now. Only if you have a clear goal, your goals will lead you and tell you what to do.

Well, the goals you set must be clear. Let me gives you some examples here, of what a clear goal means. A clear goal is something that you can achieve, the more tangible, the better. If you have a goal like this “I want to be rich in two years”, it is not clear enough. Because you never state that how much is it that you want to
make. For some people, rich means having $1 million, and for some people, having $10k is considered rich. So you must set clear goals for yourself, the clearer the goal you have, the easier it can be achieved.

When we are small, our goals are crystal clear. Try to ask a child, what he wanted to be after he had grown up. Straight away, he will tell you “I want to be a doctor”; “I want to be an engineer”. But after we grew up, our goals became very blur. If you don’t believe this, you can try to ask your friend. And you will get something like “Well, it depends”, “I want to be successful”, “I want to live a happy life”. These are all the blurry goals you may get. The time we grew up, we’ve been exposing to the negative environment that changes our mindset.

Have you ever heard someone said that he wanted to go for vacation? But he ended up going nowhere. Why? Because his goal is not clear enough. If you said that you wanted to go for a vacation, you must know where is it that you wanted to go. If you wanted to go to Malaysia, did you know that Malaysia is big and where do you want to set foot? Your goal should be like this, “I wanted to go to Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia, I’m ready to spend $5,000 for this trip, I will stay there for 7 days and 6 night, etc”.

This is a clear goal. Even if you say that you want to buy a BMW, you must specific the model, the colour and other features. Only then it can be considered a clear goal, and can be achievable.

Did you know why successful people set clear goals? It is because they know that clear goals will lead them to the strategies that they use to achieve the things that they want. What I mean here is that, the goals you set are going to determine what kind of strategies you will use to achieve your goals.

If you set your goal as to make $10,000 a year in internet marketing, then the strategies that you can use are like you can get involve in affiliate marketing, online auctions etc. But if you set your goal as to make $10 million in a year, is this possible? Yes, this is possible! The strategies that you are going to use are completely different from making $10,000 a year. What you can be doing is that you can create a loyalty system and sell licensing, and you can also apply for IPO and list your company in the market. This will increase your capital and you can make $10 million in a year.

The process here is not the point; I know that these are not as easy as it sounds. The point I want to stress here is that the goals you set are going to determine what kind of strategies you are going to use. Hence, it is the goals that you set are going to determine how you should live your life.

This is what you should be doing as well, you should always write down your goals and plans. If you don’t write them down, they will remain as dreams. You must write down your goals often and write them in somewhere that you can always see. This will remind you that you still have goals to pursue, thus, they will focus and drive you into action.

Hence, you know the importance of having clear goals now. Keep this key together with you. When you are down, frustrated, take out this key again, and remind yourself about your goal. It will give you a lot of energy in your journey to succeed; you will need this key a lot.