Creating Your Reality Through Strategic Goal Setting

In this conversation Pat gives an overview of strategic goal setting tools and techniques that you can use to move your dreams into reality.
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
This quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, is startlingly true in its direct simplicity. Lack of planning is the reason why so many of you don’t feel like you are getting anywhere despite your hard work.
You are like a mouse running haphazardly through a maze. While you might hit your target, success is not guaranteed and a lot of your time and energy is wasted in the process. The fact is you have not taken the time to think about what you really want and set concrete goals and action plans to achieve your dreams.
Why is strategic goal setting important?
Setting strategic goals helps you narrow your focus to what you really want to go for in life. And establishing actions plans for achieving those goals helps you focus your time and be more mindful of distractions like television, surfing the web or other people’s whims.
For many of you, the process of setting strategic goals and establishing and sticking to action plans may be unfamiliar or feel overwhelming. How and where do you begin?
Pat’s book The Go Getter’s Guidebook is a great place to start. It is a motivational jumping off point full of inspiring calls to action and ways to approach goals. It includes specific suggestions on what someone can do to make the changes necessary to being creating the life they want.