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The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime. Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making process.

To help give you a wide and balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set personal goals in some or all of the following categories:

Attitude:

Does your own mindset hold you back from making progress? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? For example, do you talk too much? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.

Career:

What level do you want to reach in your career? Is it your goal to be the boss or own your own business someday, or do you want to be the president of someone else’s company?

Creative:

Do you want to achieve any creative goals? If so, what is it? Do you want to write a book; paint a masterpiece, or write a song?

Education:

Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular or some area of study that you would like to pursue? What information and skills will you need to achieve these goals?

Family:

Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want your partner or family members to see you?

Financial:

How much do you want to earn by what age in your life? What can you do to make that come about?

Physical:

Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve? Do you want good health into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

Pleasure:

How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that some of your life is geared toward making yourself happy for no reason other than being happy

Service:

Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If so, how?

Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to assign a priority to them if you want a better chance to succeed.

Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.

Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the goals you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse, family, or employers want them to be.

Success only happens when you are working for your own well being because doing it for others will almost ensure that you will block your own success.

My next article will focus on “How to Begin to Achieve Your Goals.”

Scott Barker- EzineArticles- Expert Author

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