To help you understand the importance of goals and to facilitate your own goal-setting, let me give you six important guidelines.
§ Your goal must include others. No goal is worthwhile that is only for yourself. Set a goal big enough to include and help other people.
§ Your goal must be worthwhile. There is no such thing as a successful frivolous goal.
§ Your goal must be clean. If you don’t know where you are headed, a map will be of no use.
§ Your goal must be measurable. You need a way to see if you are making any progress toward the goal.
§ Your goal must be expandable. Don’t set your goals in concrete. If your goal is not expandable, it’s expendable.
§ Your goals must be filled with conviction. Conviction is the unshaken confidence that the goal is worthwhile. It’s the fuel that pushes us to achieve.
