The Importance Of Having A Deadline: Goals without deadlines are merely just dreams. If you do not have a deadline, your goal will never happen. Think about everything important in life that happens, happens as a result of having a goal coupled with a deadline. These are things like getting an an A on a final exam in school, meeting a marketing deadline for your corporation, or losing a certain amount of weight before your wedding day. If you do not have a deadline you have no motivating reason to work on your goals each day. Having a deadline for your goals works best when you have a deadline that is relatively soon. This could mean something in the range of meeting that goal in the next 2 to 3 months. This will give you just enough time to build momentum and change your habits in order to get results. But it is not so far in the future, like one year, where you can easily get distracted and get discouraged because you do not see the results as quickly as you would like. Obviously having a deadline is not going to work for the actual end result of these goals because you have 20 years to work on them. But you can set a deadline in relation to daily habits. Once you set your daily habit in to motion all it takes is time in order for you to achieve your goals. Try setting goals that have deadlines that you must meet and the next 2 to 3 months and write down what actions you need to take each day in order to make those goals happen.

Habit Driven Goals vs Results Oriented Goals: I like to use at the habit driven goals vs. results oriented goals. Result oriented goals are typically more advanced in nature. Let’s say your goal is to build more lean muscle on your body, and you are already working out regularly. In order to accomplish this goal you realize the need to eat more meat. Any results oriented goal would be focused on how much lean muscle mass you were able to put on over the next 2 to 3 months. Result oriented goals work great for people. But you should only set these goals after you mastered the ability to change your daily habits in order to achieve those goals. So rather than having a goal of adding a certain amount of muscle mass in the next 2 to 3 months I would first master of the ability to consume a certain amount of protein each day in order to achieve that goal. Not only our goals not achieved if there is no deadline, but goals are not achieved as you do not develop the habits on a daily basis and order to achieve those goals. If you do not have good habits you will never achieve your goals and the same way that if you do not have a deadline you’re not achieve your goals.If you are set on setting results oriented goals, start working backwards and figure out what habits you need to change on a daily basis in order to achieve those goals, and then start making a goal to change your habits. Once you change daily habits, your goals will happen almost automatically without you even trying. In my experience it’s much easier to set and achieve habit oriented goals instead of trying to achieve results oriented goals.

Writing Goals Down: The people that I see in the gym who are able to change their body the most are people that usually bring a small notebook or workout sheet with them. They are meticulously scribbling notes down during their entire workout routine. These are people that have mastered writing goals down to get results. You see these people in the gym have earned their right to be able to set results oriented and goals. Why? Because most people can’t even develop the habit of going into the gym on a daily basis to begin with. If you don’t write your goals down on the computer or in a notebook it’s most likely that you’ll forget about your goals and what daily habits you need to achieve those goals. Personally I like to write goals down, and refer to them every single day by reading them out loud or reading them silently. Then I like to figure out what daily habits I need to incorporate as a discipline in order to achieve a specific goal within a certain amount of time. Remember that how to achieve goals that is something that is very personal and is going to a require tremendous amount of daily discipline on your part. But once you develop a habit as a lifestyle you can achieve any goal you set for yourself as long as give yourself enough time.