Before I get into showing you some results that Ken McArthur’s Impact Action Team accomplished over the weekend out in Long Beach California. I want to give you some good content on how you can set your own goals and how you can make sure you achieve them.
I want to make sure that if you set yourself a goal that you feel the sense of Victory that the Impact Action Team felt this past weekend as we reached out and accomplished the goals we set as a team.
What is a Business Goal?
A goal is a statement that clearly describes actions to be taken or tasks to be accomplished by a company, a department or an individual. You will ultimatly have a number of goals, each describing a desired future condition toward which your efforts and the efforts of the team will be directed. If the goals are accomplished, then the business should be a success.
The Impact Action Team had several different players taking part in reaching our goal. We all had specific goals within the big picture goal that individuals and individual teams were responsible for completing. We each had specific instructions to help us reach our goals. By each individual and each team meeting their specific goals the whole team accomplished success.
Without a goal you will find yourself accomplishing very little. You will also not notice that you are accomplishing anything. You need to set good measurable goals so that you can actually see that you are making steps towards the big picture goal.
Remember this point: They are your goals and you need to design it to fit you and your business. Success is not one-size-fits-all and your goals will be unique to you and your business.
Goal setting has 2 basic purposes:
The first purpose is to establish a measure or a way to evaluate the success of your business. Whatever you do you must be able to track it and make sure that it is on track to your success.
The second purpose of your business goal is set different priorities for all involved. You need to decide who will be accountable for the accomplishments of each goal you set.
For example: You will need to decide who will be responsible for each aspect of the project. Who will write the e-book, who will do the videos, who is going to make sure the copy gets done and so forth.
Your business goals need to be challenging. You need to set goals that will require some effort to reach.
Don’t make them so challenging that they are not obtainable, because that will lead to failure. You need
to challenge everyone that is involved and responsible for its achievement. On the other hand if you make
them so easy that it takes no effort to accomplish, do you see this as giving you a sense of accomplishment?
There has to be some challenge involved to give you that sense of “I DID IT” Your business goal needs to say what is going to be done. It needs to be Task-oriented. A business goal must state what is to be accomplished as clearly as possible. Leave no room for confusion for those involved.
Effective goals use action-oriented words like, How we will implement this plan, How will we establish our advertising is working, how will we make sure that the product is the right product for our market, etc.
Your goal needs to be very specific. You must state exactly what is required from each one that is involved.
If the goal you set will lead you to a 6 figure business in one year then you need to clearly say that if we
follow this goal we will be a six figure business in one year.
Examples of Goals you can set:
Create an online Internet Marketing Business that will deliver high quality products to my customers. To find the products that my customers want to buy.
Create a Web site for my product that my customers can easily find. To make it a pleasurable experience once they land on my site. A website that is fast, easy to navigate.
Create a good relationship with my list of subscribers that have chosen to opt-in so that they become responsive buying customers.
Put in place a management structure and work with Joint Venture partners to accomplish my goals more efficiently, and more profitably.
Out of those 4 goals I just mentioned what is missing in them?
Let me know by leaving me a comment.
To your Success
Jeff
I would like to show you some of the results that the IMPACT Action team accomplished while at Brendon Burchard’s Life’s Golden Ticket event out in Long Beach California.
This was done by setting measurable goals and then taking the action required to meet our goals. In this case we did not know what the exact outcome of our goal would be but we reached the goal of creating Impact and getting one person’s message out that was struggling to get noticed in this massive noisy world.
Watch our video right now.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1939756148267840574&hl=en
I want to leave you with one last thing that I heard Brendon Burchard say this past weekend that was to me the most powerful statement I heard.
“Life is not about what we can get…it is about what we can give, It’s not about competing, it’s about contributing; Its not about the applause, it’s about putting your hands together for others.” —– Brendon Burchard
When you are setting your goals keep that statement in the forefront of your mind. When you reach your goals will the end result lead you to be able to give to others in amazing ways that you may not be able to do right now? If not please set goals that will lead you to be able to really give back to others. All along the way what is it that you can give back from the results you received!
I also want you to know this…YOU HAVE MAGIC WITHIN YOU!
