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Goal Achievement Steps

Effluo Goal Planning Framework

Goal Achievement Framework

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Goal Achievement Steps Overview

The most important step in goal setting is identifying the reasons for achieving the goals. 

Identify that the goals you are setting are truly your goals and if they are not in conflict with your other goals.
Next identify the reasons for completing the goal.

Finally describe what you want to complete and why you want to complete the goal.
Write down what the completed goal would look like.

Review How To Set Goals and 100 Top Inner Goals Examples [Marcus Aurelius]

If you have more than one goal you are planning to pursue, prioritize these goals.

Are you going to be pursuing them simultaneously or one after the other?
Be realistic when setting new goals and give yourself ample time for completion. 
Confucius warned us against rushing things, “If you rush things, you won’t reach your goal”.

Rene Descartes taught the importance of breaking down big goals into manageable steps.  No matter how big the goal may seem, it can always be divided into smaller steps.   

Even when you have a goal that may take years to achieve, you can break it down into smaller three month intervals and pursue it one step at a time.

Insights from Historical Figures

When setting goals ask yourself

  1. Why do I want to complete this goal?
  2. Is this truly my goal?
  3. Is my goal fair to everyone concerned?

Once set

  • Do not hurry and think through everything as you are completing it.
  • Task completion is different from goal achievement, focus on the goal.
  • Do not get distracted on the way to achieving your goal.
  • If needed, adjust the steps towards the goal achievement.
  • Use role models in your life, find character traits you admire to imitate
  • Do everything with a purpose 
  • Change is good, embrace it
  • Follow the example of time, stay away from quick fixes
  • Know the right time to begin your goals
  • Measure the outcomes and not time spent on achieving the goal
  1. Accept nothing as true unless you proved it beyond doubt = Think Big and Set Goals
  2. Divide problems into smaller parts = Divide the Goals Into Achievable Steps
  3. Solve problems by moving from simple to difficult = Prioritize and Complete These Steps
  4. Recheck the reasoning = Reflect and Review

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Goal Achievement Quotes

Those whose care extends not far ahead will find their troubles near at hand
Confucius
If a person does not plan and prepare for the future,
he must be beset by worries and troubles very soon.
Confucius
When your paths [dao] are different, there is no point in seeking advice from one another.
Confucius
If you work for your own selfish ends, you will make many enemies
Confucius
Don’t try to rush things. Don’t look to small gains. If you rush things, you won’t reach your goal. If you look to small gains, you won’t be able to accomplish the important tasks.
Confucius
There must be a lot to see along the byways, but do not wander off, because you might get bogged down if you have to journey a long way. This is why the gentleman does not take the byways.
Confucius
Let no act be done without a purpose
Marcus Aurelius
It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to continue in the same manner during consequences of change.
Marcus Aurelius
Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of the business.
Francis Bacon
There is surely no greater wisedome then well to time the beginnings and onset of things.
Francis Bacon
It were good therefore that men in their Innovations would follow the example of Time itselfe: which indeed Innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Francis Bacon
.. The minde of man is more cheared, and refreshed by profiting in small things, then by standing at a stay in great.
Francis Bacon
The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.
Rene Descartes
The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.
Rene Descartes
The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.
Rene Descartes
And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.
Rene Descartes

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