Thursday 4 April 2013

Why You Should Use Goal Setting Software

By Patricia E. Beeson


There are a number of goal setting software programs available in the market today and below are 5 reasons I believe you should seriously consider looking into them:Clarity Is Power,To paraphrase personal development guru Brian Tracy "Clarity accounts for 80% of success and happiness". The number one reason most people don't achieve their goals is that they are not clear on what they want.They think they know what they want,But it's not until they go through the rigorous questions built into a decent goal setting software program will they really get clear on their outcome. And it is with this clarity that comes the power to achieve goals. Knowing exactly what you want, what it will look like and making sure its your goal and not someone else's is half the battle.
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There are several current offerings for personal goal setting software. Some are nothing more than day timers with a lot of functions. For instance, my preferred daytimer, Time & Chaos, has a lot of functions that will allow you to setup and track your goals. However, like Outlook and other similar software products, these are not true goal setting software tools.Personal goal setting software needs to have several functions to be truly useful in moving you forward.First, you need to have a way of setting and easily reviewing your goals, as well as a way to generate an action plan to move you toward achievement of the goals. In truth, the best software is really about goal achievement.Second, the software should enable you to list and track your to dos, so that in a sense it functions as a bit of a day timer. It should also allow you to track your time and jot down additional thoughts related to your progress on your goals and the discoveries and lessons you make along the way.

Just imagine how powerful it would be to have a weight loss goal and combine that with a software that tracks your weight loss on a weekly basis.That is what a good goals software program will do for you.Inside World, Outside Reality.The power of visualisation! Visualisation has been around for centuries.. it has even been said that the Egyptians, when royalty was born, would start work on their tomb. And on the walls they would put images of all the amazing things that they would want the person to achieve in his life.

Goal setting software is more than a day timer. It helps you set goals properly, it allows you formulate supporting habits, and it helps you track your progress on the goals you have set. In the end, such software should help you reach your goals, not just dream about reaching them.In today's high speed and high tech society, it appears that there is software being developed to do almost every task imaginable. We are constantly on the lookout for software which helps us carry out repetitive or time consuming tasks more efficiently.

In today's high speed and high tech society, it appears that there is software being developed to do almost every task imaginable. We are constantly on the lookout for software which helps us carry out repetitive or time consuming tasks more efficiently.Goal setting software is just one of those which have become a lot more popular in recent years and will continue to do so.

All types of software if used correctly should make life easier for the user. After all the very purpose of creating the software in the first place is (hopefully) to help you achieve an objective quicker and more consistently than you would have otherwise done manually.Goal setting software offers goal setters a central location on which to record all goal setting tasks, whilst at the same time delivering an accurate feedback and monitoring process. For instance most goal setting software will help guide the user step by step through the goal setting process and will more than likely include a system which prohibits the user from skipping necessary exercises or activities.

Yes a person can make a change without writing down their goals but if they use goal setting software especially an interactive one then goal setting is that much easier.Good goal setting software should have guidelines and other help so that a person can who is using it to actually set up, define and carry through on a goal can use it for assistance for guidance and for support too. If it has tips for goal setting it makes it that much easier to set up some goals and actually achieve them.

In my opinion the key advantage to using goal software is the fact that you can keep everything in the one place, where it is organised and categorised correctly at all times.Most goal setting software is extremely intuitive to use and if you are familiar with using modern software packages such as Microsoft word and excel, you will have no problem quickly becoming proficient in using it.

For it to be effective it has to be reachable and be an improvement over what it was before. So if you plan to eat sugar all day Saturday then this is only a substitution for what you were consuming during the week and it is not a valid goal. Simply shifting the activity around is not setting a goal and achieving it. So in the case of reducing sugar consumption you would also need something to reach like to reduce your dress size by 1 size or to have a better body fat ratio. It has to be something that you can reach by taking the action.

This is as preposterous as a wannabe artist throwing away a particular brush as it didn't make him a better artist, or a wannabe chef complaining that his pots and pans hadn't helped him become a world class chef.Goal software can be a remarkable tool and a tremendously powerful one, however only if used in conjunction with self discipline and will power.You MUST however develop the habits, actions, behaviour and mindset of a successful person first. If you don't do this, you will find that no goal setting software on the planet will help you.So before you run to order your software, sit down and establish if you are taking action on the basics, if not then you should delay your purchase until you feel you have the relevant mindset and success habits




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