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The seemingly innavigable road to achieving your goals is simplified with these nine steps.

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9 Steps to Great Goal Setting

Whether you're deep in the throes of planning for 2012 or already suffering from resolution exhaustion, a goal-setting session can set you up for success in the coming year. Today, we’re borrowing from a newsletter sent by Stacey Cerniuk, a Vancouver entrepreneur who, over the past decade, has built a sizeable business placing consultants. Annex Consulting now has more than 4,000 consultants on its roster.

By Tony Wanless / January 6, 2012

Road to goals | BCBusiness
The seemingly innavigable road to achieving your goals is simplified with these nine steps.

Whether you’re deep in the throes of planning for 2012 or already suffering from resolution exhaustion, a goal-setting session can set you up for success in the coming year.

Today, we’re borrowing from a newsletter sent by Stacey Cerniuk, a Vancouver entrepreneur who, over the past decade, has built a sizeable business placing consultants. Annex Consulting now has more than 4,000 consultants on its roster.

Stacey didn’t get there by accident. He has been a life-long goal setter and learner, and has applied everything he’s learned.

Here are Stacey’s Nine Steps To Goal Setting.

Step 1: Find a quiet place

Focus and concentration are required, so schedule some time in your favourite “thinking” place.

Step 2: Understand the ground rules

Each goal should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound). You’ve heard it before, but this time do it. Vagary doesn’t make it.

Step 3: Define goals

Think about what must happen in the next 12 months in the seven main areas of life (personal, health and fitness, relationships, business and career, financial, fun, contribution) to make you feel that the year was a good one.

Step 4: Write down your goals

Record your goals in whatever format you prefer – i.e., a goals notebook, Word, Excel, the notepad on your phone, etc.

Step 5: Share your goals

Research shows that if you share your goals with people close to you, it provides extra motivation to achieve them.

Step 6: Review your goals

Review your goals regularly. Keep copies of them everywhere so you are constantly seeing them and reminding yourself.

Step 7: Take action

When you identify and write down your priorities every day, make sure to include tasks that will move you closer toward your goals. High achievers take action daily to reach goals.