Set Small Achievable Goals
Most people have a grand goal for their website or blog. They all ultimately want it to end up somewhere and want to do something with it. For this vision to be achieved, what you need to do is not aim for that larger goal you have set.
I know you all think right now that I’m crazy, but I swear I’m not. What I mean is instead of aiming for the grand goal, aim for multiple smaller goals that can help build up parts of that grand goal.
By setting these small goals, you find yourself achieving more success quickly and really building up to your main objective more quickly than you would if you just tried to simply go for the main goal all at once.
If you gun for the main goal right away, it can take a long time to get there, and you may not see results right off the bat. On the other hand, if you break your main goal into many achievable smaller goals, you will see results a lot faster and get to your goal more quickly.
The reason for this is the smaller goals can be completed a lot more quickly. Most small goals can be worked on achieved quickly allowing you to go on to the next smaller goal. This allows you to fully complete a goal and move on in no time.
So, instead of having a bunch of stuff half finished, lying around all adding up to the bigger goal, you are completing small streamlined goals that really help add up to your bigger goal.
You can also see the return off the smaller goals more quickly. You can use these results as a motivator to push you to complete more of these goals. While for a larger goal you may only see a small return (or no return), until the end of the project, with smaller goals the immediate return is exactly that, immediate.
For example, if I want to get 1,000 organic search engine visits a day to a website, I may have a few keywords I want to target to get there. Instead of trying to target all the terms at once, if I break them down and target one term at a time, I will have an easier time ranking for that term and build to my ultimate goal of 1,000 organic search visits a day.
Remember, these smaller goals must be achievable. If your “small” goals, turn into larger ones, break them down even more. Even if it’s a simple thing, doing it will make you feel like you achieved something and hey, you’ll be one step closer to that larger goal.
What are you waiting for? Get working on those goals, and start achieving them!
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That’s great advice not only for your blog, but any goals, both business and personal that you may want to achieve.
Cheers!
Jay
This is awesome. We need to be taking continual small steps…not one giant leap!
Yeah. its just like everyone started out small and eventually some became big! Everyone goes through that method and theres really no shortcut
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All of us want to achieve things at a super fast rate, while is good to be proactive in business. Its also impoartant to draw achievable goals in the short and long run. Thank Max for this wonderful post.
Completing small goals definitely helps you stay motivated as you see them completed. It’s also easier to stay focused because the smaller goals are most likely practical steps you can take right now, instead of seeing and focusing on the end result, focus on the next immediate task. Great post buddy.
This is a great concept… I find that if I set my goals too high, it feels that I’m never getting there and I get discouraged. Some people would even go as far as to assume they aren’t getting anywhere and quit.
By setting small achievable goals you can give that feeling of accomplishment and keep yourself driven for that next task.
I concur with breaking down a large goal into smaller, easier-to-achieve goals.
For me, it’s the right thing to do because when one achieves a goal, he gets more motivated in order to achieve his other goals!
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I always find that when you set goals that are very large, you feel that you are not accomplishing anything, when in reality you actually are. It’s just that the goal too large for you to notice.
I find that if you set smaller goals, then you will notice yourself getting better and it will be much more easier to achieve them.
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Excellent post. Far too many advocate the super sized goals…if you really analise it, they are ones that already made it and either don’t remember or don’t care to remember where they started from.
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Good good, I follow this mindset on the time, many people fail all their long-term goals, and forget, it was just a few short-term goals one after another.
God has been very supportive with me in terms of my goals..
What ever goals i set for myself i generally achieve them in lesser amount of time that i think i ll take to reach there. Hope it continues for ever