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Introduction

Deciding to set goals is one of the most important things you can do to improve your life. However, nearly 98% of people take the time to set clear goals for themselves in their life. It's essential for you to think about where you want to be, whether it's in one month, one year, or one decade from today. Taking the time to identify where you want to be is the best way to make sure you are going in the right direction and help you avoid pursuing goals that don't excite you.

Those who don't set goals for their life may not believe that they have any control over their lives, leading them to wander through life heavily influenced by the people and circumstance that surround them. They give their power over to the environment rather than using it to create the experiences they genuinely desire. This results in them achieving less than if they would have taken the time to set specific goals and plan their lives.

However, it is important to remember that merely having goals isn't enough. Something that can be just as bad as not having any goals in life have unclear goals that are not aligned with what you want out of your life. Unfortunately, many of the people who take the time to set goals, spend years in single-minded pursuit of a single goal, only to achieve it with the sudden realization that it isn?t want they genuinely wanted.

Setting specific goals is one of the best decisions you can make in your life. Learning to set the right goals will allow you to tap into your intrinsic motivation, live autonomy, mastery, or purpose, and put you on the right path for uncovering your hidden potential. This book will help you define your goals, as well as the kind of life you want to create. It will help you set goals that will inspire you and make you want to leap out of bed every morning. You might be intimidated about setting goals at first, but you?ll discover that the journey is more than worth it in the long run.

Chapter 1 – Why It’s Important to Set Goals

Setting goals gives direction to your subconscious mind, helping you to achieve your goals. They give you a path in life. However, setting vague goals like “I want to make more money,” or “I want to live a happy life,” won?t end up leading you to a fulfilling life.

Your subconscious is a powerful machine, and gaining an understanding of how it works is a big part of setting goals that are successful. Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho-Cybernetics, explains how setting goals gives your subconscious mind direction.

"Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means,”

Your subconscious mind behaves similarly to GPS; it is continuously scanning the environment around you for the information relevant to the details you've given it. This is why setting goals that are clear will provide you with a higher chance of accomplishing them. A strong signal is sent to your subconscious mind, allowing it to unleash its power of focusing on looking for opportunities to achieve the goal.

Setting Goals Empowers You

When you begin setting your own goals, in all significant areas of your life, rather than letting someone else set them for you, you stop giving your power away. When you set goals for your relationships, finances, career, health, and personal life, you begin to take your control back and become more empowered. You begin to make the conscious choice to become the creator of your own life and start to take responsibility for every single aspect of your life.

Taking the time to figure out your goals for your future will make a significant impact in your life. What would you do differently today if you knew how much you wanted to make in five years, where you wanted to be in twenty-five years, or how long you wanted to live?

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Lay the Foundation

Develop a Solid Traffic Strategy That Works Best With Your Niche

Over the course of these reports, we?re going to be examining some of the most powerful and effective growth hacks known to the industry.

These are simple strategies that have been shown on countless occasions to accelerate the growth trajectory of any site: to help it gain more visitors, to earn more money and to increase its reach much more quickly than it would do by using purely conventional means.

There are plenty of these growth hacks around as we will see and many of them can be highly successful.

But growth hacks still don?t make successful businesses. Neither will growth hacks work at all if there is not a solid foundation already in place.

It is a mistake to approach any endeavor – especially in business – thinking that you can „hack? it and get success overnight. Websites don?t explode with millions of visitors in a day. Instead, most successful websites are the result of consistent effort over many, many months and even years.

All the biggest sites in the world started where you are now. The difference between those and the ones that have fallen by the wayside is that they put in consistent effort, provided consistent value and didn?t give up when things didn?t happen for them right away.

Growth hacks provide little spurts of extra traffic and they help to speed things along. But the foundation of your success is what is most important. Don?t focus on getting traffic quickly. Focus on getting traffic slowly.

The Single Most Important Factor: A Great Website

Let?s start with the single most important factor: having a great website.

There is no way around this. If you want to grow your traffic and grow your success, then you absolutely need to have a great website that people want to visit.

That?s the only way that they?re going to visit more than once and it?s the only way they?ll want to help you by sharing your site.

So, what makes a great website? The first thing is that you need to offer value. That means they need to get something in return for visiting your site: probably either entertainment or information.

That means you can?t „half ass it?. That means that you can?t rest on your laurels and think it?s fine to just churn out low-quality garbage and expect people to come flooding to your site.

Now, that might sound very obvious but it?s something often overlooked. You might be surprised by just how many people will create a website where they share fitness advice without actually knowing anything about fitness.

And you?d be surprised how many care absolutely not at all about the quality of the content on the site or how the people reading it feel.

These are the people that hire writers for the lowest possible fee. These writers often come from overseas and often know nothing about the subject they?re writing about.

Or they churn out the content themselves by simply copying the successful posts they see on the other sites and by just filling out all the „standard posts? they think that every site in that niche needs.

If it?s a site about fitness, that might mean they make a few posts about working out each body part and be done with it.

Then they?re surprised that their traffic never grows.

But the reason is obvious: they?re not offering anything worthwhile or different from the other sites in that niche. They?re not giving their visitors a reason to come back and they?re not giving their visitors a reason to share the content with others.

In short, they don?t care about the posts they?re making and this comes across in the quality of their content.

You need to not only care but also make this clear. And on top of that, you also need to show in other ways that your site is exciting. You need to show that it has a purpose, a target audience etc.

That means coming up with a logo and a strong brand. It means giving that brand a tagline and creating a website that ties this all together.

Now you have a website that has value written all over it and that should appeal to a specific target audience. If you can promote this in the right way, you?ll be surprised at just what an impact it can make to your success.

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Chapter 1: The Truth about Goals

The common meaning of goal is something that any person wishes to achieve but only we ourselves can truly define our unique goals to ourselves.

Throughout the civilization of the human race, every achievement originates from the ideas and efforts of our ancestors. Since then, many individuals have gathered and aspired to achieve goals in their respective fields. In each generation, we have found meanings of our lives in our different goals when we possess the desire to achieve a certain purpose in life. By all means, we will use our best efforts to achieve these goals. Then, these achievements, in turn, inspire the next generation to improve and achieve more than our predecessors have succeeded.

As it is subjective to define a person?s goal to another, the chances for a person achieving his/her goal can depend on various factors as shown by various research from various fields of study. While some pursuits of success are limited by certain factors, there are others whose success grows on different factors.

Industry experts, business people, motivational speakers, entrepreneurs have all shared their knowledge, methods and skills with us to achieve our targets or emulate their success. Despite that, many have often overlooked the importance of setting their goals clear enough to utilize the information and skills they possess effectively.

So how do we perfectly set goals that will launch our work to success? Before trying to answer this question, we must first understand why so many have failed to set their goals.

10 Reasons Why People Fail at Setting Goals

1. Not Realizing the Importance of Setting Goals

The most habitual mistake during the planning stage is to ignore the importance of setting goals. In fact, most who do not understand that specifying goals for both the short term and the long term cannot find purpose, meaning or even inspiration in their efforts to achieve the goals set.

Such mistake does not only affect an individual or organization?s course of actions but also the attitude towards the goals. Without a sense of purpose or meaning of the goals, one cannot simply use passionate effort to achieve success.

Goals are not just tasks on a to-do-list which you can tick off once you?ve completed it. Goals can also be stepping stones to a bigger cause in life. Therefore, we should define our goals clear enough before we set ourselves on our journey.

2. Writing Only the Long Term Goals

Our focus on the end results have often derailed us as our progress is not constructively planned when we have only set long term goals but not the short term ones which are required to accomplish the long ones.

For instance, if you wish to start a bakery, you must not only be good in baking cakes and making a variety of confectionery and pastries, you must also know how to manage the business and employ the right people to help you operate the bakery. Those are the short term goals of getting everything prepared before realizing the long term goal of operating a bakery.

Setting short term goals in sight of the long one is to help us focus on one goal at a time and build on each success to reach further and apparently achieve our long term goals. Usually, this sort of achievement satisfies us even more in the end.

3. Pre-Belief that It Won’t Work

Those who have such belief usually have very consistent reasoning on rejecting certain ideas before reaching the final stages of setting their goals. As such, during the stages of setting goals, one should embrace the foreseeable challenges after sufficient analysis and not discouraged by them.

However, over-analyzing and constantly filling ideas and efforts with doubts will definitely end the goal setting process earlier than expected.

During the stages of goal setting, we also have to acknowledge that it would not be possible to answer all the questions and create substantial plans to overcome the foreseeable challenges.