Here's how to be a goal scorer in the game of life.

I've discovered a new method to help people focus on and achieve their goals.

The biggest problems with goals are:

1. People don't have any
2. People don't have a clear vision of where they want to go.
3. No definiteness of purpose
4. Lack of commitment causes inaction
5. Not SMART goals

It took me four years to figure out how to set clearly defined, actionable goals.

It starts with a clear vision of where you want to go. To get started, write on a piece of paper answers to the following questions.

Why do you think you exist?

What do you currently do that you love?

What do you currently do that you would like to eliminate?

What do you stand for?

What do stand against?

Imagine the world and your life as perfect in five years. 

Describe your perfection in detail..

Why is it perfect?

How much are you working?

If so, what's the perfect job?

What are you doing when you're not working?

How much money are you making?

Describe your relationships with your spouse, children, parents and friends in this perfect world?

What needs to be implemented into your life for this "dream" to be realized?

How do you have to change personally?

Annual goals

What can you do this year to move your life toward this vision of perfection?

In what ways do you need to change this year to move towards this vision of perfection?

Now that you've created a vision of your perfect life, you sleep on your answers. 

The next morning, without reviewing your answers from the previous day, you brainstorm all the things that signifies a perfect life for you in five years. Fill up the page. Write until you can't think of anything else. 

Once you put your brain back into the rhythm of a perfect life, it's time to write out five big goals that you want to achieve this year. The goals have to specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely (SMART).  Each time you write a goal, double check that it fits the SMART criteria. If not, restructure the words so that it can be SMART.

Detailing five annual goals, you then will break them out into chewable smaller goals for the first three months. What do you have to achieve in the next 90 days to move toward your annual goal? 

The reason most people don't have clear written goals is because they don't know where to be begin. To know where to begin, you have to think with the end in mind. Knowing where you want to go will give you definiteness. Accepting definiteness and not getting distracted is the magic in the attainment of all goals.

I wish you all success.