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Goal Setting for a Successful Home Business. by: Ian Canaway The ability to set goals and effectively motivate yourself to achieve them are two essential skills that will help you achieve success in you home business. To try and start a business without goals could be compared to throwing a baseball pitch, blindfolded in the dark. What would be your chance of getting your pitch on target? Never mind getting a strike-out. Unless you are very lucky it is unlikely that you will have any success without properly setting out goals. If when you start your home business, in what ever field it maybe, if you have no goals and aim at nothing, is it not unlikely that you will hit nothing and achieve nothing? To set effective goals there are a few things you need to know about yourself which will affect how you set your goals. You are affected by, the environment in which you live, your experience and knowledge, your attitude and dreams and visions for the future. When you set your goals you need to decide what you want and when you want to achieve each goal. You should spend time writing down your goals and display them in a prominent position where you will see them daily to remind yourself to stay motivated and focused. Cross off your goals once they've been achieved, adding new ones to ensure your business keeps growing. 'Don't set your Goals to low. If you don't need much, you won't become much'. - - Jim Rohn - - I'm sure you will have come across the SMART analogy, with regards to goal setting. It contains the most important concepts to consider and adhere to when setting your goals. Goals should be; Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time related. For example it would be unwise to set a goal of making $'10
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