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Four Questions to Simplify Your Goal Achieving Strategy

In order to simplify the process of creating a strategic plan to achieve your goals there are four straightforward questions to ask yourself. Regardless of your specific goal, these questions will make your way easier.

Who has already done it?
There is an old axiom: Success Leaves Clues. Whatever your goal, someone has accomplished what you are trying to do. Identify that person and make them a mentor – literally or spiritually. You will see in them, not only how to accomplish your goal, but see an example of someone who has conquered the mountain and achieved the goal. You are not the first and you are not alone. Perhaps the mentor will be someone with whom you can have a close, collaborative relationship. Others may only be inaccessible except by study and observation. In either case, you will need to connect with someone who accomplished the goal before you.

How did they go about it?
Once you have identified your mentor, the next step is pinpointing how they achieved what you are starting off to achieve. What steps did they take? What things worked for them and what did not? How much time did it take them? What sacrifices did they have to make for the goal? Will you make the same sacrifices, if necessary? After you study their process, you will clearly see what it required to bring about your goal.

What were the Obstacles?
You have become familiar with how this was completed before, and now you need to delineate what the obstacles are. More precisely, you need to find out what obstacles will there be for you. Examine yourself honestly and identify what are the hurdles you need to overcome. Spend only enough time and energy on this to ascertain the stumbling blocks. Write these down and move on to last question. That is, spend the lions’ share of your time on the solutions, not the problems.

What were the solutions?
With your written list of roadblocks in hand, develop a strategy to resolve each one. Use your creativity but apply a healthy dose of realism to create a game plan that will permit you to surmount the obstacles and attain your goal. Your plan of attack may be unlike your mentor’s route as some of your hurdles may be unlike what they encountered. Nevertheless, your mentor’s path will provide a template for you to follow.

These are four simple steps, but if you take the time and effort to discover the answer for each you will have a well-defined strategy for achieving your goal. Give it a try. The process works for many goal achievers. Now it is your turn to shift from a goal setter to a goal achiever. Now you can achieve your dreams.