How to Clarify Goals: Success Secrets

Series Summary

You’ve got grand plans but have never been able to get them off of the ground. You’re sure that you would become a success if only you could just get started. You’ve got the skills to be self-employed, but not the drive and persistence. In all of these cases, a better understanding of success and what it takes to get there would have helped you to achieve your goal. And that is exactly what Expert Village provides with this series of free self help videos. Kerul Kassel knows that you procrastinate, and is here to help you get past this obstacle to become successful at whatever it is you would like to do. So watch these videos, not later or tomorrow or next week, but right now.

Kerul will outline a basic step-by-step plan for you to follow on your way to success. Begin by clarifying your goals and making sure that they are manageable. Our expert works with you to schedule, prioritize and most of all organize your life in your pursuit of your dreams and aspirations. He also tells you how to create your own opportunities and choose the right business partners. Always remain optimistic about your success. But if you are feeling down about your career, watch these videos a second time and a third time—as many times as it takes—and your star will be on the rise once again.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Kerul Kassel and I'm the author of the book "Stop Procrastinating Now". I'm here on behalf of Expert Village and we're going to talk today about preparing for your own success. Personal productivity strategies for achieving your goals and becoming more effective. Today in this session we 're going to talk about clariflying the tasks and goals by first clarifying your objectives. You see we have a board right next to me. The reason we have to talk about tasks vs. goals vs. objectives is because most people pursue things that they don't really look at first and they get off track because they're not aligned with what they really want. So, let's take a look at the difference between tasks vs. goals vs. objectives. So, first we'll look at tasks. Tasks are the small things, the small steps that get you closer to a goal. Goals are what get you to objectives. Objectives is really what you want. So, let's take a look. If you want to eventually look better, you'll want to diet and lose weight. But we put diet first. Diet is only one means to the end of looking better. There are many other means of looking better. Changing your wardrobe, getting a different hairstyle, many other ways of looking better and feeling better about yourself, diet is only one of them. So, if the goal is to lose weight, diet is only way to achieve this goal so we need to clarify what our objectives are because there may be better ways of achieving them. So, here's another example. We say we have to go to the gym. Why? Well, to get fit. Why get fit? Because we want to feel better physically. Getting to the gym is only one way to achieving the "feel better" objective. There are many other ways to feel better, not just "to the gym" and not just diet necessarily. But, there are attitude adjustments, there are other ways to achieve "feeling better", medication, other kinds of therapies. Here's another one. Declutter to be organized. But, their real goal is to be more efficient, effective, and productive. There are other ways than just decluttering to reach this goal. We're talking about them today. Budget, to create a budget. The reason is to pay off your debts. Why do we want to pay off our debts? We want financial calm, this is the real goal. These are only steps to this goal and there are many other ways to achieve this goal, these are only two possibilities. Status and security is the real objective when we're pursuing a performance increase of 25%. To get a promotion, financial security and status is what we're looking for, these are only two ways to achieve it. They're not necessarily bad ways but we always have to be aware of what we want here because these might not be the best way to this. Income up and security, making cold calls is one, a lot of sales people know this one. The end result: more sales. But, the reason we want better income and more security. So this is taking a look at getting clear what our tasks are by looking at our objectives."