A mentor said to me once ‘without goals you’ll never feel successful’.
I think that was when I was still working as a training manager. What great advice that was. I went about setting goals for the RTO, for myself personally and working with my staff to set goals for them.
Napoleon Hills once wrote “Humans are asprirational goal seeking beings”.
Set goals high I was told, so you need to stretch to reach them. Then I came to wondering what happens if I set the goals and I don’t achieve them, then what happens? Well the pie in the sky dreams sometimes might seem crazy to you at the time…however the bigger the goal you set, the goal that sets the high income, the life changing goal, or the family oriented goal, it means that even if you set it high and only achieve ½ what you intended, then that is better than where you are now.
That’s when I realised that goal setting really is important. The art of goal setting is relatively easy for most. Planning in complex texts, drawing them into books, writing them down, or cutting and pasting onto a vision boards or now on the internet into virtual vision boards, creates lots of fun as well as something to strive for.
“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar
The need to have aspirational goals to which we are working toward achieving is an innate driver of all human beings. And it is this that highlights why so many people feel something is missing in their lives….that they are unfulfilled…..that they sense there is something else for them, but that they’re just not sure what it is. As the opening quote by Bill Copeland put it across very adeptly, if you don’t have a goal in life, you are spending your life running around and not achieving anything for yourself. You get the illusion that you are doing a lot of things, but they aren’t what you want.
Goal setting is the first step toward successful goal achievement. It marks your first point toward success. It is what put your life into real action mode. Without this step, the other steps of goal achievement cannot take place.
So in this RTO tip I simply remind and encourage you to set, write, and pursue aspirational goals for your RTO.
Whether it is to start your own RTO, develop the one you have now or to just meet compliance, goals are important and they work.
Happy goal setting.