365QOD-DAY127

"So what do you want?...(after a pause)  I want to be rich."-a conversation

Most people do not have a plan on how to accomplish a desired goal.  So after a while they just give up on their goals.

Several years ago I listened to a Brian Tracy audio book in which he described a brilliant idea on how to accomplish any goal.  I would like to share my understanding of it and my addition to it in the next six posts.

The technique is called GOSPA.  I have added an L and I call it GOSPAL.

The technique starts by identifying a clear Goal.  This gives us the letter G.

So what makes a good goal?  In my opinion it has to be very precise.  For example, saying that I want to write a book is not specific enough.  Saying that I want to write a self-help book to help people succeed on the topic of how to use current results to achieve your ultimate goal.  Now we are talking specific.

In many books that I have read on goal setting it seems that one needs to clearly define a time frame.  In our example let us choose three months.   And the way I will know that I have accomplished my goal is if I can go to Amazon and look up my book under my name.

Putting it together becomes our goal statement:
I (WHO) want to
1.  write a self-help book (WHAT) to help people succeed(WHY)
2.  on the topic of how to use current results to achieve your ultimate goal (HOW)
3. within three months (WHEN)
and 
4. I will verify that my goal has been achieved by looking it up on Amazon.(WHERE)

Today's question is:
"What is a goal that you want to work through during the next six days?"