Set Your Goals – The 6 easy steps to follow

Defining your goals is an important step if you want to have a long term vision on your business and know the path to follow to reach your goals.

We recommend it in the Free Ebook on creating niche sites. Goals will help you stay motivated throughout your journey.

Here’s a step-by-step process for setting your goals:

• Forward rate
• Medium term
• Long term

Why define objectives?

If you ever want to make your dreams come true, you can :

• Cross your fingers and hope to get there one day.
• Define a plan to follow to achieve them.

Which strategy do you think works best?

If you want to climb the Himalayas.

You can:

=> Go to the foot of the mountain and try to find your way to the top.

=> Follow a specific training plan for mountaineering, climb smaller peaks several times before attempting the Himalayas with a guide.

The first one will probably end up in a crevasse or run out of oxygen.

The second one has a great chance to have his selfie at the top

That’s why it’s so important to set goals:

Turn your biggest dreams into small, achievable goals to climb the ladder one step at a time.

Know before you start.

There are three types of lenses:

• Short term (3 and 6 months): A little out of your comfort zone / Easily attainable
• Medium term (1 year / 3 years): Out of your comfort zone / Hard to reach
• Long term (5+ years): Very far from your comfort zone / Completely unreachable

Here we will create a goal for each area:

• Professional Life
• Finance
• Personal life
• Health
• Learning / Hobbie

1 – Define your long-term goals (5 years)

If your goals are not clear. Ask someone close to you to play the game and ask you the questions below:

Setting the scene: You haven’t seen this person for 5 years, it’s 2026 and you’ve achieved all your goals.

1. Hey I haven’t seen you in five years; what’s up?
2. What is your professional situation?
3. Where do you live?
4. How are your finances?
5. How is your family?
6. You have changed physically. What sport do you play?
7. What did you learn?
8. How do you spend your free time?
9. What is your typical day?
10. Are you happy? Why?

→ If you don’t have anyone to ask, DM one of the people who liked this tweet and ask each other the questions.

Now it’s time to take the next step and find your “why”.

2 – Find your “Why

It’s hard to reach your goals without a deep reason.

So fill in this blank for each of your long-term goals, by field (finance / health…):

“… [Contribution], so that … [Impact].”

I give you an example below

3 – Put your goals on paper

Now that you have your long-term goals and the reason why you want to achieve them.

It’s time to write them down.

Create a Notion account and duplicate this template. You’ll just have to fill it with your own goals: bit.ly/3rdO7Zn

It is important to fill out this template in order: 5 years / 3 years / 1 year / 6 months / 3 months.

Or sometimes I do it in this order: 5 years / 3 months / 6 months / 1 year / 3 years

This is to start with the big picture and break it down into smaller steps.

4 – Now write for each long-term (5 years) goal, a one-sentence summary, following this template:

• Action : Running
• Specific: The Boston Marathon
• Time: April 21, 2026

The sentence will then look like this:

Run the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2026

Why?

Because you will learn these phrases by heart and repeat them to yourself every day until they are ingrained in your brain.

The goal is to make your subconscious understand the direction in which you are heading.

5 – Tracking your goals

Duplicate this template: bit.ly/3hFtmTq

And put your short-term goals in the chart to motivate you to achieve them.

Renew them every 3 months.

→ You can also break it down into monthly and/or weekly goals.

6 – Find a partner

In order to stay on top of things, it is important to find someone who will keep track of your progress.

A person with whom you will share your goals.

You will be forced to move, because this person will be there to remind you if you give up.

You can also do it publicly to increase the pressure and make sure you really do your best to get there.

I did it in April and I trust you to remind me in due course:

Bon on va se fixer un objectif 🎯

Dans 1 an jour pour jour, j'aurai aidé 25 personnes à quitter leur travail et générer un revenu supérieur à 2000€/mois grâce au #SEO.

Je poste ça ici pour que vous puissiez me le rappeler le 23 avril 2022.

Qui veut faire partie des 25 ?

— asyncr0ne (@asyncr0ne) April 23, 2021

Now you have everything you need to set your own goals.

If you want to know more, I recommend these two books:

• Goals – Brian Tracy
• Start With Why – Simon Sinek