Double Your Goals and Double Your Income

An important tool in goal setting is simply remembering that once mastered, we must apply goal setting practice in all areas of our lives. We must not limit it to a few broad areas of our lives. By applying the practice to many areas, we double our chances to double our income.

By limiting our goal setting, we are limiting what we can accomplish. After all, at least part of the reason we set goals is so we can accomplish them. So why would we not set goals in all the areas of our life that need improvement? By limiting our goal setting we are in essence limiting not just what we can accomplish, we are limiting ourselves.

Now, we must temper our new-found enthusiasm for goal setting with a dose of practicality. We must clearly understand that having a bunch of unrelated, non-connecting goals will limit our ability to accomplish larger, more significant goals. Think of goal setting as making a road map for your life, and the goals you set as cities on your map.

Now think of traveling from one city in the center of your map to another city on the far left side of your map. Setting small, unrelated goals would be like trying to go to the city on the left of your map by going first to one at the top, a city close to where you started, and another city to the right of your map.

You will have accomplished a few things on those legs of your trip (goals), but because they were unrelated to each other, you are no closer to the city on the left of your road map now than you were when your trip began.

Let's imagine that we set our same goal of traveling to a city on the left side of our map. Now let's imagine that we set a few benchmarks along the way. Let's say we planned to stop at three cities along the way, each one closer to our large goal, and in the same direction we need to travel.

Let's take this a step further and say that we are able to calculate our fuel mileage and determine a range of places where we will stop for gas and food. Again, each one of these places are closer to our goal, and in the direction we plan to go.

It should not be hard to see that by planning ahead, setting good goals, and setting even more small, connected goals, will lead to us getting where we want to go. In fact, by using this method of goal setting, we will become masters in the art of goal accomplishment.

Doubling your income may seem like it is a difficult thing to do. Driving from New York to California is pretty tough too. But just like driving over 2,000 miles, setting strong, related and connected goals can be a clear path to double your income.

Raymond Aaron,New York Times Top Ten Bestselling Author, "Double Your Income Doing What You Love" published by John Wiley and Sons, New York City.

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