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Goal setting is a popular topic, especially towards the beginning of every new year when people come up with their new year’s resolution. There is a reason why so many people want to make goals around this time – because it works! Giving that they stick to their goals, setting them can certainly work!

There are many different goals one can come up with, and you can either choose to do one at a time or a bunch at a time. Regardless of which healthy goal(s) you wish to set, there are so many benefits to having them! It doesn’t matter when you start them either – as long as you START!

Below are 5 reasons why goal setting is healthy:

It Helps Give Your Life Purpose

Having a goal means that you have something to work for and towards, which can help give your life purpose and focus! That’s an incredible benefit! In fact, it’s one of the best!

If you continuously strive after things without setting goals for them, you run the chance of not succeeding and could be left feeling useless with no purpose or plan for yourself. Setting goals is a tool to get your life on track and to start living with purpose!

For example, consider that you love helping people but never have time to fit it in. If you keep using the excuse that time is the culprit, you’re never going to be able to help people and will continue to stay stuck in a lifeless dream!

However, if you set the goal to help people via baby steps that are reasonable and achievable, you will see that you do have the time for it (in fact, you always have!)- you just have to learn how to make the time for it! Goals will help with that!

Imagine if you intentionally set a goal to reach your dream – what purpose you would feel!

It Helps with Success

One of the best ways you can ever achieve success in your life, career, relationships, health, and more, is to set specific goals. The most successful people in the world practice this healthy habit often because they know it helps!

Think about it – are you more likely to succeed with losing weight if you only think about it when the mood strikes or, could you achieve more if you set up a goal to get into shape to help you lose weight, planning to do it in a specific timeline? The latter option is your best!

If you have a goal set, it becomes more realistic, and when something becomes more real, it becomes a large part of your life – sometimes the focal piece of your life! You will find yourself thinking of your goal every day, which will prompt you to go for it more than if you were merely “thinking about it” now and then.

It Helps with Self-Confidence

How often do you take the time to look at where you’ve been in life to where you are now, and what you all accomplished? It’s not often that we do if we don’t set goals. Setting goals can help improve your confidence – especially if you reach the goal you put out there!

Doing something without a goal is possible, and it can leave you feeling happy, but imagine you had a goal that seemed impossible to achieve, and for weeks and months, you fought hard, determined to reach that goal, and finally, you reached it!

Knowing you passed your own test, despite any obstacles that got in the way, gives significant boosts of confidence! Confidence, being a result of you knowing you worked hard for something and crossed the finish line!

Not only will you feel confident right after you accomplish your goal, but even after you’ve celebrated your victory, that goal automatically became a positive, healthy habit in your life that powerfully changed your once-stale mindset! You’ll start to think of life differently and realize that you are worth the goals you set and achieve! You will remember that you set a goal and made it every time! You will feel so incredibly happy and proud of yourself!

It Helps with Staying Organized

Another healthy benefit to goal setting is that it helps you stay organized! Being organized is an incredible benefit for those who struggle with keeping their house tidy and organized. Do you know the added benefits keeping a clean and orderly home provides? Lots!

Being Organized Improves Mood and Much More

When we live day by day in a messy, disorganized home, it can significantly affect our mood, our motivation, our time management, our finances, and definitely our sanity!

If you were to simply just set a goal to clean one room a day for 10 minutes, imagine how good you would feel – how organized and clear-headed! Not to mention – how your family would feel!

Once you feel an improvement in your mood by keeping up with your house cleaning goals, this will enable you to set and achieve more goals!

And of course, if you don’t feel like cleaning or decluttering your home, Maid For You can help! Contact us at (215) 370-7993 or request a free quote.

We would be thrilled to clean your home and allow you to destress!

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It Helps with Motivation

That feeling of confidence, pride, and happiness with yourself after accomplishing a goal is an incredible motivator to want to do more and go after new things!

Motivation not only occurs after you reach a goal but also after you achieve it because, during the time where you are trying to accomplish something you set out to do, motivation kicks in and helps you get there quicker!

Motivation is a great benefit to have because it can help in so many areas of your life and as a person!

Be S.M.A.R.T. with Your GOALS

You may have noticed in this post that I frequently talked about goals only working when followed in a specific way. – when setting goals, always make sure to follow the “S.M.A.R.T” rule!

  • Specific – Make goals that are well defined and targeted.
  • Measurable – Make goals that you can easily measure your progress with.
  • Achievable – Make goals that you know are possible.
  • Realistic – Make goals that are relevant to your life.
  • Timely – Make goals that have a timeline for you to follow.

If you follow the “S.M.A.R.T” rules for goal setting, you are off to a great start to become someone who can be successful in achieving what you want!

As previously mentioned, there are many more reasons why goal setting in incredibly healthy and beneficial, but these are the core reasons to consider.

You have the power inside of you to change your life, your world, and your future by setting goals – so why not start today?

Share in the comments below: What is ONE goal you can set for yourself this year?