To improve your chances of success, you need to create a goal worth working for. It needs to be meaningful and motivating and keep you working. Here are some ideas to help develop a better goal.

Coming from the machining world, we were always faced with challenges for improving business. Usually these were centered on an area that was negatively impacting our performance. So we would be tasked with indentifying the issue and resolving it using various tools, one of which is the Y Diagram.

The Y Diagram can also be used to find your real goal purpose and to assist in it’s achievement.

We will use weight loss for our example and you desire to fit into that bikini or skinny jeans again. Start by asking why it is important to you. For most the bikini is not motivational enough to keep working toward the goal.

To obtain the best results you need to discover the real purpose of the goal. So ask your self again, WHY do I want to get into those jeans. Is it because it will make you feel better about yourself? Is it to finally reach your optimal weight? Whatever the reason for the jeans is, we are getting closer to your purpose for the goal.

So maybe fitting into the jeans will finally make you feel better about yourself. Again, why is that a problem, why is it important? Will the loss restore your personal confidence again or possibly improve your relationships with your significant other? Now we are getting somewhere, we are finding the true emotion behind the goal.

The object of this exercise is to get to a purpose driven goal that has meaningful results attached to it that will motivate you. Just attempting to lose weight for the jeans will not do it because they offer no significant value to you.

Discovering the emotional impact is the key to success in reaching the goal. If you are rebuilding your confidence or improving your relationships is the real reason you will be more driven. After all you do want these things, and they having meaning to you.

You see, the goal now has a defined result that motivates you to continue. The more there is at stake, the more personal and emotionally developed the goal the more there is to lose. When you have an emotional attachment to the success or failure, you will work harder and stay more committed.

Getting to the emotional impact of a goal is important to its success. use this method to get to that purpose and you will find it is easier to reach any goal.