Self Improvement

How To Clarify Your Goals and Achieve Greater Success?

A goal acts as a compass that helps you focus on where you want to go in life.

Nizar Syahmi bin Nazlan
6 min readOct 22, 2021

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Setting your goals can help you to achieve greater success.
Setting your goals can help you to achieve greater success. (Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash)

Have you ever wonder what a goal is? Why do we need to set goals? Or whether goals are the same as objectives and resolutions? If you did, allow me to bring you along on the journey to know what goals are and why it is important to clarify one to achieve success.

A goal refers to something that we want to achieve. You can even view it as a desired result that we plan and commit to achieving. I prefer to say that it is almost like a compass in our lives. After all, having goals help us focus on where we want to go and what we want to achieve in our lives. You can see goals as a compass that helps direct us in the correct direction to our destination.

A goal is not the same as an objective, a resolution, or even a mission. It is more like our vision for the future. That is why clarifying our goals can help us make positive progress to achieve the result we desire. However, having clarity alone will not be enough. You still need a certain level of commitment towards your goals if you want to be successful.

Here are four tips that you can follow to clarify your goals and write out detailed

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Nizar Syahmi bin Nazlan
Nizar Syahmi bin Nazlan

Written by Nizar Syahmi bin Nazlan

I’m a polymath designer, programmer, strategist and writer from Malaysia who is passionate about knowledge, challenges and thrills.

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