How to make realistic goals and achieve them

For the benefit of reading in this playbook, there is made use of a statements which many photographers want: doing a commercial shoot. 

For the goals to be formulated well, make the goals:

• Specific, if you are not specific with what you want to achieve it is hard to define if you have actually me the goal you wanted to meet:
  
  Before: ‘I want to do work for a client’ 
  After: ‘I want to do a shooting where i get paid.’
  
  
• Measurable, you want to have evidence that proves that you are making the progress you wanted: 
  
  Before: ‘I want to do a shooting where i get paid.’
  After: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where i can get an hourly salary from.’
  
• Achievable, look at your skills and the skills you can possibly learn in order to meet the goal and don’t do anything that doesn’t fit your motivation levels or personality.
  
  Before: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where i can get an hourly salary from.’
  After: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where i get paid $60,- dollars an hour, i can acheive this goal by making increases in my pricelists.’
• Relevant, don’t set goals that are not of high value to yourself or the company.
  
  Before: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where i get paid $60,- dollars an hour, i can acheive this goal by increasing my pricelists.’
  After: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where I get paid $60,- dollars an hour, I can acheive this goal by increasing my pricelists while offering my professional work to many clients.’
  
  
• Timely, look at how motivated you are and how much time you can spend on reaching your goals and make a choice based of that.
  
  Before: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where I get paid $60,- dollars an hour, I can acheive this goal by increasing my pricelists while delivering my professional work to possible clients.’
  After: ‘I want to do a commercial shooting where I get paid $60,- dollars an hour, I can acheive this goal by increasing my pricelists this month while delivering my professional work to possible clients.’

Write down your short & long term goals. People who write down there goals are 42% more likely to achieve the goals. 

Be critical about your goals and answer these questions:

• Are your goals written down?
• Are they your goals?
• Do you have deadlines
• What will help you in reaching your goals?

There is a lot of research about most questions that arrise to people. If you want to reach a goal, find out if there is already an xistent path to achieving your goals? 

Create a structure with all your small term goals to reach the long term goals.