5.
Set goals and objectives
What are the goals you are expected to
meet? Even if you are not given any by your employer or line manager, set goals
for yourself. Having known what you are expected to do and how far you are to
go in doing those things and you also know the things that will be used to
measure your success or non-performance; you should now set goals for yourself:
These are the things I’m going to accomplish, based on what I know. You should
set yourself objectives you are driving towards. Star performers are
goal-driven; they do what needs to be done, when it ought to be done, and how
it is supposed to be done, not the way they feel or think, but how it ought to
be done.
You have to set goals for yourself.
For example, you know your target revenue in a year is N5million; that is a
goal. You then need to plan how to accomplish the N5million mark. How much do
you need to bring in on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis? That helps you
to know whether you are on track or not. What are the things I’m not doing
right that I need to stop? What are the things that I can intensify so I can
get more results? You need to set goals for yourself; that is how you know
somebody who is a star performer, they are goal-driven. They focus on the end
result but do not lose sight of the process; they align with the process that
will take them to that end result. You need to have objectives for what you are
doing.
6.
Count the cost
What will it take me to accomplish
these goals? What will it take me to cover this scope?What will it take me to
meet the expectations or requirements that were delivered to me? What are the
things I need to do to achieve all these? Asking such questions is the hallmark
of a wise person. Jesus Christ says only a wise man would count the cost before
undertaking to build a structure: how many blocks do I need to do this? What
are the costs I need to count?
Every form of greatness requires
something from the great; and there is always a price to pay for any measure of
success. There is no overnight success; if you see an overnight success, the
person has not been sleeping. You usually need to give up something in order to
gain something; that is the way life operates. You have to give up a lesser
thing to gain a greater thing. You have to know the price to pay to become a
star performer in any area of life. We always use Daddy G.O. (Pastor E.A.
Adeboye of Redeemed Christian Church of God) as a reference point, being the
most prominent clergy in Nigeria in terms of popularity and following. However,
do you know the price he is paying for that kind of eminence? How many days he
goes fasting and praying, how many hours he spends on his knees? It took something
for him to get to that point. If he did not pay those prices, he probably would
not be where he is.
Yes, the grace of God is there for
him; but Apostle Paul makes a very powerful statement that inasmuch as there
were many apostles in his time, and he being the least of them, but he
endeavoured to do more than all his contemporaries. He then enumerates those
things he did that put him in a good stead. Why wouldn’t he be attributed to
have written one-third of the Bible since he paid the price? What are the costs
that should be counted for you to achieve the goals and objectives you have set
for yourself and become a star performer? The price is not always easy, but it
is those who count the costs and pay the price that are celebrated.
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