The first step in The Core Challenge is to set your goal. The goal you set for The Core Challenge should reflect your passion, your instincts and your vision for the person that you want to become. The goals you set for yourself will determine the circumstances and situations you will meet in life.

Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Goals give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. Goals provide definition and help you organize your time and your resources efficiently.

Everybody wants to be healthy and happy. Everybody wants to be wealthy, prosperous and many other things, but not everyone has goals that map out how they will achieve these objectives. During The Core Challenge you will be intensely goal-oriented. To assist you, we have created 2 manuals:

• My Success Guide - This is a daily tracking manual that will give you the ability to identify what you want, make a plan to attain it and use the best tools, resources and strategies to achieve it.
• 100 Best Practices of Highly Successful People - This is a self-study manual that will help you learn and adopt a new best practice from the selection of the compilation of 100 Best Practices of Highly Successful People.

The process of setting goals begins by determining your desires, beliefs and values. This process is explained in your training manual and you will learn how to use this process to win this challenge.

One might wonder why we need to establish objectives in the first place, why not let a company or a specific activity just run smoothly into the future and see where it gets.

That would be the case only if we really do not care whether the activity in discussion will be successful or not: but then, to use a popular saying, "if something deserves to be performed, then it deserves to be performed well".

In other words, if we don't care for the results, we should not proceed with the action at all.

Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and to motivate yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality.

The process of setting your goal for The Core Challenge will help you choose where you want to go in life. Here are the top 10 personal goals that most people consider for The Core Challenge:

1. Lose Weight
2. Excellence in Your Work
3. Financial Freedom
4. Building a Loving Family
5. Travel the world
6. Excellent Physical and mental Health
7. Get a Better Education
8. Quit Smoking & Alcohol
9. A Comfortable, Loving Home
10. Rest, Relaxation and Recreation

The method we suggest for setting your objectives for The Core Challenge is the S.M.A.R.T. way. The SMART approach is well understood amongst managers, but is poorly practiced. S.M.A.R.T refers to the acronym that describes the key characteristics of meaningful objectives, which are:

1. Specific (concrete, detailed, well defined)
2. Measurable (numbers, quantity, comparison)
3. Achievable (feasible, actionable)
4. Realistic (considering resources)
5. Time-Bound (a defined time line).

Setting objectives before taking The Core Challenge is the only right thing to do, for several reasons:

1. Gives you a target to aim to, therefore all actions and efforts will be focused on attaining the objective.
2. Gives you a sense of direction of where you’re going to.
3. Motivates you to achieve your goals.
4. Offers the means to evaluating the success of your activities.