Goals are vital to
success. They're HOW to get where we're going. The WHERE is your Vision which
is what your life looks like if you design it with no restrictions, impediments
or problems. Your goals are the checkpoints along the way to getting there.
1. Values? What do you value above all
else?
2. Action Statement. Write a sentence that
describes each Value in action.
3. Roles. What roles do you play in your
life? Parent, spouse, friend, coach, leader, etc. Do your roles conflict with
your values or compliment them?
4. Your ideal life. This is your vision or its
basis. Describe a typical day when you've achieved your goals. This future has
no impossibilities and nothing to hold you back. Make this a typicalday. No one-time, special events go here.
Your time frame should be 3-5 years out if this is new for you or longer if
you're experienced at goal setting. Does it reflect your values and roles?
5. The Price. What price will you pay? No
golfing for a year? No TV? Will you work overtime, or spend an extra hour a day
making calls? Will you take classes, read books or get a coach? Just remember
that "Success at all Costs," is usually just that. It costs you all.
Check against your values and roles.
6. Major checkpoints? These are your major goals.
There are two kinds. First is time. Goals that are 6 months, 1 year, 2 years,
etc. from now. Second is functional. If you plan to be CEO of your company,
what are the steps you have to go through first? What do you have to do before
moving to the next step? Check this against your values and roles.
7. Break each checkpoint into its components. Each checkpoint will
be made of sub-checkpoints or can be broken into steps that can be better
achieved. This makes the process more manageable and easier to understand.
Values and roles?
8. Action Plan. Create a workable plan. Take
each sub-component and determine what it takes to do it. List the steps and
things you have to do or become. How much time is needed? What order do you do
it in? Who can help you get these things done? Check against your values and
roles.
9. Schedule it! You have to schedule it. You mentally
cleared your calendar in step 5, the Price, so you can fill it with your Action
Plan. Don't try to do too much at once. That is how people get discouraged.
They set the bar so high, or set too many bars, that it's impossible to do it.
Check against your values and roles.
These steps can help
you accomplish any goal or dream you have if you're willing to follow them and
commit to doing the work. Goals take hard work, both to create and to execute,
but they're worth it if you've got good ones.
Setting good goals
is essential to your success. Everyone thinks they know how to set goals, but
sometimes we don't know or remember some things.
Tim Johnson is a
life-long student of self-development and leadership material. He's on a
mission to teach as many people as he can to be successful in a moral and
ethical way, consistent with their values,that can create positive change in
themselves and everyone they meet.
To learn more about
Tim's ideas on Success, go to http://www.Success-Maniacs.com to learn more.
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