1. Why open up this Zoom Call to everyone?
2. Business plan is a Life Plan.
3. Score yourself 1-10 in the critial areas of life (Health/Wealth/Family/Spritiality)
4. Study your past Trends, numbers to measure, Treaths,
5. SMART Goals (Specific, Mesureable, Achievable, Realistic, Timeframe)
Twenty Mistakes people make when planning for the new year
Goals are major to a genuinely success oriented person.
Without them, you just playing around.
The difference between a goal oriented person and someone without goals is like the difference
between a world champion and a kid battling a tennis ball around on a court with no net, no
opponent to bring out the best in him and no way of keeping score.
Despite everything that has been said about goal setting, very few people actually put it into
practice. Its always amazed me how the average guy puts more time into planning his two week
vacation than he devotes to planning his life. What’s he taking a vacation from? He hasn’t really
decided what he really wants, but for two weeks out the year he wants to do something different.
And this is what he plans very carefully.
Challenge creates strong character and goals represent challenge in its most positive form.
Leaders have their personal goals clear in focus, as well as the goals of the organisation. In fact one
of the principal responsibilities of leadership is defining goals for the vast majority of people who
aren’t able to do it for themselves.
Over the years, I’ve developed some ideas about effective goal setting, and id like to share that with
you in a moment. As a kid, I used to dream about what it would be like to buy a ticket on a railroad
train and just go someplace. I really didn’t think about where I’d be going or how long it would take
to get there. I just loved the idea of getting on a train and letting it take me someplace. I guess
there’s still something appealing about that idea, but its not really how you want to be living your
life as a mature human being. When you grow up you buy a ticket on a train or a plane because you
want to go some place, and you know exactly where you’re going. You may have to change planes in
a different city and your flight may be cancelled and you may have to switch to another flight. You
may not feel like talking to the person next to you, but you will persist. You know where you headed
and you’re quite determined to get there. That’s goal directed behaviour in its simplest form.
There are short term goals and long term goals. Sometimes you’re flying to another country, other
times you’re just walking to the corner grocery store. Long term goals are the equivalent of a major
journey. When you reach the point where you’ve achieved your long term goals, you’re life will be
fundamentally changed and the process of getting you to that point will transform you into a
stronger, wiser, higher performing person than you are now.
How can you identify your long term goals?
Write these 5 heading:
- What do I want to do
- What do I want to be
- What do I want to see
- What do I want to have
- Where do I want to go
Under each of these write down several possibilities. Just relax and let your mind flow and come up
with six ideas for each of these categories. No details. Just write ideas.
Next write down by when you want to achieve that particular goal.
- Immediate Goals
- Medium term goals
- Long term objectives
Make sure that they evenly balanced.
Now its time to make some selections. Whats really important rather than just fun. Select 3 or things
in each category for 1,3, 5, 10 years?
Now describe your goals in great details with absolute clarity.
This is one of your most important and precious personal possessions.
But we not done yet, every goal is a powerful motivator, but only if there a powerful reason behind
it.
- Why do you want to achieve your goals
- Why do you want to own your own home? Or a private airplane?
- Why do you want to travel the world?
- Why do you want to have financial freedom?
- Why do you want to be healthy and in peak physical shape?
- Or be the first person in your family to earn a PHD?
Write down the reasons for wanting your goals with the same degree of detail that you used to write
the descriptions. If you cant find a clear and convincing reason for each of your sixteen gaols, do
some serious re-evaluating. You may have more pipe-dreams than real goals, and now is the time to
make that discovery.
Keep working on your list until you have sixteen clearly envisioned, strongly motivated long term
goals.
Review what you have written regularly, and keep track of your progress towards these objectives.
Above all Persevere.
Goal setting is a very important first step, but goal achievement is a continuous, lifelong process.
That’s what makes it so challenging. That’s also why its so extremely rewarding to finally attain your
long term goals.
With regard to immediate goals, those will require anywhere from a day to a year to achieve.
Read what you have written at frequent intervals. Keep track of your progress and do something
often that brings you closer to realising these very short term objectives. That way you will always
have something to celebrate. These are not only important in their own right, they’re also
confidence builders and motivators towards a lifestyle based on perseverance and achievement.