Goal Setting
How are your New Year’s Resolutions coming along? Late in December, and early January, we set these amazing goals. And what happens to them by June? Usually the opposite of what we set!!
Miriam’s comment about the podcast has made me think we should have a podcast on goal setting.
There are two parts to goals. The first is setting them. The second is doing them!! I’d learned a long time ago that a goal is a dream with actions. So you can get most people to dream a bit. Try these;
1. What would you Be, Do, Have, with $15,000,000?
2. Describe the perfect day, hour by hour, with almost unlimited funds
3. It’s your 85th birthday party, a family member, a friend, a work colleague, and Michael Parkinson, talk about you. What would you like them to say?
For most people, these types of questions allow them to dream and find out what they really want. When you’ve identified what you really want then set a time to achieve it by. Then work out the actions you need to take to get there, usually working backwards from when you want to achieve your goal.
Simple really! Except, human nature then intervenes. Procrastination, Distraction, Inactivity, Lack of Focus, The Urgent and Important! So we never continue to carry out the action required to achieve the dreams and goals we think we want.
If you’re not strongly action driven, then a more organic approach to goal setting might do the trick. Work out what you really want, think it, dream it, visualise it, and then leave your mind and the universe to work out how it’s going to happen. Very “The Secret“!!
Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen, looks at Horizons of Focus, different levels of focus in your life from the immediate, to the Life Purpose. it’s what I use to look at my current Roles and Responsibilities right up to what my Purpose and Core Values are. I think we’ll look at this in more detail on a podcast.