Get Ready to Rock in 2005
Fool-proof goal setting that will put you & keep you on track.
First of all I want to say that I don’t believe in goal setting - at least not the way that most people approach it. Many people just pull some goal out of the air and keep it separate from themselves and then try to reach it out there. In order for a "goal" to be effective it must be in the context of something that is truly meaningful to you. It must excite your passion and your interest. It has to have some juice! It must change you and your life.
So a goal of earning a certain amount of money might be great for you but unless you define what it will really bring you – you haven’t found the true goal. Here are several things that are good to do in preparing for a new year.
1 Finish off the old year - this may seem like a tall order but do what you can to bring outstanding projects or issues to a satisfactory place for you.
- Look at the highlights and successes. List them.
- Without judgment look at those things that were not so successful or those things that may have pulled you down. List those.
- See if you can find some learning for yourself in each of these. If we are learning regardless of what the outcome was we are moving forward. That learning will bear fruit in the future.
2 Look at the important areas of your life: career, family/relationship, health and well-being, money, physical environment, spiritual development, fun/recreation. How would you like each of these areas to change in this next year?
- Write these down and as you are writing them imagine them already fulfilled and describe what that looks like and feels like for you. For instance in writing about family you may find that you want more peace in your family in 2005. You may not be in relationship but want to enter into one this next year.
- As you imagine these fulfilled at the end of next year you may notice that they have required some change in you. Perhaps peace in the family requires more patience on your part or requires you to speak the truth. Finding a relationship may require you to be more open day-to-day to the people you meet. Real goals inspire you and call on you to grow.
3 So the question may be: Who do you have to become in order to reach your goals? Sense into that and how good it will feel to be that person. Developing yourself will develop the goals.
- So write down who you would be when all of these goals come to fruition.
- Print out your goals and print out the piece that describes who you are when you receive the fruits of these goals. Put both of these into your daytimer, on your wall, your fridge, your computer – wherever you will see them and READ them regularly.
4 Every month review the action plan that you feel will get you there, make adjustments – keep it alive. And 2005 will be the best year you have lived yet!
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