How to Succeed in your Goal Setting
What are some of the things you want to achieve this year? How fantastic would you feel if you completed them between now and December?
It’s certainly a great feeling getting to New Year’s Eve, looking back over the year and reflecting on all that you’ve achieved. So, get into action and give yourself a good list to reflect on by Christmas. And, if you’re feeling challenged around getting clear on what this list might look like, or feeling stuck in taking consistent action towards these goals, I suggest considering the possibility of some coaching.
To begin the process of setting some areas for achievement, take a look at the following categories and note down what you would like to make happen in any of them before this year is out. Remember to be ambitious and at the same time realistic. Also, be as specific as possible in what it is you want to achieve – you need to know what it is you’re working towards and when you’ve achieved it.
You may wish to select a series of smaller goals covering all or most of the areas, or restrict your focus to a couple of areas only and undertake larger goals that will require more energy and action.
Personal Growth
Health & Fitness
Career or Business
Finances
Spirituality
Relationships (both intimate relationship and relationships with family & friends)
Home Environment
Fun & Recreation
I’d also suggest completing the Life Satisfaction Quiz to assist you with this process, also in the Freebies section of my website. This will likely reveal some areas of opportunity, from anything like health checks not being up to date, to personal files not being in order, to trying something new that you haven’t done before.
Now that you have your list, you will need to create a plan of attack for each of the items you’d like to achieve by the end of the year. For each item in turn, work out what the key activities are that you need to complete to accomplish it. It all comes down to the good old elephant-eating principle….
Q: How do you eat an elephant?
A: One bite at a time.
With a plan of attack, you are now able to take the very first step. A great secret of successful goal setting and achievement is to never leave the site of setting a goal, without taking one step in the direction of that goal. It could be a simple phone call, jumping on the internet to do some research, or some other activity that will set the goal in motion.
Happy goal setting, and remember as Alexandra Stoddard said, “What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows”.
