How To Set A Goals Worksheet
How To Set A Goals Worksheet
It has become a kind of a cliché that when the New Year rolls around, people are all about setting new year resolutions. Plenty of advice is given online through blogs and media. But by midyear, not many people will have accomplished a single one of their goals.
Why does goal setting seem so difficult? Is it only a select few who can set goals and actually achieve them?
The truth is, you can set goals and achieve them. But you have to do it the right way.
Most importantly, you have to create a strong emotional connection to your goals. Take a novel for example; as the story unfolds slowly page by page, you get so emotionally wrapped up in it that it is hard to put it down.
Your life is a series of stories and the goals you aspire to achieve are the endings to these stories.
Right from the beginning, you need to make an emotional commitment and then get down to unfolding the story one step at a time. Its the same when you are setting your goals.
Here are a few tips on how to set a goals worksheet.
1. Set A Maximum Of Two Goals
You are guaranteed to fail if your list of New Year resolutions fills and entire page. If you succeed, then the goals were too small.
First off, you need to set big goals. This is not the time to be reasonable.
Think big, what do you want to achieve in the next 12 months?
Examples of big goals include losing a quarter of my weight, making five new friends, starting a business and so on.
Limit your goals to two and if possible just make it one. This creates pinpoint focus, ensuring that all your efforts and resources are directed towards achieving this goal.
If you make two goals, a good idea is to make one goal personal (e.g. get into a healthy relationship or lose 40 pounds) and another academic, business (e.g. start a new stream of income that pays me x amount of money per month or increase sales by x amount for the year).
Don’t feel limited by these suggestions. After all, you know best what you want.
2. Break Down Your Goals Into Monthly And Weekly Mini-Goals
Remember how the novel unfolds page by page until you get to the end; this is how your goals should be. Turn your goals into a journey, not just a fantasy to be fulfilled sometime later in life.
When it is a journey, you will feel excited and will be less likely to fall into negative habits such as procrastination.
Start by breaking down your main goal into monthly targets. If you are planning to start a business, you can set your monthly goals like this:
- January:
- On or before January 1st 2016 I will easily research and come up with a viable business idea by finding other people that are doing what I want to do and see how I can model them.
- February:
- On or before February 1st 2016 I will easily get started by taking massive action and begin working toward my new business strategy. I will not fear failure, instead I will live by the motto “fail fast” knowing that the faster I fail the faster I will ultimately succeed!
- March:
- On or before March 1st 2016 I will easily make my first $1,000 in sales for my new business venture.
Just by re-reading this, you can feel the excitement start to build. Write on until you get to your ultimate goal. Now, you have a map all laid out and ready to follow. A step-by-step guide to transform!
You can even go further to break down these monthly goals into weekly goals. In January for example, you can divide your weekly goals into four:
- Week 1: Do research online to find ways people are making money online.
- Week 2: Get in contact with someone making money in a way I would like to.
- Week 3: Sign up for coaching with someone already making money the way I want to make money.
- Week 4: Follow instructions and do exactly as coach/mentor says to.
For every week, go even further and create daily schedules the night before you will work on the tasks. This ensures that when you wake up each day, you know exactly what to do to get close to your goal.
Breaking down big goals makes them seem not intimidating anymore.
3. Change Habits MAXIMIZE TIME And ENERGY!
The journey towards your goals will require a change in habits. If you keep doing the same things you have always done, you will get more of what you already have!
You must filter out things that waste your time or energy. It can be social media, emails, partying or TV. Take inventory of your day by writing down everything you do for the day. Do this for a couple of days, or as long as it takes to get an idea of how you are spending your time.
After you have a solid grasp on how you spend your day, make a commitment to become more strict with the time you spend checking emails, cut down on TV, talking on the phone, or anything else that is getting in the way of you reaching your goals.
Decide what you are willing to give up and sacrifice in order for you to reach your goals.
Remember, that anything is possible if you only believe you can achieve it and take massive and faithful action towards your goal – you will achieve it!
We hope this has helped you better understand how to set and achieve your goals. When you look at it this way, nothing seems impossible! Don’t you think so?
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To success beyond your wildest imagination!
-Matt & Karen Hale
