Goal setting made simple
ByAssuming you’ve completed the earlier post about creating your vision, you now have a clear idea of where you want to be and what you want your life to become. If you have not done so, please go here and complete this important first part of goal setting.
Next, it is time to extract some specific measurable goals you can achieve in the next twelve months. We will then break these down even further and, finally, develop an action plan to keep you on track.
Looking back over each area of your vision find one or two specific goals that are in alignment with your overall vision. Goals that you can accomplish in a year’s time that will move you toward fulfilling your vision.
For example, if in your vision you are living a carefree life, with plenty of money, doing work you love, a one-year goal that would lead you towards your vision might be to start your own business and begin earning a specific amount of money from it.
Write your goal in the present tense as though it has already happened and state it in the positive. Be sure to make it exciting and colorful too. Your one-year career goal might look like this, “I am so excited having my successful business, making a difference and earning an additional twenty five thousand dollars a year from it.”
If, in your vision you have a great, loving, supportive, respectful, special relationship with another person, your goal might look like this: “I am so happy that I am in a warm, loving, passionate relationship with the perfect person for me.” Another might be, “I am blessed with supportive and loving friends who I enjoy spending time with.”
In your journal complete this exercise, choosing one or two goals from each of the key areas in your vision. Think about what goal you could accomplish in one year that will support your overall life’s vision.
Next, beside each goal, write a short sentence about why you want this. What will having this do for you and your family? It’s been said that you can accomplish any goal if you have a big enough why.
For example, none of us want more money for the sake of just having money. We want more money for the things it will do for us, whether to buy something, pay for a great vacation, college tuition or simply to have a better lifestyle.
By the way, if you already have your own business, you may want to complete a vision and goal session for it and if you have employees or a team, have each of them do the same. Companies using these principals have produced quantum leaps in their revenue. As I said before you can use these techniques for any area of your life.
The alternative is leaving your life to chance. The fact that you’re reading this tells me that you are not one of those people willing to settle and live, as Henry David Thoreau said, “in quiet desperation.” You have within you the power to change your life.
Your three month goals
Once again I’m going to ask you to extract measurable specific goals. This time you will look at your one-year goals and ask what you can accomplish in three months.
Take each goal that you set earlier and break it down into a three-month milestone.
For example, in your business area, your one-year goal of highly successful business could become a three-month goal like the following: “I have happily begun my new business part-time and it is growing steadily.”
Your relationship goal may become something like this: “I am so happy having met a wonderful person who I enjoy being with.” Again, do this for each of the one-year goals you identified.
I realize this seems like a lot of work, but it will be well worth it. This is one of the best activities you can do for yourself. You are really taking charge of your own destiny and creating the life you want to live.
You may want to do this with your family and those people close to you, especially your children.
Next, I’ll share with you my little known but simple strategy for incorporating the power of the law of attraction into your action plan for faster and more powerful results.
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Thanks for this post. I used to get discouraged when I didn’t meet all my goals however, like you suggested when I break them down in more manageable chunks they become easier.
I try to shoot for things that are believable to me, then when they manifest I can move on to bigger goals.
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Hi Diane,
Thanks for commenting.
The tricky part is to have big goals and still have them believable because we cannot achieve anything we do not believe we’re capable of achieving. One thing that helps with the big goals is using a phrase I learned from Michael Losier. Precede your affirmation with “I am in the process of . . . ” That makes it more believable to your subconscious mind. Especially good for affirming huge sums of money. As long as you’re moving toward, you are in the process of.
Jim