Do you have several goals you would like to attain? If you thought about attaining them all at the same time would you feel pulled in far too many directions? Would the result be not truly attaining any of them because you would be spread too thin?
You can choose success. Try this effective method for identifying which ones you want to take action on today, next month, next year and beyond.
Step One
Take out several clean sheets of paper and list all of the goals that you want to accomplish personally and professionally. Don’t hold back, list everything—learning a foreign language, taking pottery classes, start your own business, exercising daily, etc.
Step Two
After you have completed your list, ask yourself the following four questions regarding each goal.
1. Am I willing to do what it takes to accomplish this goal?
2. Am I willing to be who I would have to be to accomplish this goal?
3. Am I willing to give up or change whatever has been in the way of my accomplishing this goal?
4. Is my motive for wanting to accomplish this goal in alignment with my top values and principles?
Whenever you answer yes to all four questions, highlight that goal.
Step Three
Once you have reviewed the entire list this way, mark beside each highlighted goal either “one month”, “one year”, “three years”, “five years”, or “over ten years”. Now take out a clean sheet of paper and write at the top “This Month’s Goals” and list your one-month goals. Do the same for each of the other categories.
Step Four
At the end of your first month take out another sheet of paper and label “This Month’s Goals.” Write any of the goals from your previous month’s goals that you did not complete and look at your one year list and select the goals off that list that you want to begin focusing on for the next month.
Continue this process each month adding new goals as they come up for you on the appropriate sheets and transferring your most pressing goals to the new “This Month’s Goals” sheet. Keep the “This Month’s Goals” sheet posted in a place that is visible. It can also be very rewarding to keep each month’s goals sheet until the end of the year to review the year’s accomplishments and prepare for the New Year. You will be pleasantly surprised by how much you achieve by using this method.
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