Happy New Year! Everyone in business will be ringing in 2021 this coming weekend. You hadn’t heard? Our pay days are the lagging indicator of the work we’ve put in now and the work we put in today will likely build toward income in January. For some, sales cycles may be shorter than two months, yet it is never too early to start setting yourself up for success!
I’ve met people who dread setting goals. Oftentimes, it is because they have trouble achieving the goals they’ve set for themselves or because they are being forced to do so. Goal setting is one of my favorite things to do and I’m exciting to share with you, over the next three weeks a proven process for taking your biggest dreams and making them your reality.
If I showed you the picture of a finished house and asked you to build it, how likely is it you would even know where to begin? Better, how about if I gave you a lot, wood, cement, tools, and even a crew. Without a clear set of instructions, how would you know what to build? Even if you were a carpenter or a general contractor, you wouldn’t know the dimensions, let alone the materials finishes.
How about if you got to watch a time lapse video of the house being built… in reverse… so you could watch the house being disassembled, piece by piece. You could slow down the replay and see how things are built. You could write down all of the components needed to ensure the roof stays up and that the foundation is stable.
We do the same thing with our goals. The two most common mistakes I’ve seen with goals are:
- People set big goals and never build a plan to achieve them. They are discouraged by attempts to build their house from the finished picture and throw in their towel.
- People set small goals, labeling them “realistic” and hit them. This may be even worse than the first, as we train ourselves to see mediocrity as success.
Today, we’ll paint that picture of our finished house. Just like your life, that finished house is made up of several components and systems which are all vital to its operation as a complete house. What are the parts of your life which complete you as a whole person? From their book, The One Thing, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan describe a life which can be grouped into seven areas.
- Personal Life
- Physical Health
- Spiritual Life
- Key Relationships
- Finances
- Job
- Business
Take action!
1. In your journal or a notebook you can build on for the next few weeks, write a long term goal for each of the seven areas of your life.
2. Each goal should be your ultimate picture of success. Dare to dream big! If your goal can be accomplished in the next five years, you aren’t dreaming big enough!
3. Once you’ve written your Someday Goals, write them in a first-person narrative, using inclusive statements and non-conditional language. Example:
“When I am living my level 10 life, I will have every weekend and evening with my family. We will take one long vacation every quarter and will travel internationally twice per year.”
Bring your completed someday goals with you next week as we take the first steps toward an action plan to complete them. You may have seen me write about dominos in the past and how a domino can knock down another which is 50% larger. These are your earth to the moon dominos. We are going to chunk down to your two inch dominos which you can knock down with a simple flick of your finger, starting the chain reaction to your dreams!
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