As we begin the new year, 2016. It’s really a great time to talk about goals and goal setting and give everybody a little bit of an overview about how we do that.
First and foremost, the most important thing to do with goal setting is to figure out what it is you want.
Figure out what it is you want and write it down, because if you don’t write it down you’re not going to look at it. You’re not going to remember it, that’s really important.
You need to write it down in a lot of detail.
Number 3, is that you want to visualize yourself as already having achieved your goals.
The way I always take a look at this is, think of the basketball player who has 2 seconds left in the game.
He’s going to take that game winning shot, he not only sees the ball going through the hoop. He sees himself afterwards celebrating before he’s even taken the shot. That’s what I mean by visualizing yourself having already achieved your goals.
There’s one aspect of goal setting that most people really don’t talk about, and that’s excuses. Why would I talk about excuses? In the past we’ve all set goals to do something and we all come up with different excuses as to why we are not meeting whatever goal or task that we have to do.
What I want you to do is write down all the excuses you’ve used for goal setting.
I want you to write them down. I want you to vow that in 2016 you’re not going to use those excuses anymore.
Goals for 2015, why would I talk about last years goals? Because I think it’s important if you set goals for last year, to review them. See which goals you’ve accomplished, which goals you haven’t. For the ones you have, cross it off your list or update them for 2016. If you didn’t meet the goal, take a look at why you may not have met them, whether it be an excuse or something else.
See if you think it’s important to put them again down for 2016. There’s a couple ways that I ensure that I look at my goals everyday. I think both ways work really well. Somebody once told me take your goals put them on an index card and put them by your toothbrush. Every morning when you wake up to brush your teeth, there’s your list of goals.
Take a look at them, review them. Good to review them if you can at night too. Certainly put them by your toothbrush, you’re not going to forget to remember them that way. The other way is, actually I have a big whiteboard here behind the phone.
I write down my goals when I sit down in the office it’s the first thing I look at right in front of me everyday. That’s another way to do that. Let me just recap for a minute.
Number 1, write down your goals.
Be as specific as possible, have deadlines.
Look at them everyday.
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