Jan 3, 2022
If you don’t design your life, someone else will. In the IntHerrupt season five kickoff, Linda shares her eight-step process to set and accomplish your goals for the new year that will help you achieve every goal you ever set.
Step One: Look at where you spend your time.
- Throughout the last year, look at what you spent time on, the projects you accomplished, and the responsibilities you had.
Step Two: What was the outcome of how you spent your time?
- Debrief what went well, what could’ve gone better, and where you should spend more time.
- Reflect on what is going on in your life or business and differentiate what you can and can’t control.
Step Three: Ask what you would do in your career, business, or life if you could do anything?
- If there were no limits on your life, where would you want to be?
- Playing make-believe, daydreaming, envisioning- whatever you want to call it, allow yourself to dream beyond where you are now.
- Don’t self-regulate those dreams based on where you are now.
Step Four: Go back and spend more time on Step Three.
- Let’s face it; you probably didn’t spend enough time there.
Step Five: Put the pen to the paper.
- There is tons of research that has shown writing something down sends mental triggers to your brain.
- Write down six objectives or goals you want to accomplish, and prioritize them in order of importance.
Step Six: Cross off the bottom five objectives.
- Remember that list? Yeah, cross everything off that isn’t number one.
- Focusing on the one goal you decided was most important will help you fully commit to that one single goal.
Step Seven: Make an action plan.
How are you going to make that goal happen?
Make a list of quick wins that you can have by the end of the month - this helps you stay motivated and on track to achieve a large-scale goal that might be difficult to visualize.
Step Eight: Decide when to say no.
- It’s okay to say no (check out this great IntHerrupt episode all about it.)
- Make a list of the good things that will keep you from achieving your one great objective.
- Think about whether to delete, defer, or delete these good things that might prevent you from achieving the goal.
If you utilize this eight-step process, you’ll find goal-setting far easier and position yourself in a way to best achieve those goals!
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