In
order to achieve your goals, you must make sacrifices, commit daily, overcome
challenges and work your plan. No one can do it for you. It is your
responsibility. (This post has links).
The
Twelve-Step To Goal Achievement
If
you are passionate about achieving your goals our Twelve-Steps to Goal
Achievement will help you write and implement an achievable goals plan that
will forever change your life.
1.
Spend quality time alone developing your goals.
I
advise you to get alone in a quiet place, away from the distractions of life,
and begin to develop your goals plan. Put away your mobile devices, shut down
the computer and turn off the television. Tell your family and friends this is
your set time for developing your present and future goals plan, and you do not
want to be disturbed. Do you have a quiet time and place set aside for goal
discovery? Take this time to get in the
presence of God, get into some praise and worship, talk to him about your
plans, be specific, seek his direction and his will for you.
3. Create measures to success
Now that you have defined your goals the next step is to create ways to
measure your progress. It’s not enough to say I have a goal, but you need to
have a way to measure your progress. Do you have short term goals? Long Term? The Life Area – spiritual, relational, physical, social, financial, mental or professional.
Dates – Hold yourself accountable with a Start date, target completion date and actual completion date.
4. Define possible opportunities for success
One of the keys to stay motivated in achieving your goals is to create your
opportunities for success. I personally like to list three to four
opportunities and then I seek them. I begin to connect with new people, I research and so forth. You can list as many opportunities for success as you desire. Your list will become a huge motivator in achieving your goals when times of discontentment, discouragement and doubt come.
5. Identify obstacles to success
Now that you have spent time seeking God for your goals, you have written
them down, set measures to success and sought possible opportunities for success
everything should be perfect, right? Wrong! Obstacles will come to detour you, frustrate you, make you cry, push you to the edge.Identify all the obstacles that you know have the potential to detour your goals achievement. Even after you have identified obstacles that you know might come against your goals achievement, please be aware that there will be some obstacles that may come out of nowhere. Your job is to remain focus on your goals despite where the obstacles originate.
6. Breakdown goals into manageable action steps
When you have a large goal that you want to accomplish, the best thing to do
is break your large goal into smaller more manageable action steps. If you
focus on how big the large goal is it can become too overwhelming and lead
to frustration and quick burn out.If you take the large goal and break it down into smaller measurable action steps you set yourself up for success because you make your large goal more obtainable. Consider the 90-Day Goal Planner and Workbook to get you started, click here.
7. Identify people, resources or skills needed
As I mentioned in Step 4, You may have to take a class or do an in depth
self-study on a particular subject to educate yourself on a new skill or
re-educate yourself on an old skill that you will need. Don’t be ashamed or too
prideful to ask for help. You can’t do it alone. You will need the support,
encouragement and assistance of others. Identify and acquire the resources,
skills and/or people you will need to achieve your goals and go to work.
8. Create new habits
Forming new habits is hard. It requires daily action. The promise of rewards
will drive you in the beginning. But if you don’t remain consistent and
committed, after a couple of weeks, your drive will fade out and you will
return to business as usual. If you want your new habits to stick, believe you
can change, and take action.
9.Take action.
Once you have a written goals plan it is your responsibility to take the
appropriate action to achieve them. You can’t wait for the right deal, the
right people to support you or the right situation to happen before you take
action. You could have written the awesome, most outstanding
goal possible, but if you don’t take a course of action to implement your plan,
your goal will remain a stagnant dream.
10. Monitor your goals regularly
As you move forward with your goals, it is important to periodically monitor
them to know where you are in case if you have to make any adjustments or
changes. You may find that you need to go right instead of left or you may have
to extend the time for completing an action step or the overall goal. This is allowed. You may
discover that a goal you set needs to be eliminated because it no longer aligns
with your life’s vision. Monitoring your goals regularly will put you on the
right course to goals achievement.
11. Reward yourself… Yes Celebrate!
I don’t want to make achieving your goals all work. You have heard the
saying, “all work and no play makes you dull”. During the process of reaching
your goals you need to celebrate with rewards that follow key steps in your action
plan. This will help enforce your desire to move forward to the next step.
12. Keep moving forward
Five motivators to help you keep
moving forward in your goals progress.a. Commit to your specific goals path regardless of setbacks, challenges or failures.
b. Continually surround yourself with people who will encourage your forward movement.
c. Consistently show up every day to do the work necessary to achieve your goals.
d. Confidently operate in your abilities, talents and gifts.
e. Courageously fight through the temptation to quit.
There
is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation and faith. Visit with me at the entrepreneur hub www.albahenderson.com or join the free members only group for motivation, resources, tools and push bit.ly/YourGoalsMatter.
