Write down your goal on paper and make it visible Activate your brain by putting pen to paper and writing down your goal in words and pictures. Doing this solidifies the goal in your mind and forces you to get crystal clear about what you’re striving for. Post your goal in the most visible place in your home or workspace, such as your bathroom mirror or the lock screen on your smartphone. Envision your future Take a few minutes to visualize your future. What will it feel like when you achieve your goal? What will your life look like? How will it affect your daily actions, your relationships, and how you see yourself? Write a paragraph that describes your future in detail—how it feels and looks and what you’ll do. Doing so will train your brain to connect the dots from where you are to the steps you need to take to achieve your goal. Whether it’s in athletics, business, or your personal life, visualizing your success will help you achieve it. Understand why you want to achieve your goal It’s important to truly know why you want to achieve a goal. When you have a deep and meaningful reason behind your goal, you’ll move mountains. There will be days when you want to give up and quit, but your why will allow you to overcome the temptation to stop.
Take consistent action for 90 days Why 90 days? Studies show that doing something for 90 days allows you to not only create new habits but also create a lifestyle change. Doing something consistently for 90 days makes you feel successful and sets the stage for future success. You’ll also learn there is more power in focusing on the process and next steps rather than on your end goal. Real change happens when small actions are taken consistently over time. Share with an accountability partner Fear often stops us from telling others about an important goal because we’re afraid we might not reach that goal. But sharing your goal with others gives you precisely what you need: increased commitment, accountability, and visibility. Try sharing your next goal with an accountability partner and watch what happens. As one proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
There is plenty of evidence to support how learning goal-setting skills and making them a habit will help you live a better life. Harvard Business School studied their MBA graduates and found that within 10 years of graduation the 3% of graduates who wrote down their goals earned up to 10 times more than the other 97% of graduates combined! Many of you have probably heard the powerful principle of making your goals SMART (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Timely). But that’s not the only step to achieve them! Here are some other skills to learn and implement so you can reach your goals faster and more frequently. Habits for reaching goals faster and more frequently
Use This 12-Week Plan Ready to get started? Work toward your next goals with the 12-week game plan on the following pages. Cut it out, fill it out, and hang it somewhere visible where you can track your progress over the coming weeks. Then get started making progress towards your goals!
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