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Organizing Your Goals Can Enable Fantastic Success
In this episode, I take the show on the road and talk about goals. While I have only recently become a supporter of establishing goals in life and business, I find the practice of setting milestones and markers along your journey fulfilling and empowering.
There are 3 distinct segments in the episode.
Segment 1 – Goals Make You Accountable
In segment 1, you’ll hear about goals making you more accountable. You establish goals in order to serve as incentive. You want to do something and having that goal written down will most likely push you to do it.
Merely writing the goal down will serve as incredible motivation going forward. Oh, and make sure you write down where you stored your goals. I have a tendency to forget where I put things. Would hate to have you go through the same.
Segment 2 – Establishing Timelines for Your Goals
Segment 2 continues with the process of setting up your goals in chunks. Some goals should be set for the near term while other goals can be marked for later. You probably want to focus on the next year only though as things change so fast, especially for busy parents.
Think about how you want to distribute what you want to accomplish in the next several weeks and months. Then, think about how these items interrelate and lead into each other. Finally, think about what other life events you may have going on that may cause disruption in accomplishing these goals.
Segment 3 – The Mental Side of Goals
Segment 3 wraps up the topic of goals with a hard subject for many. What happens if you don’t accomplish what you set out to do? What happens if you revisit that goal and don’t get to check it off?
The important thing here is to understand that this is all a process. Even a little bit of progress is still progress. Perhaps you didn’t fully accomplish your defined goal yet you can create a few lower level items that you did do and mark those off.
Summary
I hope you enjoyed this episode and really started to think about what goals mean to you. Hopefully in the next day or so, you will sit down and write about some of the things you want to accomplish in the upcoming time period.
Also, I’d love some feedback on what you thought about the episode? Did you like the format?
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I need to set some goals as i am stuck in a rut. I need to grow more on my blog.
Hi Tara….I would suggest sitting down over the weekend and spending about 5-10 minutes jotting down a few items. They can start pretty simple. All of the sudden you might write a few more. You’ll be surprised at how much you might write down if you just set aside a few minutes to try. What in particular are you looking to grow in regard to the blog? audience? content? money?