Do you set yourselves up for success while setting goals?
It’s almost the end of the year.
You might have been taking stocks of wins and losses.
You might have been setting goals for the year(s) to come.
I love to get very geeky about clarity – in all areas and on all levels. (If it calls for, I will even ask my clients why they go brush their teeth every morning without fail. 😉)
If you are a high-achiever like me, we eat goal-setting as breakfast.
We love finding that shortest line between now and the goal.
The thing is the path to achieving those goals can be treacherous.
Furthermore, our goals come in abundance!
We love challenges and we thrive with a full plate.
Sometimes, we stuff ourselves and hold down the vomiting sensation and get going.
So, exactly, how do we set the right among of goals and set ourselves up for success from the beginning?
This is my own practice for over 2 decades which helped me to move from an intern to a high-level managerial role in charge of 4 departments in one of the most vibrant and growing market.
In one of Tony Robbin’s documentaries, he said, “Most people over-estimate what they can do in a year and under-estimate what they can do in 10 years.”
My hierarchy of things go
➡️10-year vision (or if 10 years are too unimaginable for you, 3 or 5 years are what you should go for.)
➡️ 5-year milestones (set of criteria I believe will get me to the 10-year vision)
➡️ 1-year goal(s) (which I believe will carry me to my 5-year milestones)
You see, l leave a lot of leeway in between. Don’t jam everything up. If it is jammed up, nothing flows.
Maximum, I have 4 goals a year. No more.
➡️ I make sure each goal is bound with each other.
Which means, if anything happens as life always happens outside of our planning and I only get to work on one of them, I could be confident that I will reach all of them.
You goals should be able to help you to get to themselves. 😎
Last but not least,
➡️ I always make sure I have BOTH INTERNAL and EXTERNAL goals.
A huge factor and very overlooked of manifesting success is about the person we are.
One of my favorite coaches, Rich Litvin, always says, “The goal is where we are coming from; not where we are going to.”
We come from within.
We have to be that person who get to achieve that goal.
Not tactics. Not another hard skill. Not more actions. BUT ourselves.
When within and without is not balanced, you can be sure unnecessary time and energy will go into dealing the imbalance instead of getting to your vision.
Who you are within will determine what you are without.
➡️ It’s never too late to review your clarity of a Love-Infused life vision.
➡️ It always takes adjustment and tweaks as life goes.
Be love and be loved.
May you live your dream instead of dreaming your dream.