How do you make sure your actions every day contribute to your long-term goals? In this article we will explore five goal management systems and a practical way to keep you on track.
Align life mission to goals
Set goals that are directly aligned with your life’s mission and purpose. If your goals do not reflect your values or sense of mission, you will struggle to find the motivation to reach them. For example, if your highest value is “time with family”, you may want to consider building that into your goals. It will guide you to what you need to change in your life or where your focus should be.
Setting personal goals starts with your lifetime goals, which are followed by a series of lower-level goals. Goals and objectives are optimized by having a list of daily tasks. By setting up this structure, we are able to break down life into a number of small tasks that we need to do each day to reach the lifetime goals.
Envision what you want in the various facets of your life. Set additional long-term goals for yourself and determine what you want to be doing and where you want to be five to ten years from today, then use short-term goals to get there.
Gather ideas and convert them into projects
Make a habit of accumulating your inspirations, desires and ideas.
“Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind, and when those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them!” – Jack Canfield.
Jack Canfield, author of numerous books including “The Success Principles”, recommends a simple six-step process to help us gather our ideas in the form of a vision board. A vision board is a visualization tool which refers to a board of any sort used to build a collage of words and pictures that represent your goals and dreams. Let’s take a high-level viewpoint of how Canfield suggests we make an empowering vision board:
• Create a list of goals you would like to achieve in the next twelve months.
• Collect a bundle of old magazines with beautiful pictures.
• Find pictures that represent your goals and inspire you.
• Make a collage out of your photos/images.
• Add motivational affirmation words that represent how you want to feel.
• Take a few moments to contemplate your vision board every day.
This is a great time right now to begin your vision board for the upcoming months ahead. Your vision board exercise should be fun, kept, and looked at regularly. As you continue to grow, evolve and expand, your dreams and dream board or vision board will too.
Design your weekly progress
Successful people achieve in one year what many fail to achieve in their lifetime. Every day we receive emails and messages from current and past success partners and clients. They express appreciation for teaching them how to focus on the important things in their lives.
The ability to either ignore or delegate the non-important is a skill. This is not a difficult skill to learn, but it is a skill many think is not important. We will share several key ideas about this shortly, but for now, what I want to emphasize is that effective time-management is about identifying what is important and allocating enough time each day to working on urgent and important things. This is something most people don’t do. Allocate your twenty-four hours in the right place so you achieve the right results.
Understand the distinction between important and urgent
In a 1954 speech to the second assembly of the World Council Of Churches, former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was quoting Dr. J. Roscoe Miller, president of Northwestern University, said: “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important and the important are never urgent.” This ‘Eisenhower Principle’ is said to be how he organized his workload and priorities.
In order for us to organize our workloads and priorities, a fundamental understanding of the distinctions between ‘important’ and ‘urgent’ agenda items is necessary.
Important activities have an outcome that leads to us achieving our goals, whether these are professional or personal.
Urgent activities demand immediate attention, and are usually associated with achieving someone else’s goals. They are often the ones we concentrate on and they demand attention because the consequences of not dealing with them are immediate.
List all of the activities and projects that you feel you have to do. Try to include everything that takes up your time however unimportant. Think about each activity and put it into one of four categories:
1. Important and urgent;
2. Important but not urgent;
3. Not important but urgent;
4. Not important and not urgent.
Snowball your success
John C. Maxwell, leading expert on leadership and author, suggests that growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow will get better. Organize an intentional growth plan to jumpstart your personal growth. To do this, answer three questions:
1. Where am I?
2. Where am I going?
3. How will I get there?
We tend to think about our careers and personal development as one ongoing process- like a river flowing constantly. If we are swimming in that river, every so often you and I need to stop to take a breath. Taking a moment to create a personal development plan is like taking a very deep breath. Don’t hesitate to adapt the plan, life changes fast and we need to change with it. As Tony Robbins, peak performance coach and author puts it, “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
President Eisenhower once said: “Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” We can organize our workloads and priorities by aligning our life’s mission to our goals, gathering ideas and converting those ideas into projects, ignoring or delegating non-important tasks and being intentional about creating a personal development plan.
Finally, distinguishing between important and urgent agenda items, totally transforms our ability to review and adapt to the inevitable changes of life.
• Eliot Kelly is recognized as a serial entrepreneur and has been featured on CNN, BBC Three’s Be Your Own Boss and an extensive list of magazines and articles. His four books have been translated in over seven languages and are sold in 29 countries, recently being shortlisted for Best Self-Help and Best Advice Books 2019 by The Author Academy. He is regarded as a top sales, business and leadership management coach who creates opportunities for his success partners through financial literacy and life skills training. He is also a professional speaker and continues to inspire present and future entrepreneurs around the world. “You Know More Than You Think You Do” releases this Christmas! Pre-order today. Email: eliotlkelly@gmail.com, LinkedIn: Eliot Kelly, Facebook: facebook.com/eplatinumkelly, Instagram: @eliotkellyofficial.
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