Why you shouldn’t
make New Year’s resolutions, instead you should set audacious goals
In the past,
I have always set a few New Year’s resolutions for myself. Maybe it was to lose a couple of pounds or
to start running again, or even just be a better person. It didn’t take long, but those resolutions
never really worked. I would give up
soon after starting if I ever really got started, leaving a feeling of not
having the will power to achieve anything.
The truth was that I wasn’t setting a resolution for me; I was setting
one that I thought the rest of the world would want. I stopped making resolutions and started
setting goals.
Goals are
essential in this life to achieve what YOU want and need. There are a few things that I like to keep in
mind when I set goals. 7 Key items
because there are 7 days in every week!
1.
Make at least ½ of your goals attainable in the
next 1-6 months. By doing this, it helps
to keep you motivated. If you need to
move that up today, do it. If all of
your goals are completely unattainable then you will lose your motivation and stop
trying altogether. So make sure that
you keep a few goals that will help to boost your motivation levels to the next
level.
2.
Make at least one goal that is far out there
that even superman isn’t sure it can be done.
That goal might look like this: “I would like to have 20 vacation houses in different
countries, and 2 private jets for myself and my family to travel the world.” That’s just one example. Here’s why you need to set that one crazy
goal. It means that you will most likely
never achieve it, but if you try to achieve it then you are a lot further than
if you never thought about it all. One
of my favorite things bring up in leadership coaching is that if you set your
goals for another galaxy and you don’t make it, who cares? You still made it further than if you never
tried at all!
3. Write
your goals down. This is another
important part of the process. Write your
goals down in several places. Personally,
I use a notebook that I usually have on me, another notebook that I keep different
notes in, and on a whiteboard in my home office. The two notebooks are just for me. That way no matter which one I have with me I
can look at my goals. The reason I use a
whiteboard is that then when my family comes into the office, they read my
board and ask questions about my goals. It
keeps me motivated and holds my feet to fire to stay on my goals.
4.
Don’t be afraid to share your goals with
others. Again another key part of
achieving your goals to have some accountability. When you tell someone your goals and dreams,
it brings them to life in a completely new perspective. Let’s say that your goal is to lose
weight. If you don’t tell anyone and
just start working out, they might be supportive but not as supportive as if you
told them what you are really trying to accomplish. After sharing my goals, I have seen friends drop
everything and help me stay on track to accomplish my goals; I have also been
that friend that dropped everything to help spur the motivation.
5.
Be specific when you choose your goals. If you are too broad with your goals then
they are too easily achieved, or even worse, you lose motivation because you can’t
get to the objective. I’m going to share
one of my goals with you for our business: be able to purchase a grill / cook
trailer, use it to support our customers, their employees, and our community by
June 2020. If our goal was, “buy a grill
to give back to our community.” This goal
lacks a lot. There is no period, no size
of the grill, the intention is there, but all of the details are missing.
6.
Set different goals! Don’t just focus on work or personal goals,
set both. Make a list of goals for your
career or business. Don’t forget to make
one extremely audacious, like be the CEO of a multi-100-BILLION $$$ company, or
maybe retire by the age of 35, or maybe not work more than 40 hours a week but
still make enough $$ to live a good life.
Some goals might transfer over to both lists, Retire by the age of 35,
or, my career will be so enjoyable that it doesn’t seem like work.
7.
Don’t be afraid of your goals. Set some goals that don’t scare you. If all of your goals scare the living crap
out of you then you’ll never look at them again. Make sure that you have a good mix of goals
that do scare you and those that seem like you can easily overcome and obtain .
This is just
my way of setting goals and keeping myself on track to ensure my success. There are a few more things that you should
keep in mind though. Try setting family
goals and goals with your spouse. Both of
these have been extremely beneficial for me. My wife and I set goals about 7 months ago
and it’s amazing how many 2-year goals we set that are already in full force. It’s also amazing how many 30-day goals we haven’t
even started, lol.
When I do anything,
I do my best to keep God at the front of it all. That doesn’t mean that I go to church every Sunday,
or that I feel that I’m a perfect person, in fact, I feel that I am far from the
person I need to be most of the time, but that’s for a different blog. Keep your faith in every aspect of your
life. For the longest time, I thought that,
God didn’t belong in my work life or in my goals. He was someone that I talked to when I needed
something. I have realized that he is much
more important than that, especially to me.
Therefore, I make it a point to keep him involved in every aspect of my
life, personal, and business.
I hope that
this helps you to ditch those yearly resolutions that most us lose by the end
of January and set some very attainable, and a few not so attainable goals that
will really help us change our lives.
Happy New A year and I'm sure this is going to be a GREAT year.
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