Goal Setting - Setting outcomes
How often do you write down your goals or desired outcomes? Do you set goals weekly, monthly, daily or yearly or not at all? How often do you achieve your goals? What was the last goal you achieved for yourself? Do you achieve your goals? I think setting goals is important, because let’s face it if you have no desired goal, then you have no direction and you run the risk of just drifting and letting life pass you by.
Time waits for no man. Six months from now what do you want to have in your life that you don’t have at the moment? What about 1 year from now, or 5 years? Where do you want to be?
Most of us have some sort of goal, even if it’s to pay off the mortgage. For some it might be to save up for a holiday or to buy that new car you have always wanted. For others it might be something more personal. Maybe you have career goals, relationship goals, health goals, financial goals, or self development goals.
Here are a few examples:
- Lose weight
- Become financially independent
- Learn a language
- Get a promotion at work
- Find a new partner
- Learn to sing
- Learn to play the Guitar
- Climb Mount Everest
Have you ever written down your goals or are they parked away in the back of your mind? I wonder how many people would rather watch TV then actually spend time writing down their goals? Maybe people don’t write down their goals because they don’t believe they can achieve them?
If you don’t have goals, how will you ever achieve anything in life? Goals are fundamental to success in life?
One way I have recently learnt is to use NLP to help clarify what the goal is by way of asking certain specific questions. This way it helps you become clear in your own mind what exactly it is that you want, why you want it and how you will know when you attain it.
Try asking yourself the following questions in relation to your specific goal; Maybe write them on a piece of paper, or type them out, then print it out and stick it somewhere where you will see it every day.
- What specifically do you want?
- What will that do for you?
- What will this outcome get for you or allow you to do?
- How will you know when you have got it?
- What will you see hear and feel?
- How will someone else know when you have got it?
- What is the first step?
- What is the last step?
- When, where and with who do you want it?
- How long do you want it for?
- Is the outcome in keeping with your sense of who you are?
- What do you get out of your current behavior that you would wish to preserve?
- What time frame will this outcome need?
- Who else is affected and how will they feel?
- How does it fit in with your other outcomes?
- How does it increase your choices?
- What will happen if you get it?
- What won’t happen if you get it?
- Can you start and maintain it?
- What resources have you already got (skills, people, money, objects etc)?
- What resources do you need?
- Who has already succeeded in achieving this outcome?
When you are clear about what your goal is and what you have to do to get it, you can begin to take steps to work towards getting it. Try it and see how you get on!
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