Goal Setting for 2015

Have you set your goals for 2015? After taking the 6 Personal Perspectives of Leadership class last week I really believe setting goals is crucial in becoming successful. Not just 1 or 2 goals a year, but weekly, monthly and yearly goals.

Here are 3 tips on goal setting for 2015:

1.       Start to make goals for your personal life, business, and finances  

It is important to set goals in every aspect of your life – not just in your business. To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of the following categories or in other categories of your own, where these are important to you:

·         Career – What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?

·         Financial – How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?

·         Education – Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?

·         Family – Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?

·         Physical – Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

Spend some time brainstorming   these things, and then select one or more goals in each category that best reflect what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals that you can focus on. As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve.

2.       Once you have your BIG Goals for the year -  get smaller ones for the month/week

Start with what you want to accomplish in the next year. Then once you have decided on that write down the goals you would like to set monthly to reach your annual goal. Then go into weekly goals to be able to make the monthly goals. Here is a spread sheet from the 6 Personal Perspective Leadership class that really helps you break all of your goals down.

3.       Have SMART Goals

A useful way of making goals more powerful is to be SMART.

·         S – Specific (or Significant)

·         M – Measurable (or Meaningful)

·         A – Attainable (or Action-Oriented)

·         R – Relevant (or Rewarding)

·         T – Time-bound (or Trackable)

For example, instead of having "to have more closings" as a goal, it's more powerful to say "To have 18 closings by October 3rd, 2015." Obviously, this will only be attainable if a lot of preparation has been completed beforehand!

When you set clear, passionate and definitive goals you will find that this process naturally increases your desire, passion, and motivation to become the best “YOU” you can be. The process of goal setting naturally focuses your awareness not only onto your future, but it also redirects it internally on to yourself. Goal setting will help you identify both your strengths and weaknesses, as well as possible unfulfilled desires that have been in the back of your mind for years.

If you have not taken the 6 Personal Perspectives of Leadership class, I highly recommend it. It really helped me become aware of exactly what I want in the year of 2015 and how I can get there.

If you need help setting your marketing goals for 2015 CONTACT ME  or sign up for my BUSINESS BUILDER CLASSES starting in Jan 2015!