Upgrade Your Goals to Reinventing Yourself and Match your Actions

In most places across the world, a new year is upon us, making for a great time to set new goals or evaluate our progress towards current ones. No matter if your goal is big or small, here are a few helpful tips to ensure you are smarter with your 2020 goal setting.

1. Write your goals down

Writing down your goals helps to make them more real and tangible. Instead of keeping your goals in your head, write them down on a piece of paper or in a notebook or journal. Throughout the year, you can reference back to the goals you wrote down to ensure you focus on completing them.

1. Make your goals visible

After you write down your goals, post them in your office, bedroom, or workspace for daily reminders on what you are working towards. Having your goals on display can help ensure they are not forgotten about. Plus, having your goals on display can motivate others. When someone sees it, they can be inclined to help you achieve it, or use it as motivation to set their own goals.

1. Set SMART goals

As you set your goals, ask yourself if they are SMART. What exactly are SMART goals? They are:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Timely

Using this method to set goals ensures they are clear, attainable, and meaningful. Following this methodology will lead to more success in following through and accomplishing more this year. For more information on SMART goals, click here.

1. Think about the big picture

In a leadership position, you must think about more than just yourself and your personal goals. How will achieving them impact those around you? As you sit down to set your goals, think about this question and make sure accomplishing your objectives won’t negatively affect others.

7. Match your Goals to Powerful actions

8. Modify as you go

You may find that after you set your goals and work to achieve them, things change. While you may need to update your plan to achieve your goals, or even the change goals themselves, stay focused. Obstacles may slow you down, but don’t let them deter you from accomplishing your objectives.

9. Accountability

Integrity, Crediblity and Capacity all dance together in how accountable you are. You know those 3 monkeys, hidden eyes, ears and mouth ? They speak the truth about how we often have to hide away our words, what we see and hear when we cannot line them up. When we do, link our thoughts, with our feelings and our words and action, we do that thing we call "Walk the talk". That is where integrity lives, where we are accountable to what we say... we do aligned and powerful action.

This is how goal setting becomes a powerful force in our lives as we begin to dynamically reinvent ourselves into a new version of who we are. Never getting stopped by our distractions, upsets or 'failures'. This takes skills training and an inside out growth Mindset.

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