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Goal Setting

Why Set Goals?

Goals are important from three perspectives.

1. At the beginning of the year, look at last year's goals and evaluate whether you achieved them; what's the point if you don't know where you've come in the last year? If you reply "what goals", well your resolution for this year should be to set goals and track them.

If you did achieve most of your goals, congratulations!

If not, you might realize that you didn't focus hard enough last year. Life happened and you let it get away from you. Guess what? You get to try it again this year. And it doesn't have to happen on January 1st - the right time to set goals is NOW!

2. Goals are important because last year's goals become the starting point for this year's goals.

Whatever your goals are, write them down and put them where you can see them. We wish we had a device that would "ding" every time we were going to stray from working toward those goals but, alas, it doesn't exist. Writing down your goals is the most important thing you can do to help keep yourself on track, and keep them in sight.

3. In a USA Today study reported last year, people who wrote down their New Year’s Resolutions were 11 times more likely to follow through on them than people who just thought about them, but failed to write them down.

Life Planning

Goal Setting is often not effective because people do not have a clear idea of what they want out of life - they have lost touch with their dreams. We have recently discovered a terrific Life Planning process which we thoroughly recommend.

Life Goal Setting

This will include family, physical, mental, spiritual, professional, financial, social and community goals - a life in balance is what we should strive for, although each segment of our life wheel does not need to be the same size (an common misconception), because some aspects of our life must be more important than others at particular times in our lives. The 10 Commandments of Goal Setting will help set the scene.

Now, try the following exercise, which really works - we've done something like it for years.

First write a complete list of life goals (not necessarily for the coming year) under the headings:

• Do - eg. hike the Grand Canyon

• Go - eg. to the Holy Land

• Be - eg. a better listener

• See - eg. the Aurora Borealis

• Share - eg. 10% of my income with my church

• Have - eg. $2,000 a month from my business

Then, arrange the list under the 8 headings (family, physical, mental, spiritual, professional, financial, social and community), decide which you want to accomplish this year, and transfer the most important to your 12 Goals Sheet. Write these goals in the present tense, as though a year has already passed and each of the goals has already been achieved. Check to be sure your goals will help balance your Life Wheel - low numbers should have associated goals that will bring the score up in those areas.

Now ask yourself this question, “What one goal on this list, if I were to accomplish it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?” (not on your business.)

Whatever your answer to that question becomes your Major Definite Purpose for the year. Transfer this answer to the top of the Major Definite Purpose Sheet and make a list of everything that you can think of that you can do to achieve that purpose.

From this day forward, do something every day on your list. Dedicate yourself to do something seven days a week, 30 days each month that moves you toward the accomplishment of your most important goal. This simple exercise will change your life in ways that you cannot today imagine.

Now take the other 11 goals from your 12 Goals Sheet and develop a Life Plan to achieve those goals.

The key to Success and happiness is optimism and self-confidence. You become an optimistic person by continually thinking about the things you want and working on the goals that are most important to you. You develop confidence from the feeling of forward motion in the direction of goals that you have set for yourself.

The most important key to Success is Action. Resolve to take action everyday in the direction of the things that are most important to you. Never let a day go by without you having done something that moves you one step closer to your most cherished goals.

Business Goal Setting

Your business goals and Success will only be as good as those for your life. Once you've completed your Major Definite Purpose and Action Plan above, complete the 12 Goals Sheet for your business, and develop an Business Action Plan to achieve those goals too.

Use your sponsor, the Virtual Franchise Owner's Manual Chapter 2 and these to help you set effective, meaningful goals:

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