How To Make A Dang Good Goal, Part 1
When it comes to goals, your relationship can be quite complicated. Usually, you are on one side of the spectrum— you have a million+ goals or you’re the guy with zero. I want talk to both kinds of people. To the person, who has more goals and often less follow through, and to the person who never starts, because you’re overwhelmed. Goals are for everyone. If goal-making is a natural sport to you, then maybe there’s room to refine your craft. If the idea of making a goal makes you want to run away and hide, then let me tell you, there is hope for you too.
Three keys:
Give yourself time to develop what matters to you
Get specific
Keep it simple
Before you have a Goal, you must have a Vision. The Vision is the whole picture, where you want to end up. The Goal(s) is the step(s) that get you there. In the Vision process it is vital to push away negativity or small thinking. You need to jump into a room in your mind where anything can be possible. This is not fluff! If you want to do great things, you must practice believing there’s a way beyond your current limitations.
A mindset of possibility allows you to get into creative visualization and clearly articulate your life without self-created limitation. a few things to consider when writing your vision and goals:
• Let your past be in the past. we tend to look at the past in order to create our future, yet a goal set from the past will likely create more of what already exists, and inherently has limitations
• Remove perceived constraints. what limitations do you create for yourself that don't actually exist? 'I don't have enough money'. 'I don't have the time'
• Be aware of any ways you may accidentally set goals from below the line. ask questions like: is this goal written from fear?
Your vision for your life will inspire your goals. the purpose of setting your vision is to create a clear picture of your chosen life so your goals become powerful and meaningful to you. The vision articulates what you are out for in life and your greatest ambitions. It will give you something to get excited about and get you headed in the right direction.
You are powerful and have creative freedom over your life.
Pull out your journal and a pen. Below are a list of rhetorical questions. Read through all the questions below without pausing, then at the end, answer them as if you’re writing your story. From the time you wake up, to the end of the night— Describe what you see, hear and feel in your ideal life.
VISION EXERCISE
Imagine your life 10 years from today.
• That’s 520 weeks from now or 3650 days.
• You are unlimited. You can be and do anything in the world.
If time, money, education, experience were no issue, you had zero constraints in the world, what would you do?
What does it look like? What does it feel like?
What does it feel like to love every minute of your life?
What are your core values?
What is most important to you?
How are you using your unique talents in service of others?
What difference are you making?
How are you living into your legacy?
Where will you live?
What type of home will it be?
What will the community feel like around you?
Will you have more than one home?
Who is there with you?
Are you single, married, living with friends?
Do you have children, pets, or maybe plants?
Do you work?
If you are working, where from (an office, your home, the beach?)
Do you volunteer?
Do you go to school? Form of education?
Are you creative? What are you making?
How do you bring fun into your life?
Do you go on adventures?
Do you travel? Where to?
What type of lifestyle do you have?
Do you hike, do you practice yoga, do you run marathons, do you swim in open water?
What do you do in your free time?
How do you take care of yourself?
What are you grateful for?
Who do you really want to be?
What do you really want to have?
Where do you really want to be?
Where do you really want to go?
Take at least 10 minutes writing your vision, without fear.