In this video, you’ll get an overview of winning tools you can use to support goal creation and execution. You’ll learn techniques to rewire past habits that do not serve you. And finally, learn some tips that will help you complete tasks, which lead to goal attainment.
Video Transcript
Consciously, you know that wealthy, innovative, and successful people achieve their goals because they know what direction they are going. It isn’t magic; these folks are laser-focused on their goal. They intentionally create habits that ensure their tasks and actions are completed in service to their broader goal.
How can you do this too? First, answer a couple of questions as you start to create your 2018 goals.
What area of your life do you want to optimize?
Is it Health, Family & Relationships, Career, Wealth, or something else? Take time to stack rank what is important to you and where you want to focus in 2018. Please do not skip this step.
Second, as it relates to your top choice, what do you want to achieve?
Write this goal in the present tense. Pick only one “big goal” to work on throughout the year.
By associating purpose and feelings to the goal, how would you feel and what you would see when you have accomplished the goal, you help your subconscious engage into goal realization. The subconscious brain can’t differentiate from the thought of you realizing the goal and actual goal attainment.
Lastly, answer in the positive and use the B-SMART goal setting framework. This means the way you write this goal is Believable, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic or Repeatable and Timely.
Examples of well-formed, B-SMART goals:
Extrinsically motivated:
I am so happy and grateful I am earning $______ as the founder of an innovative tech company that makes the world a better place by 8 am, January 1, 2019.
or
Intrinsically motivated:
I am so happy and grateful that I have obtained my healthy weight through diet, exercise, and 10,000 daily steps by 8 am, July 1, 2018.
You’ll notice in these examples that there is no mistake about how winning is defined or by when. You MUST define both of these things.
Next, you are finally at the point where you can determine the tasks that will get you there. Here’s where you make the goal attainable and know exactly what you must do to cross the finish line.
When asked, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet stated the #1 talent that contributed to their success was their ability to focus.
So, if you are like many of us who fall into the trap of constantly checking email or are distracted by the shiny object or the phone ring pulls you off task, understand that this is caused by your need for an immediate endorphin release.
Now, if you can focus or are ready to learn how to focus, consider incorporating a mindfulness practice, journaling, or creating a task/accomplishment list to support shifting and owning how you receive your endorphin release.
All success in life is based on task completion. When you complete your most important tasks, tasks YOU’VE CONSCIOUSLY identified as important. You are releasing endorphins.
Research tells us that 90 percent of diets and gym memberships are abandoned within 7 to 10 months, and only three percent are maintained at the end of two years.
Design your path to become the three percent by developing a daily routine.
By creating a healthy habit for completing a task, rather than focusing on email or the bottom 80% on your task list, you are fighting to achieve the top 20% of tasks that will move you closer to goal attainment and sustainment.
Remember, everything is hard before it is easy, we are reestablishing the habit of focus as an automatic response. You can rewire your habits by creating successful practices focused toward your B-SMART goal. Once your goal is stated in the positive, then create actions or tasks that can be accomplished to give you the endorphin release and reward.
Start a daily self-care routine:
- Check out the Pomodoro technique to eliminate distraction
- Use a tool like the Veevra app (in private beta) to identify your optimum career path and create a plan to maintain daily tasks
- Start a mindfulness practice using the Calm or Headspace app or journaling
- Take a walk or time alone to think and be, versus always doing
Inspire yourself to engage your creative confidence, develop mindfulness and purpose to your goal, focus on the tasks that will attain your goal, and empower yourself to achieve your goal. Give yourself permission to own your goal.
Well, we covered a lot of material in a short amount time. To improve goal realization reach out to a like-minded friend who will be your accountability partner or hire a coach who aligns with your values. Find someone who will provide you techniques to sustain goal motivation and task completion to take your 2018 goal across the finish line.
Thank you so much,
Michelle Zeiser