Focusing On Your Goals

Just a quick reminder on ways to stay focused in the last 2 months of this year. Wow, this year is almost over. Did you hit your goals? I hit a few, yet I still have a long way to go on many. I must do a better job to reach my goals also. Keep these steps in mind as you are on your journey.

Write out your goals If you haven’t written out your goals, then you’re missing the most important part of effective goal setting. When you don’t write your goals, they stay in the abstract. You have to write them down and get very specific about them.

If you want to stay focused on your goals, then you need to ensure you’re tackling them in the right way. This is also called active goal setting, which is the direct opposite of the passive goal setting that most people engage in.

Passive goal setting simply holds the goal in your mind. While the details might be sorted out somewhere in the confines of your thoughts, it’s still in the abstract because it’s never been written out and detailed on paper before you.

Create a mission statement If you’re serious about your goals, you need a mission statement. Companies create mission statements all the time, so why shouldn’t you? The mission statement should help direct your time and energy towards the things that matter most to you and help you stay focused on those all-important goals.

What do you value? What do you believe in? What do you want to achieve or accomplish? How are you doing things differently than others? Create a detailed mission statement in 4 or 5 sentences and hang it somewhere you can see it every single day.

When you get distracted or lose your focus, re-read your mission statement and re-envision why you’re doing what you’re doing on a daily basis.

Effectively manage your time It’s virtually impossible to stay focused on your goals if you can’t manage your time. Become an effective time manager and you’ll see yourself progressing rather than falling behind. Pick a time management system that works and work it.

One of the best ones out there is the quadrant time management system. It splits your daily activities up into four separate quadrants based on two factors: 1) urgency, and 2) importance. Things are either urgent and important, neither of those two, or one or the other.

The point, however, is to stay away from time-wasting activities, which are the not urgent and not important. It’s easy to lose focus on your goals when you’re engaged in these activities for much of the day, which includes things like excessively using social media, binge watching television, and over-socializing with friends.

Develop milestones towards your goals Sometimes it’s hard to stay focused on our goals because they seem so far off. How are we supposed to stay motivated today, for a goal we’re looking to achieve one, two, three, or even 5 years from now? No doubt it’s difficult. But, it’s far easier if you can create a set of milestones towards your goals.

Create a set of milestones that will help you move towards your goals without losing your focus. For example, you can set a monthly milestone or even a weekly milestone. It’ll help you stay on track as you reach for that long-term goal.

To create your milestones, just break down your goals into equal parts. For example, if you’re looking to reduce your debt by $12,000 in the next year, then you need a monthly milestone of $1000 in debt reduction. Then, you can go can even further by breaking that monthly milestone that down into weekly milestones of $250 in debt reduction, for example, or even daily milestones as well.

It’s much easier to stay focused and on track towards milestones because they seem more reasonable than our long-term goals, yet, it’s still sending us in the same direction. Carefully construct a set of milestones that will help you move forward rather than holding you back towards achieving your goals.

Reference: 8 Ways to Stay Focused on Your on Goals, Wanderlust Worker

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James Henderson MS, MBA, CSCS Performance Enhancement Coach Coachjames56@gmail.com (714) 234-6552

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