Grouping Your Goals

So yesterday I wrote about how it is best for you to make a big list of all of your goals for next year as well as all of your accomplishments and non accomplishments for this year. I hope you really took this taks seriously and made big lists. Both of my list for this years stuff and next years goals are up aropund 100 items.

Of course there is no way that you can nail 100 things for next year, if you try to accomplish too much then you will end up doing nothing well. So it is now important to start grouping the things on this list. How many of these things go together? Is there a two week vacation that will cover a lot of those travel urges? Do you have a lot of household type task that you can get done all in a weekend? Do you have various health and fitness goals that kind of dovetail each other?

I know that a lot of the goal setting pros would say keep a small list but what you really want to do is have a manageab,e set of goals that will change your life. What 5 or 10 of these goals would really be impressive to complete? Which 5 or 10 goals are really stepping stones to changing your life next year? How many of the itmes on your list are going to make a differenece to your family and friends that you really do want to accomplish?

The next thing to do after you have your 5 or 10 big goals for the year is to figure out the steps to accomplishing your goals and look at a calendar for getting them penciled in.

I will give a couple of examples:

I want to improve my typing skills to type 70 word per minute by the ned of March

OK, to achive this I will need to look at the steps. I know I am at 30 wpm and will need to improve punctuation. I will dedicate myself to a typing program (I already have it) and will do one 5 minute class 5 days a week until I have my speed up.

I want to run a 10k race in June of this year.

To do this goal I am going to need a race at that time of year. So I will need to research in the first week or two of the year to find the race. I will need to start a training program and since it is winter all of my training will have to be indoors (not the same thing as running, believe me). I will need to start doing some 5k runs starting April 1st at the latest and will nee to research in the first week of March to know what to do as a training schedule.

All this really is is getting a feel for what it will take in a newar perfect world to get your goals setup that are important to you and get a few steps into a calendar. Thisw is critical to be sure but as you do the calendar remember that you will also find out as things and time overlap whether each of these goals is really important to you or not.

Put all of this together and tomorrow we will talk about what can stop your from achiving your goals.

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