Take Steps to Achieve Your Goals

Source: ConvergenceCoaching, LLC Inspired Ideas

The following includes excerpts, reproduced with permission, of a blog entry by Jack Lee.

I've been on a personal journey to learn more about setting and achieving my goals. The journey started by acknowledging that most of us do not engage in any sort of goal-setting process. We want success in our lives but reject the idea that we need to describe and envision that success and take actions that move us toward it.

Step 1 – We need to start setting goals. Step 2 – We need to get better at goal-setting and stop the behaviors that “sabotage” our success, including setting “weak” minimum performance goals, setting too many goals, or setting goals that are not specific and measurable. To effectively drive changed behavior and success, our goals need to be “difference making” stretch goals.

Step 3 – Goal-achieving. If you're serious about achieving your goals, you must willingly submit to a process of accountability, which includes:

• Making it “real” by putting your goals in writing
• Sharing your goals with others – boldly and openly
• Asking a mentor to hold you accountable
• Establishing a “return and report” process with interim action steps and milestones
• Reviewing your goals regularly and frequently
• Breaking your goals into “bite-sized” pieces, each with its own “by-when” date
• “Establishing momentum” by completing the first action step right away
• Identifying any “pieces” that can be delegated or assigned to others
• Getting better at skills needed to achieve your goals

In the end, it's results that matter. It's not about what you intended to do. It's about what you actually accomplished that made a difference in your life and the lives of others.

For the complete article, read “How to Move From Goal Setting to Goal Achieving.”

From Convergence Coaching, LLC Inspired Ideas, http://blog.convergencecoaching.com, August 10, 2011.