I set myself up for failure…
“At the beginning of each year, I write down a single goal for the year in four areas of life: health, wealth, social, and personal. And I make each goal significant, yet specific.”
I figured if I tried and failed, at least I tried. So I set significant, but specific goals. For my health, the goal was to get in better shape. Specifically, I said I’d reduce my body fat percentage by 15%. And I said I’d get there by making specific improvements in my diet.
The biggest thing that setting these four goals did for me was it focused my energies for the year.
Instead of pursuing all kinds of different things (as I usually would), I focused on accomplishing four specific things… things that I’d thought a lot about and decided were important to me.
I strongly urge you to do what I’m doing… to take a good amount of time and write down what you really want to accomplish in 2007. Set one goal in each of these four areas:
1. Your health
2. Your wealth
3. Your personal self (hobbies and interests)
4. Your social self (friends, family, and community)
And remember to make sure that each goal is significant, yet specific.
Also I highly recommend that you write these goals down and share them with someone that you’ll feel accountable to a year from now. Make yourself a promise that you’ll go over those goals with that person one year from now to see how you did.
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoring.” - Bill Copeland
Set those four goals now…
and make sure they’re significant, but specific!
Best wishes in the New Year,
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