Life Goals
If you asked the average person what their life goals were, they'd likely give you some vague and common answer. You wouldn't believe the number of people we've worked with that struggled in the past to figure out their goals, but that doesn't need to be you.
Taking a step-by-step approach, we'll help you get to the core of your goals. Maybe it's not for your whole life, maybe it's just the next 10 years. That's enough to get you started on your path to achieving those goals.
Determine, discover, and hone your life goals
Step 1 - Get Ready
How do you relax?
Glass of wine?
Headphones on with some trance music blasting?
Maybe you're more of take the dog for a walk type of person.
Whatever it is, go do it. You need to be prepped for this session; we need your full attention, and we need your mind clear to get through the next few steps.
Step 2 - Dig Deep
Take a serious look inward.
Where are you in your life? How accomplished are you - in general, and compared to where you thought you would be by now?
Is it where you want to be?
Where do you want to be? What is it that keeps niggling in the back of your mind that you just can't ignore? Chances are that's your passion or your calling.
Retrieve it from wherever it is inside that big brain of yours and get it down on paper (or some other form of digital note-taking)
Step 3 - Define "Success"
You've got some bold ideas written down, and you've finally admitted to yourself what those tucked-away thoughts about what you really want to do with like.
What now?
Now, we need you to define what success looks like. Let's say you want to set up your own business; is registering the business the end? Of course not, making money and allowing you the freedom to quit your 9-5 is the real goal here. And that's what you need to figure out for each of those life goals you just wrote down.
Step 4 - Design Your Path
Once you have at least a first draft of those definitions of success, it's time to think about how you'll get there.
Let's say you want to open a restaurant, you can't just go do it tomorrow morning otherwise you would have already done it. There are steps to take, and likely steps in a certain order.
Perhaps you don't know what the steps are, or what order they need to be done in...so you need to research some.
That's what you'll do in this step; break down the steps from now to reaching your definition of success that you just determined.
Aim for imperfection, otherwise you will never be done.
When going through an exercise like this, we often see our students spend way too much time on this step, making draft versions after draft versions.
A perfect set of life goals is not your task here; getting the first draft of what you think those goals are is what you're doing here.
As you move through the rest of the program, you'll start to determine for yourself where you can make adjustments, and that's okay. In fact, it's better than okay - it means you're really thinking at the detailed level needed to make a real plan towards your goals.
It is simple, but it is not easy.