A
dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. - Bo Bennett
Great
achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of
selfishness. - Napoleon Hill
Arise!
Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda
First quarter of
2018 is almost complete…how are your advancing on your goals? The end of each quarter is always a wonderful
time to review how we are doing to determine if we need to make any changes to
our plan to accomplish our goals or if we need to continue progressing with the
same intensity as we have been in the first quarter over the next three
quarters of the year to accomplish our goals.
As I have been
conducting my quarterly review, I started questioning if I should continue with
my “stretch goal” of reading 50 books this year or change it. Contemplating this, I considered that I have
read 20 books so far and am in the middle of a couple more books. Now I will say that I did consider changing
this goal because I am “fearful” of not accomplishing it. However, I decided that at this point I am
going to continue to push forward. As I
recently told a friend I was talking to, I cannot set goals based on what I
“hope” happens in my life. I have to
continue pushing forward on my current goals and do quarterly reviews to
determine if my life circumstances changed to help determine if my goals need
to change.
The
danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short,
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo
Buonarrati
Here is a simply
process that I came up with to complete a quarterly goal review:
1.
Review benchmark
data and determine progress of goals.
2.
With those goals
that are not progressing, do the goals need to remain because they help fulfill
a personal purpose statement or should the goals be removed from the list for
the year?
3.
If the goals are
staying on the list, what new habit(s) need to be incorporated to accomplish
the goals?
A great way to help accomplish large goals may be to set smaller
goals. Would it be beneficial to break large
goals down into smaller goals such as a daily or weekly goal?
4.
Incorporate new
habits into life.
5.
Celebrate the
progress on the goals that have been accomplished!
The important thing is to
strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but
of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Goals are dreams with
deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt
Challenge: Complete your
quarterly goal review for the first quarter of 2018.
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