Goal Setting

GOAL SETTING -- 2012

Personal and professional coaching that fits into the life you have

to assist you in creating the life you desire and deserve.

Jo Christie, Life Coach

jochristie18@mac.com

941-266-7077

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As energy flows where attention goes, be sure to pay attention to your energy and keep focused on your vision. Be sure to appreciate all that you have and all that you create. Be sure your action is inspired and enjoyable.

Be thoughtful here. I feel sure you already have a vision for yourself, you keep track of your energy and your focus and you have long and short term goals in place. What you will be doing this year is looking at the soft spots. After all the world is changing everyday so if we are going to grow on the leading edge we really need to keep on top of our game. Look at what has been working and what hasn’t. Get rid of the latter and build on the former. if you don’t have a tracking system for your business develop one. If you are working on personal issues get a buddy. Have regular check in support. Be sure your action is inspired and enjoyable.

A + B + ACTION PLANNING = C

Go to the Balance page and figure out where you are. If you are thinking in terms of your business give me a call and we can work out a wheel that is ideal for your particular business.
Decide where you want to start, and create a vision.
Brainstorm solutions and ideas of growth. Come up with 30 or 40 or more!!!
Go back and pick a few and start working on the goals.
Know the 5 major changes you want to see this year.

Setting Goals – Six Characteristics of Highly Effective Goals:

WRITTEN
a. Makes it more real.
b. Increases conscious and subconscious awareness.
c. You’ll notice more people, resources, information and opportunities that are available to achieve your goal.

2. USES PRESENT TENSE
a. Enables brain to visualize goal and start seeing it as real.
b. Don’t say “I will,” state in present tense so it pulls you forward.
c. What’s more powerful: “I will eat more healthy.” “I eat healthy foods and feel great about myself.”

3. STATED POSITIVELY
a. We think in pictures.
b. The mind focuses on what you think about. If you think: “I will not eat junk food,” the mind focuses on the junk food. Using a sports analogy, such as golf, If you think: “I’m not going to hit the ball in the water,” guess where the ball goes? In the water! KEY: Focus on where you want to go or what you want to do.  
4. SPECIFIC & MEASURABLE
a. Clarity attracts.
b. Must give you a purpose.
c. Ambiguous goals produce diluted results.
d. Don’t say, “I want to be happy or have more money.” (If you find a dollar on the ground you suddenly have more money – is that what you really want??)
e. Get specific, what does more money or happiness look like for you?

5. TIME BOUND
a. It’s human nature to put things off… we get comfortable or busy or lazy
b. Most people work best with a deadline.
c. Give yourself a reasonable timeline.
d. Consider tying it to some external event, ie: launch website by industry conference. 
6. BALANCE OF CHALLENGE & REALITY
a. Needs to cause you to stretch, grow and get out of your comfort zone.
b. Must also have some degree of believability.

In Coaching we start at good or even great and sometimes we just want to shake things up and go to the next level! Sometimes we want to re-define excellence or re-define ourselves. Sometimes we’re a bit out of balance, maybe we have been watching too much negative TV, maybe we have had a set back or maybe we simply haven’t been our best. Any number of things can get us off track and recent years presented many....... Isn’t it exciting that we can all be do or have what ever we want. We must remember this and we must focus forward on our vision.

“Setting goals is like delegating to your Universal Manager. And Achieving the vibration of allowing is like standing back and trusting your manager to set things into place, trusting that when another decision is needed from you, you will be aware of it. You are not delegating your life -- you are creating your life. You are becoming the visionary, in the creation mode, but there will still be plenty of things that you will want to do. We in no way want to steer you away form action.” Action is fun.
Abraham-Hicks