January is the time each year to roll out new goals for your life. Setting goals is usually easier than achieving them. January can seem like a win, but by the end of the first quarter, do you even remember what your goals were? Is there a way to better align your goal setting with your goal achieving?
Leadership guru Michael Hyatt suggests four essentials for setting and accomplishing your goals for the new year.
- Goal setting looks different for everyone. There’s no one-size-fits-all for goal-setting. You don’t have to compete with anyone. And you shouldn’t feel like you have to keep up. In fact, if your goals aren’t truly your own, there’s a chance you won’t follow through. Having a trusted partner or friend go through this process with you can help identify your blind spots and ensure your goals are authentic to you.
- Goal setting helps excavate you. There comes a time when we each need to do some soul-searching. Because what if you actually don’t know yourself very well? Setting goals gives you clarity about what you want your life to look like and opens possibilities for your hopes, dreams, desires, and gifts.
- Goal setting cultivates confidence. As you make progress on your goals and build momentum, you discover a new sense of confidence. By leaning into the process and pushing fear aside, you begin to accomplish things you never thought possible. This positions you to want to pursue even more.
- Goal setting offers a destination. You no longer have to go through life simply drifting toward a destination you never intended or wanted. You don’t have to feel like you’re living someone else’s life. Goal setting offers you a map. It helps you plot a course for where you want to go.
(Read Hyatt’s full article here.)
If you haven’t set any goals for 2022 yet, you should start, even if it’s just one or two. Something for yourself. A goal for your family. And certainly a goal for your career or business. We all would like to look back in December and see that our planning, hard work, sacrifice, and blessings all accomplished a bit more success than in the year before.
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