Archive for Goal Setting
Goal Setting: The Missing Step
Posted by: | CommentsWhere do most goal setting and life planning systems go wrong?
In the last few weeks I’ve shared with you some key life planning questions, the strategic 3/3/50% question, and challenged you to carve out some unrushed time for thinking about the direction of your life.
Now let me encourage you to do something that will help your planning process immensely, but something which is rarely done by people who want to move ahead: Look Back. That’s right, look back.
Since you are a person interested in life planning, I know that you are forward looking, passionate about accomplishing something significant, desiring to reach your full potential. I’m with you! But before you can plan the forward course you need to gain a sense of where you’ve come from.
In the book Release, I describe this step as Harnessing Your History. Everything in your past has shaped who you are today. And if your past is like mine, there are good things and bad things, great pain, great joy, success and failure. Read More→
Short Term Goals
Posted by: | CommentsDid you find my life planning/dream questions helpful?
Here’s another good one that I heard from one of my mentors, Bobb Biehl:
What 3 things can you do in the next 3 months that will make a 50% difference in the key areas of your life?
This is one of the highest leverage questions I’ve found. Three months is long enough to do something significant but short enough to keep it in my face! I always have three 3-month goals on the go, and whenever one is completed, I add another.
If this kind of thinking gets your wheels turning, I know you will benefit from the personal development process I call Release. I teach it through my book Release: A Wilderness Adventure of the Soul, which uses the fictional story of a person sent out on a 3-week solo wilderness trek to communicate the different phases of the process. Read More→
