3 simple steps to achieve the goals
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
In his previous article I touched on issues related to the basic principles of self-management and the changes that may occur in your life, if you will follow them.
Lewis Carroll- Tell me, please, which way I go from here?
- It depends on where you want to come, - said the Cat.
- Yes, I almost do not care - the beginning of Alice.
- Then do not care where to go, - said the Cat.
Planning is the first step to any change in the full life: whether it is fighting a bad habit, or work on a relationship. Many people, unfortunately, do not attach due importance to this stage and eventually abandon their ambitious goals. To walk this path successfully, you must first understand what the plan and how to use it.
What is planning?
Alan LakeynPlanning brings future into the present and allows you to do something with it now.
In the practice of self-management planning - is setting goals and formation ways to achieve them. This step is key. If you could ask yourself what to do next, then you have begun to change.
Planning helps not only to develop a course of action to change themselves, but also a deeper understanding of what we want to achieve in reality. Too often, so that for the simple desire to overcome the habit lies latent need for recognition or understanding. If it is identified, it can be easier to work on yourself.
The self-management plan includes four stages:
- Mission.
- Purpose.
- Tasks.
- Plan.
Acquainted with this simple scheme, you are today start towards their goals.
Mission. For what is all this?
With the expanse of the Internet- You do not go there you go! The lights on the other side!
- I do not care, I will light your own.
Very often the first step in planning is called goal-setting that is not always true. The goal implies a concrete expression of inner desires, which even at its achievement can not be satisfied. The first step in planning the changes to be Mission.
The mission is our inner purpose, thereby lurking appeal, which we are not used to sound when we start to strive for something.
- Why do you want to quit?
- I want to stop harming himself.
- Why do you need this?
- I want to strengthen your health and live a long time.
- Why?
- I want to see my children grow up.
Per simple habits can stand high internal desires that you should uncover. Thus, an end in itself should be the desire is to them. The beauty of the mission, as opposed to the objective, is unattainable and that it is always an incentive at work on the other. So even after a person quits smoking, he will support the health, can begin to actively engage in sports or go on a healthy diet.
Step 1. Whatever your purpose at the moment, spend five minutes trying to dig deeper. Find your true mission. Write it as easy as possible and understandable to themselves. Let it will always be in front of your eyes: put it as a screensaver on your phone, make a note on the sticker and affix in a conspicuous place or fix on the title page of his diary.
Do not forget to constantly remind ourselves, for what all of this.
Purpose. Where does the mission?
Mahatma GandhiPut your goal, the resources exist.
Personal goal-setting is written so many books and said many words of wisdom that I will try to summarize only the knowledge that are available to me, and share operating procedure.
After determining the mission, which will be your main motivator in the way of changes, you can revert to its original purpose.
The most effective tool in the formulation of goals for me are SMART-criteria, according to which the goal should be:
- S - accurate. Unlike the mission, your goal should be expressed in concrete results that you want to achieve.
- M - measurable. Express your goal in numbers. For example, I have decided in the past year read more. My desired outcome has been read 30,000 pages per year.
- A - achievable. How do you know if your goal is achievable? Unfortunately, this is the item most often frightens people, because they are afraid not justify their high expectations. You should remember that your job will consist of constant and consistent small steps, so already the result of the first day will not let you lose heart. Do not worry if your goal is to be implemented is not 100%. In any case you'll be happy with the efforts that are put to work on a (so I read to the end of the year only 22 074 pages, but this year is ahead of schedule for a month).
- R - meaningful. If your goal is really consistent with the mission, do not doubt that it is of absolute importance for you.
- T - limited in time. The big question for people is on what terms the objective is. I plan for a maximum of one to two years. I decided, because at the moment the realization of my plans do not require large periods and limited time only stimulate me.
Step 2. Now under your mission to give yourself a few goals for the coming period, which will not exceed one year. It is better that the objectives were not more than three, otherwise your account may begin to dissipate. Periodically review them and do not be afraid to make adjustments. Your goal should not become dogma. They are reference points that need to be supported and which can always be revised.
Objectives and plans. When starting to work?
Vladimir Serkin- If you have done the action, make sure you get the results you want it or not.
- Mystic some.
- Mystery - to make action and think that nothing will happen.
Tasks are a direct extension of your goals, but they are limited to the execution period. It should be one or two months. This fragmentation is necessary to ensure that you can always see the intermediate result of work on oneself.
For example, if your goal was to quit smoking for a year, then the task of the current month will reduce cigarette consumption by four pieces per day. That does not sound so bad, right?
Then you can take up the preparation of the plan, which is a key factor for success. That plan helps define the first step that will bring you closer to the goal right now. It will be a check-list that you make today.
Most of us set ambitious goals, but, afraid of their scale and not knowing how to approach them, throw the case, do not even start. The only way to achieve the desired - now write a plan for what you will do today to get closer to your mission.
The plan may include only one action. For example, today you find, number of cigarettes smoked per day, And smoke one less. This is the same plan and will be tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, until the first task for the week is done. Agree that a person who smokes a pack a day, it is easier to give up a cigarette today than shout, throwing the whole pack in the trash, "Never again!". And the next day to buy a new one and go back to addiction.
Your first action - not just the victory of one day. This is the realization of your mission. This is the whole secret. So live, those who seem to us successful and happy people. They do not take their prey today as part of a larger goal. Their daily work on yourself and have that same goal.
Step 3. Now take a piece of paper and write yourself a plan for today, what you should do, to get closer to the solution of the first short-term objectives (do not forget about its ambitious mission).
Summary
- Always look for the source of his inner desire to change, ask yourself the question: "For what I want to change?".
- place long-term goalsBut do not make them dogmas, work with them and celebrate their victories.
- Now make a plan of what to do today to start enjoying the realization of your mission.
Are you still sitting there reading this article? Immediately get up and go to realize their full potential! I wish you success!