The Complete Guide To Setting Goals for the New Year

Welcome to the 4th edition of Create Your Best Life 2019, the ultimate goal setting guide to help you live with intention and become the best version of yourself. 

Are you ready to take on 2019? It’s here! And it’s up to you to make the most of it.

I’m sharing with you the process and tools I have used to accomplish my goals for the past 2 years- from starting a small business, going from primarily offering online to more in-person services, hosting wellness/yoga workshops and retreats and being promoted at work. The process works. As I tracked and reviewed along the way changes were made, but having a guide and a clear vision from the beginning has helped me accomplish more than I ever imagined.

Ask your self what you really want. What are your priorities? What is it that you are looking for? What do you want to achieve?

A daily commitment to your goals and living your best life, keeps your spirit alive, your resolve strong, your mindset focused and your actions inspired.

Let’s begin with why you should set goals.

BENEFITS OF SETTING GOALS

Some of the benefits of goal setting include:

• Goals direct your attention and efforts.
• Goals help you idenitify what is within your control and how you will overcome obstacles.
• Goals are empowering.
• There is a satisfaction in the process and the accomplishments.
• Setting goals can increase self-confidence.
• Setting goals keeps you focused on what is most important.
• Goals increase motivation.

Ask your self what you really want. What are your priorities? What is it that you are looking for? What do you want to achieve?

A daily commitment to your goals and living your best life, keeps your spirit alive, your resolve strong, your mindset focused and your actions inspired.

How to Create a Pattern of Success

Once you experience success you will be able to look back and realize that you achieve all success pretty much the same way. You set a goal, follow through on the tasks needed to be done for achieving results, keep an open mind, learn from others, track your successes and learn from failure. It’s the same thing, over and over again. And it works.

If you want to create a pattern of success in your life, you can start now by learning the secret that successful people know. Successful people aren’t necessarily smarter or luckier. Successful people are successful because they are doers and follow through.

Become a Goal Setting Expert

Start at the top and learn how to craft the best goals for yourself. Know that the goal is something that can be accomplished and know that the goal is measurable before you finish writing it. Most of all, make sure it’s a goal that you really want to achieve.

Schedule Everything

If you want to get something done, schedule it no matter how silly it might seem to you. If you put it in a schedule at a particular time, and not just on a generic to-do list, it will be more likely that you get it done.

For instance, if you have set a goal to write a 80,000 word novel by a certain date, then you should know how many pages you need to get done each week and which days you can work on it, which times, hours, and how long it takes you to write a page. Successful writers write; they don’t wait for inspiration to strike. They schedule it, and do it. The same can be said for anything you want to achieve; run a marathon, start a business, buy a new home, etc.. You don’t wait until you want to do it; you do it on schedule.

Automate the Mundane

There are a lot of things that need to be done, but that can easily escalate into time consuming busy work, which doesn’t get you closer to a goal. Automate some of your daily tasks and free up time to focus on your scheduled activities that must be done to achieve the goal is a more productive use of time.

Get Outside Expert Help

To be a success doesn’t mean you have to do everything on your own. The best scientists, professors, doctors, lawyers, and CEOs have assistants who help them look great. You too can hire outside help and contractors to help you do the tasks needed to reach your goals. There aren’t many tasks that you can’t outsource today.

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Stop Reinventing the Wheel

In most cases, someone has already accomplished the same goal you want to accomplish. Someone has already worked out the kinks and devised a plan of action that will work for you too with hardly any tweaks. Learn from other people’s mistakes and realize that you can gain valuable information from what others are already doing.

Know Your Core Values

As you set goals to create a pattern of success, it’s imperative that you know what your core values are in terms of family, personal, financial and your physical life. Everyone has different areas they need to work on – you need to know what your areas are to set realistic goals that you want to meet. Then, align your goals with your values and your actions with your goals.

Track, Assess, Repeat

Nothing is ever done without the paperwork, as they say. Well, that includes creating a pattern of success. Only by setting goals, then tracking and assessing the results of the goals, and then repeating what works will you create a pattern of success.

Creating a pattern of success requires knowledge of goal setting, and goal achieving, and an in-depth knowledge of yourself. Starting today you can gain that knowledge and create a real pattern of success in your life.

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Let’s get started.

Set aside small amounts of time over the course of a week or 2 to read, absorb and ponder the process and information. Going through the process will help overcome the overwhelm by helping you plan so you’re not trying to accomplish everything all at once. The time spent will be worth it!

If you’re having a hard time coming up with goals or having too many, check out the tips to brainstorm your goals:

• set aside 5-10 minutes to simply brainstorm ideas
• think about the things that are truly important to you
• narrow down to a specific area of life- family, career, health, charity, money, travel, etc.
• write down anything and everything that comes to mind- nothing is too big or too small (you can narrow down the list later)

DON’T JUST GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.

You can achieve personal fulfillment and growth by giving your actions and energy purpose and direction. Setting goals provides focus and helps shape our dreams into reality.  Goals give us the ability to live life with intention and to hone in on the actions we need to perform to achieve what we desire in life.