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A Process for Achieving Goals 3 (Success Series)
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This is the easy section to write. Much has been written about goal setting and goal review.
Vision relates to our right brain, goal setting to our left, and so, we need to set SMARTER goals:
- S: specific e.g. I’ll abstain from sugar and go to the gym three times per week to lose 10 lbs in Mar 2016
- M: measurable e.g. Losing 3 lbs per week will mean I am on target
- A: attainable e.g. you need to change mindsets, acquire habits and skills that will lead you to your goals.
- R: realistic e.g. goals that are slightly out of reach so you need to stretch but not so far out of reach that we feel we’ll never attain the goal.
- T: time-bound e.g. a calendar end point for assessment.
- E: evaluate e.g. adjust in for changing circumstances and determine what is or is not working.
- R: redo e.g. after evaluation come up with new actions to replace those that are not working.
Goal setting is necessary but not sufficient. To succeed, we need to plan what action to take and then take action – action that leads towards our goals. Without action, all we have are pipe dreams. And it’s not any action, it’s action that we change with deliberative practice.
Any worthwhile activity needs deliberative practice; and yet, through the years, the advice I have given that is most honoured by its breach is my exhortation to practice deliberatively trading two or three hours a week. Done well, this practice hones our intention and integrates appropriate market responses so they become second nature.
So how about you? Did you say you want to become successful? Perhaps very successful? How time do you spend in deliberative practice?
This post wraps up the ACT Hexaflex. The next blog, we’ll look at METHOD.
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