Write the vision and make it plain! Today we’re digging into your goals! It’s time to break down your long and short term vision so that you can put them into systems that will help you to start seeing results! If you haven’t already, you want to read Are Your Goals Aligned With Your Purpose (or listen to it) as well as Become Your Own Hero. These will walk you through the entire process for creating goals that resonate with who you are and what you were created to do. This episode is all about structuring them! If you’re ready, let’s go!
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Prioritize Your Goals
Grab the list you made while reading or listening to Become Your Own Hero (you know the list with all of your goals on it?) and prioritize them. In each section, you want to highlight, circle, or put a star beside your most important goal within each category (health and fitness, finances, family, business, etc).
Key Performance Indicators
After that create a plan for your most important goal. Break it down into a clear result you can see in 90-days. How much will you weigh? How much will you increase your income by? What kind of character will you have? What result do you need to see to know whether or not your process is working? Write it down.
Keep In Mind
The primary focus of the 90-days is to give you a very specific way to measure your progress so that you can keep doing what works and tweak the things that need improvement so before you start overthinking and feeling stressed or overwhelmed about whether or not you will actually hit your goal I want you to take a deep breath and RELAX!
We are simply measuring your results, hitting your goal is not the focus (although it is possible)! If you hit it GREAT! If you don’t GREAT! This doesn’t change your ability to get it done or who you’re becoming in the process. Does that make sense? Achieving the goal is great, but who you are becoming is even better!
The Focus Is Life Mastery
If you could measure the value you receive from pursuing your goals you would be more enthusiastic about the journey than about getting the end result you want. Every goal you want has a set of lessons attached to it and until you evolve and learn the lessons you will not achieve it. These lessons teach you wisdom, develop your character, and stretch your mindset! It’s a triple whammy (in a good way)!
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Over the course of your 90-days, I also want you to pay attention to how many times you say “yes” to your dreams and “no” to distractions. Keep an eye on who supports and encourages you throughout the 90 days and who resists your growth. Understanding these things will put you in a better position the next time you set out to crush a goal. You will understand yourself and your environment better so that you can create lasting results in your life. These 90-days are not about whether you succeed or fail. It’s about your personal development!
Start Small
I know you’ve heard this before, achieving any goal is all about (say it with me…) TAKING BABY STEPS! Break your goal down into practical steps you can start taking today. Nick Saban said, “a good process produces good results.” Make sure that when you break down your goal it is realistic to your lifestyle and skillset.
What does this mean? Well, if your goal is to write a book and you have a full-time job most of your “free time” (time when you’re not working for someone else) will either be before work or after work. Now, before you get lost wondering which time is prime time for you consider when you have the most energy, feel the most creative, and are able to commit to the writing process. Then create a schedule and get to work!
Use your free time to invest in your goal. Set aside 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 to write, brainstorm ideas, and prepare your book for release. Don’t schedule 3 hours of writing if you know you have other things you need to get done before or after work. Be realistic.
“When you don’t create realistic goals you will always fail to achieve them.” – Tee Forever
Start where you are, as you are, with what you have and grow into the person you see yourself being. Think like a best selling author and you will become a best selling author. Think like a nutritionist and you will enjoy eating healthy. Think like a high achiever and you will get high-level results! Sounds practical enough right? Well, let the work begin!
Let’s Automate This
After you’ve broken down your goals into small actionable steps you can start taking today we are going to put them into a system. Here’s an example of what I mean. Right now I have a goal to eat healthier so I incorporate more vegetables into my diet. How do I do this? By meal prepping every week. When do I create the time to meal prep? Well, Sunday’s are usually my slower days where I intentionally spend time with people and rest so I include meal prepping on Sunday.
Now, this action is a little more difficult to automate because it requires more of your attention however, you can use automation for things like your grocery shopping. By working with companies like Walmart you can do your grocery shopping online and pick it up in-store. If you’d like to save even more time, you can work with a company like Fresh City Farms. They will actually deliver your groceries to your house will no extra charge! Now, of course, the perks and offers you get with each company are different so you want to do your research. These are just a few options you can consider if you are in North America.
When it comes to money I automate my goals by setting up automatic withdrawals from my account. You can set this up with any bank and now with online banking you can pretty much set this up yourself. Decide on the amount of money that you want to save or invest every week or every month and have the bank automatically withdraw it from your account. This is the pay yourself first principle in action and hunny, let me tell you, it works!
You can automate almost all of your goals and if it can’t be automated by an external system you can create a routine that leads to automatic results. Whew! That was A LOT, but there we go! Now you have a solid, realistic, practical goal planning strategy that you can literally apply to your goals to get uncommon results with your goals! we want.
Anyone Can Do This
Hey! I can hear your thoughts going 1,000 mph asking “can I really do this? This sounds like a lot of work, I don’t have time for this.” Listen to me. You are worth it. The future version of yourself is waiting to be released but you have them caged up, stuck in who you are right now. Stop holding yourself back!
If I can do this with 3 kids under 3 running around trying to get my attention then what is your excuse? This is simple and realistic enough for you to get started right now. Just apply this process to your goals and I have no doubt that you will get results in the next 90 days!
My friend, if I can run a business, have a social life, and take care of myself with 3 kids under 3 years old – my youngest being 1 month, you have no excuse! *Wink* Scroll up and hit play to hear more examples of how you can systemize your goals and automate the process to crush your goal using the 90-day cycle.
“This is not about how fast you can hit your goal, it’s about who you’re becoming in your journey to personal achievement.” – Tee Forever
You Got This!
I promise I wouldn’t be sharing this with you if it didn’t work! The results you get with this are 100% dependent on you. Like I mentioned earlier it all boils down to how many times over the next 90 days you say “yes” to your goals and “no” to distractions. This is not about if you’re willing to crush your goals, I know are that’s why you’re here. This is not about being capable, because trust me, you are more than capable. This is about turning your goals into reality. It’s time to take action to stop dreaming and start doing.
