2010 Goals: Overview
As I sat down to create my goals for 2010, I reviewed my goals for the last few years and I wasn’t so happy with the results. It looks like I’ve been batting about .500 in achieving my goals and that’s not good enough. So this year I’m doing three things differently with my goals to insure that I will achieve a higher percent (like 100%) this year.
- Make them compelling. The more compelling the goal, the more we will invest in achieving it. Randy Hall of 4th Gear Consulting created a blog post about this last week and it really inspired me. So I have rewritten my goals with compelling visions of the outcome.
- Include specific action steps. Each of my goals is accompanied by specific actions that I will take now and throughout the year to make it a reality. I’m not just wishing, I’m planning to make it happen.
- Make them public. I’m going to make my 2010 goals as public as I can (Michael Hyatt wrote about this last week too.), both in the making of them, and with progress reports along the way; believing that public humiliation will help me to keep this year’s goals.
At each progress report (quarterly) I’m plan to update my plans and progress here as well to insure that the goal can be met (or abandon it if I find that I’m not committed to it).
I have goals in three areas, Personal, Business, and Health. I’m planning to share my goals from one area each day this week.
What are you doing to insure that you achieve your 2010 goals?
Update: I posted my personal goals Jan. 14th, and my business goals Jan. 15th, now my health goals are up as well (Jan 18th).
Brad Farris is a small business advisor with Anchor Advisors, Ltd. in Chicago, Il. Since 2001 Anchor Advisors has been helping creative professional firms to grow, by helping them clarify their purpose, get the most from their people, keep their eye on key performance measures, and implement consistent processes.
[...] Earlier I discussed how I am making some changes in how I set goals for 2010. I’m trying to make my goals with very compelling outcomes, I’m creating specific action plans and I am going public with them. In that spirit I am sharing my goals in three categories (Personal, Business and Health) over the next few days. These are my Personal Goals for 2010. [...]
January 14th, 2010 at 8:10 am[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Brad Farris and Randy Hall, julibarcelona. julibarcelona said: Inspiring! RT @4thGear: Brad raises the bar RT @blfarris: This year I’m going to make my resolutions stick .Here’s how http://bit.ly/7tnANZ [...]
January 14th, 2010 at 9:36 amBrad,
These are great goals, thanks for sharing them. It’s funny how much we are aligned on some of these things. I’m stealing the retreat one by the way. I often get so focused on speed that I don’t step back and check direction often enough. I need to remember that in the wrong direction, speed is a bad thing.
Thanks,
Randy
January 15th, 2010 at 6:55 am[...] Earlier I discussed how I am making some changes in how I set goals for 2010. I’m trying to make my goals with very compelling outcomes, I’m creating specific action plans and I am going public with them. In that spirit I am sharing my goals in three categories (Personal, Business and Health) over the next few days. These are my Business Goals for 2010. [...]
January 15th, 2010 at 11:05 am[...] Earlier I discussed how I am making some changes in how I set goals for 2010. I’m trying to make my goals with very compelling outcomes, I’m creating specific action plans and I am going public with them. In that spirit I am sharing my goals in three categories (Personal, Business and Health) over the next few days. These are my Personal Goals for 2010. [...]
January 18th, 2010 at 8:35 am