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Goal Achievement: Introduction
This is part 1 of a 7-part series on what it takes to successfully achieve goals.
- Part 1: Goal Achievement: Introduction
- Part 2: ESPER
- Part 3: Establish
- Part 4: Strategy
- Part 5: Planning
- Part 6: Execution
- Part 7: Review
Goal Achievement: Introduction
What are some of your biggest goals in life? To lose weight? To earn more money? To be in your dream career? To set up your own business? To live in abundance? To be in the peak of your health? To meet your life partner? To have a loving family?
For any of these goals, have you ever felt the resolve to achieve it, devote resources towards it, work on it for an extended period of time, only to have it fall flat on your face eventually?
Say you have a goal to lose weight and you resolve to shed off 30lbs. You start off strong, cutting off the amount of food you eat. You also start an exercise regime. Every day, you measure your weight to closely track your progress. Within the first few days, you start seeing a reduction in your weight. Rejoicing, you continue what you have been doing, but it seems that your actions have lost their effectiveness because your weight loss…
Published May 5 2009
Filed: Goals & Success, Series
Tags: esper
Goal Achievement: Review
This is the last part of a 7-part series on what it takes to successfully achieve goals.
- Part 1: Goal Achievement: Introduction
- Part 2: ESPER
- Part 3: Establish
- Part 4: Strategy
- Part 5: Planning
- Part 6: Execution
- Part 7: Review
Review is the final step of ESPER.
Importance of Review
Review serves two important objectives: (1) Accountability (2) Feedback.
Firstly, Review strengthens accountability to yourself. When you review, you make yourself answerable to your goals. You take ownership of and responsibility for your actions. If you don’t review, how will you know how you are reaching your goal? This is especially important if your goal is not immediately perceptible, such as how much weight you are losing or savings generated in a month. You can always operate under the assumption that you are at your goal, but you will never know for sure until you review.
Secondly, Review is where you get feedback on everything you have strategized, planned and executed. Reviewing lets you understand what’s working, what’s not working and how you can improve. Without Review, you will have no clue on whether your actions are leading you towards or away from your goals. You will be stabbing in the dark, blindly repeating the same steps, wondering why…
Published Jan 25 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: achieving goals, esper, evaluation, Reviews, tracking
Goal Achievement: Execution
This is part 6 of a 7-part series on what it takes to successfully achieve goals.
- Part 1: Goal Achievement: Introduction
- Part 2: ESPER
- Part 3: Establish
- Part 4: Strategy
- Part 5: Planning
- Part 6: Execution
- Part 7: Review
“Execution is all that the world sees.”
Execution is the 4th step of ESPER framework. This is the step where your goal really gets brought to life in physical reality. When you were establishing your goal, you created the virtual image it in your mind. In Strategy, you developed the key pillars and principles you need to build your plan on. In Planning, you develop the specifics of your plan, right up to activities you need to do and integrated it into your schedule.
Execution is an extremely critical step because execution is all that anybody ever sees. You can spend all your life establishing goals, strategizing and planning, but if you never get down to the execution, nothing is going to happen.
It is the step when things manifest, get brought to life, takes physical shape. It is when your goal becomes reality.
Assuming you have done a thorough and rigorous job in the previous three steps and you have prioritized the right tasks in your plan, how…
Published Jan 24 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: achieving goals, Effectiveness, esper, Procrastination, Self Discipline
Goal Achievement: Planning
This is part 5 of a 7-part series on what it takes to successfully achieve goals.
- Part 1: Goal Achievement: Introduction
- Part 2: ESPER
- Part 3: Establish
- Part 4: Strategy
- Part 5: Planning
- Part 6: Execution
- Part 7: Review
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne
Planning is the 3rd step of ESPER framework. Where in Strategy you identify the overall principles to nail your goal, in Planning you use those principles to develop a fully structured plan, complete with all the specific details. In this step and the next (Execution), you will find that your left brain and organization skills play a very important role.
The objective of developing a plan is to (1) organize your tasks and (2) allocate your resources accordingly so that you can achieve your specified goals within your desired time frame. It is a reflection of where your time and energy will be channeled into. If it is well developed, it will keep you organized in your goal pursuit. If it is messy and haphazard, you will find your tasks get thrown into disarray when you are pursuing your goal. (more…)
Published Jan 22 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: achieving goals, esper, organize, organizing, planning
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