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Which Area Of Your Life Do You Want To Transform This Year?
(Originally written and published on Jan 4, 2010)
Happy 2010 and welcome to the new decade! 
Today’s article is about choosing the area of your life to transform for this brand new year.
By now, some of you are probably armed with your list of 2010 goals to make it a blast. Some of you may not have thought about your goals yet. If you haven’t done so, it’s not too late to do it now! Take out a pen and paper, and spend the next 15 min (or more if you need to) writing everything it takes to make your 2010 the best year ever yet.
You might want to read Part-3 of Goal Achievement Series on Establish Your Goals, which shares 10 key principles behind powerful goals.
Finish the exercise before continuing on with this article. I’ll wait for you here until you are done.
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Done? How many goals did you come up with? When I did the 2010 goal setting exercise with my clients, most of them came up with 10+ goals. I personally have a list of 14 big goals for the year….
Published Jan 4 2010
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Goals & Success
Tags: 2010, focus, Goal Setting
Keep Your End Objective In Mind
To keep your end objective in mind is crucial for conscious living. It can be divided into two phases: 1) Identify your end objective 2) Evaluate everything against your objective.
1) Identify Your End Objective
Whenever you are starting a new task, activity or goal, always be clear on what your end objective is. Why are you doing this? Is it serving some larger meaning? Where does it fall in the larger context?
This is the same as the second habit in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is Begin With The End In Mind.
There are 3 kinds of end objectives you need to be clear on:
- Life objective: What is your purpose in life?
- Goal objective: What is the objective of your goal?
- Task objective: What is the objective of this task you are doing?
Each objective sets the context for the item below it. For example, your life purpose sets the overall context for your life and your goals. Your goals sets the context for tasks, activities and things you do everyday. Thus, the tasks you do everyday should be a subset of your goals, while your goals should be a subset of your life purpose.
Your purpose is like the grandmother of all end objectives. If you…
Published Feb 20 2009
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Goals & Success, Productivity & GTD, Purpose & Meaning
Tags: clarity, Goal Setting, objective, priority
Goal Achievement: Establish
This is part 3 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
(If you do not have the habit of setting goals, please read this article first: 6 Important Reasons Why You Should Set Goals.)
Establish is the 1st step of ESPER.
In Establish, you establish the goal that you are going to be pursuing. Since you are reading this goal achievement series, you probably already have a goal in mind which you want to achieve.
Yet, establishing your goal is more than just identifying a goal target you want to achieve. There are numerous list of factors of consideration to ensure that your vision is robust, accurate, and most importantly, what you really want.
Unfortunately, instead of investing quality time on this step, many people run into the mistake of being hasty. They skip past proper goal setting and jump straight into the planning and execution. At the end of the day, they end up causing a lot of backtracking and rework because they did not set the goal properly in the first place. Some of them actually achieve their goal, then find…
Published Jan 20 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: achieving goals, esper, Goal Setting
6 Important Reasons Why You Should Set Goals
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar (More quotes on goal setting)
Do you set goals for yourself? What are your goals for the next 12 months? How about 3 years from now? 5 years? 10 years? What are your aspirations that you look towards coming true?
Goal setting is the first step towards successful goal achievement. It marks your first point towards success. It is what put your life into real action mode. Without this step, the other steps of goal achievement cannot take place.
Have you ever encountered people who have a passive approach towards life? They don’t set any goals and they just live life on a meandering, day-to-day basis. You see them 1 year, 3 years, 5 years from now, and their lives are largely the same, save for a few changes that are really more the result of others’ actions and desires rather than their own.
Below are 6 key reasons why setting goals is so important: (more…)
Published Jan 19 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: Goal Setting
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