Goal Setting
Goal Setting
Jimmy Petruzzi
1) State the goal in positive terms.
What do you want to achieve, what would you like to happen, what outcome do you want?
Remember the mind can not process a negative instruction, for example if I say doesn’t think of the colour red, what comes to mind?
So be specific if a 5 year old can’t understand it, it’s to complex, (for example in the context of health and fitness, stating you want to lose weight, is vague and not specific. Write your ideal weight you want to be i.e. 12 stone or dress size ten) (or the exact car you want, type of partner, business) be as specific as possible
State it in the positive (what you want to achieve).
· Where are you now?
(This is your road map) in the context of your goal (i.e. just starting up in business, 15 stone, never completed a fun run)
· Where do you want to be?
(Were do you want to be in the case of your goal as in outcome you want)
(A successful business seeing 20 clients per week charging the market rate per session, 12 stone, complete 5 mile fun runs)
2) specify the goal in Sensory Based Terms
Remember we learn through our senses, and build an association through our senses which makes it real
Engage all of your senses in this description process to employ more of your brain and nervous system
And build pathways in your mind making it real.
What will you see, hear, feel, etc., when you have achieved your goal?
Close your eyes and imagine what it would be like having achieved your goal, what will you see? Hear? And feel?
What steps or stages are involved in reaching this goal?
Formulate a plan what steps are necessary in achieving the goal
Step 1: 2: 3: and so forth
(I.e. step one might be to email or phone someone step two set up a business meeting, step three identify your strengths and weaknesses)
3) Specify the goal in a way that you find compelling
(Make the goal have meaning, specify your goal in a meaningful way)
Now Imagine in your minds eye the steps you have mapped taking you to the point of having achieved your goal. See yourself having achieved your goal like watching yourself on TV. Notice the screen the clarity of the image, what you are wearing, what people around you are wearing, the surroundings, what you are saying, people around you are saying and what it feels like to see yourself achieve the goal.
What would achieving the goal mean to you?
To your family?
The impact it will have on the greater community?
Is the goal compelling?
Does it make you excited?
4) Run an ecology check on your Goal (the consequences of working towards your goal or achieving it) to make sure it is for you in all areas of your life. Making sure it whets you want for you.
· Is the desired goal right for you in all circumstances of your life?
· Is your goal appropriate in all your personal relationships?
· What will having your goal give you that you do not now have?
What implications does it have on other parts of your life? I.e. spending time with your children, your partner, family
· Is your goal achievable?
5) The plan
· Where, when, how, with whom, etc. will you get this goal?
Where? (I.e. office in city centre celebrating grand opening, running New York Marathon,)
when?: set a time limit, i.e. set a an exact date, by 12/10 /2012 ( successful business seeing 20 clients per week at top market rate, set are date and even time for when you will achieve your goal)
how?: ( how you intend to achieve your goal step by step) ( generate a plan) ( set up web site, business cards, meeting with key people, join gym, hire personal trainer)
Whom? (list of the resources as in people that can help you achieve your goal) (family, friends, business manager)
6) State the Resources needed to achieve the goal
· What resources will you need in order to get this goal?
· Who will you have to become?
· Who else has achieved this goal?
· Have you ever had or done this before?
· Do you know anyone who has?
· What prevents you from moving toward it and attaining it now?
7) Evidence Procedure.
· How will you know that your goal has been realized?
(How many times to we achieve a goal without even realising it, its important to know when you have realised your goal, you wouldn’t climb the highest mountain and not sit and admire the view)
What will let you know that you have attained that desired state?
( how will it feel when you have achieved your goal, how many people achieve a goal and think is that it, or not sure if their getting closer, identify the feelings the will come with achieving your goal, close your eyes and think about it what feeling you will have, having achieved your goal)
Placing goals on a timeline
Placing your goal in a timeline gives you the opportunity to note the progress you are making step by step
Starting with the end in mind .At the very top write specifically what you goal is and the exact date you will achieve it.
I.e. July 2012 dress size 10, weight ten stone, or give up job go full time business seeing 20 clients per week, making top market rate each client.
March 2012 dress size 12, see ten clients per week part time
Jan 2012 dress size 14, see 5 clients per week part time
December 2011 complete 5 mile fun run, or go part time at work,
August 2011, enter 5 mile fun run, or start building web site, marketing plan
June 2011,hire personal trainer do 1 session per week and two on my own, or set up meeting with business manager with an eye to accumulate enough funds to go full time in business