How You Can Achieve More Goals Greater Success Balance and Less Stress in 2006

How You Can Achieve More Goals, Greater Success, Balance, and Less Stress in 2006
By Leanne Hoagland-Smith

Do you know what most young people and adults share in common? From my experience as an educational consultant and executive coach, the answer is the inability to plan and achieve their goals.

Please take a few moments to think back to your middle school, high school or college years. Can you remember how much time you spent in learning how to plan, write and implement your goals? Goal planning and goal writing are skills that in many cases are learned through what I call the Osmosis Factor. Within this strategy, a presumption exists that if I hear or read the words, in this case goal planning or goal setting, I will immediately be able to set and achieve my goals. Unfortunately, consistent goal achievement is comprised of five factors and these factors by and large are not taught within the K-12 experience or even corporate training.

Factor #1 Whole Life Approach

Take the See Level approach and not the Sea Level approach where you cant see the forest for the trees. Look at your whole life and not just one area. Think of your life as a wheel divided into important areas including: mental, physical, family, career, financial and ethics and beliefs. Assess yourself in each area and then set goals to smooth out your wheel. Both my personal and professional wheels have 6 key areas.

Factor #2 - Criteria

Write goals using specific criteria. I use an adaptation of the traditional S.M.A.R.T. criteria - W.H.Y. S.M.A.R.T. (Written, Habit Forming, Yours, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistically Set High, Time Driven)

Factor #3 - Tools

Utilize a proven goal setting tool that helps you work through the goal planning process. The tool that I use has 10 steps and recognizes the importance of reward, consequences, possible obstacles, possible solutions and affirmations.

Factor #4 Affirmations

Construct positive affirmations or belief statements that will help you visualize the success that you desire for yourself. With all the negative energy and self-talk in the world, it is essential that you consistently reprogram your mental thoughts to overcome all the negative conditioning.

Factor #5 Action PlanImplement a written or electronic (software) Action Plan where you can keep all your goals and review them on a regular basis.

The coming New Year can be one of great incredible accomplishments and with less stress provided that you believe that YOUR life is what YOU make of it.

Leanne helps individuals, small businesses and large organizations to double performance in real time. Click here to learn how to double or even triple your results for tne New Year. Please feel free to contact Leanne at 219.759.5601. If you truly don't believe doubling your results is possible, read some case studies where individuals and businesses took the risk and experienced unheard of results.

One quick question, if you could double your results from 2005 in 2006 or possibly breakthrough that one roadbloack preventing YOUR success, what would that mean to you? Then, take a risk and give a call at 219.759.5601 to experience incredible results.

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