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Goal Setting

There is always a lot of talk at the beginning of the year about setting new year\’s resolutions.  The most popular ones seem to resolve around personal improvement;  go to the gym, lose weight, eat healthy and stop smoking. I believe New Year\’s resolutions indicate that we still believe there is hope for improvement, that we can make a change.  However, there is the camp of people who believe that no one ever keeps their resolutions and therefore, why should you make them.  Well, they do have a point.  According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Aasociate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, research shows that “six weeks after people make their New Year\’s resolutions, 80 percent have either broken them or couldn\’t remember what they were.”. So why are we so bad at keeping our New Year\’s resolutions?  Several reasons actually; we don\’t write them down, they\’re not realistic, and we don\’t make a plan.

I love the beginning of the year and dreaming of all the wonderful things I want to achieve for the year, but I can\’t just daydream, I have to put it in writing.  Setting goals for your business life is a crucial part of growing.  My motto is “if you\’re not growing, you\’re dying”. Status Quo will not maintain your business, but kill it.  So now is the time to start putting your New Year\’s resolutions into action.   Schedule time on your calendar this week to plan.  Make sure you find a place and a time where you are totally uninterrupted.  Then dream of the things you want to accomplish.   Go ahead, dream!  Write them down even if they seem to be far out of reach.  If we don\’t begin with a dream, we can never accomplish the “impossible”.  So how are we going to accomplish our dreams? One step at a time.  Begin with the end in mind, then walk your self backwards making sure every step is realistic.  What do you need to accomplish quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily in order to achieve your goal? Once your goals are broken into smaller steps you will begin to see how achievable they really are.  You can do this!  You can choose today to accomplish what is on your task list without becoming overwhelmed about what you have to do this month or this year.  Take it one day at a time and you will be amazed at what you have achieved when you review your year at the end of 2012.

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Goal Setting 1

This year I received the movie Julie and Julia in my Christmas stocking. I was absolutely mesmerized as I watched it, maybe because I thoroughly enjoy cooking or, maybe it was seeing an average young women set out on a monumental task and achieve it. It reminded me of what we really can accomplish when we set goals and then work hard to accomplish them. I know so often in my own life I often find myself saying, “wouldn’t it be nice if…”
My oldest son and his wife gave me a wonderful French cookbook for Christmas. On our 6-hour ride home from their house, I read every recipe. Often I would read the recipe out loud to my husband and we would both comment on how good it sounded. I do this with every cookbook I get. I love to read them like novels. More often than not, many of those delicious recipes go unmade. So what happened to my good intentions?
According to a Dorthy.com survey, 66% of adults start the year off making New Years resolutions but only 17% will keep them. So why aren’t we keeping them. There are several reasons:
1)    Many of us make unrealistic goals. Setting goals that are unrealistic only ensures that we will become depressed and feel defeated. I love the idea of saying that I will cook my way through Julia Child’s cookbook in one year, but for me with my schedule and family, this is an impossible task so why would I torture myself. In the end, I will only feel defeated and be left with a sentiment that I can’t accomplish anything.
2)    We don’t set timelines for our goals. Our goals should state what we want to accomplish by a certain date. In the movie, Julie set her goal to cook her way through the entire Julia Child’s cookbook in one year, 524 recipes in 365 days.
3)    Break your goals down into small weekly or monthly goals. Once you begin with the end in mind, you can break your goal down into smaller more manageable bites. Julie’s goal was to cook her way through the entire cookbook in one year. There are 524 recipes in the cookbook and only 365 days in the year. This means Julie would have to cook 2 recipes a day nearly every day. It is important that Julie take into consideration that there might be some days she wouldn’t be able to cook at all. For Julie, it might be more feasible to say that she would cook 43 recipes a month. This way if she falls behind one or two days due to illness, etc., she knows what she must do to reach her monthly goal.
4)    Write them down and keep them in a place where you can see them. For Julie, there was a count down clock on her blog. She knew how many recipes she had to go and how many days left to finish. It is important for you to write your goals down with your timeline and keep them in a place where you can see them every day.
Without a clear plan it is hard for us to stay on track and accomplish our New Years resolutions or any goals for that matter. It’s like that GPS you received for Christmas. You have to put in your final destination and it will guide you there step by step. Turn left here, go 3 miles, turn right, continue on 14 miles, until you finally reach your destination. So go ahead and make those resolutions, but just make sure you develop a step by step plan to help you get there.
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Goal Setting

A few years ago, I received the movie Julie and Julia in my Christmas stocking. I was absolutely mesmerized as I watched it, maybe because I thoroughly enjoy cooking or, maybe it was seeing an average young women set out on a monumental task and achieve it. It reminded me of what we really can accomplish when we set goals and then work hard to accomplish them. I know so often in my own life I often find myself saying, “wouldn’t it be nice if…”
My oldest son and his wife gave me a wonderful French cookbook for Christmas. On our 6-hour ride home from their house, I read every recipe. Often I would read the recipe out loud to my husband and we would both comment on how good it sounded. I do this with every cookbook I get. I love to read them like novels. More often than not, many of those delicious recipes go unmade. So what happened to my good intentions?
According to a Dorthy.com survey, 66% of adults start the year off making New Years resolutions but only 17% will keep them. So why aren’t we keeping them. There are several reasons:
1)    Many of us make unrealistic goals. Setting goals that are unrealistic only ensures that we will become depressed and feel defeated. I love the idea of saying that I will cook my way through Julia Child’s cookbook in one year, but for me with my schedule and family, this is an impossible task so why would I torture myself. In the end, I will only feel defeated and be left with a sentiment that I can’t accomplish anything.
2)    We don’t set timelines for our goals. Our goals should state what we want to accomplish by a certain date. In the movie, Julie set her goal to cook her way through the entire Julia Child’s cookbook in one year, 524 recipes in 365 days.
3)    Break your goals down into small weekly or monthly goals. Once you begin with the end in mind, you can break your goal down into smaller more manageable bites. Julie’s goal was to cook her way through the entire cookbook in one year. There are 524 recipes in the cookbook and only 365 days in the year. This means Julie would have to cook 2 recipes a day nearly every day. It is important that Julie take into consideration that there might be some days she wouldn’t be able to cook at all. For Julie, it might be more feasible to say that she would cook 43 recipes a month. This way if she falls behind one or two days due to illness, etc., she knows what she must do to reach her monthly goal.
4)    Write them down and keep them in a place where you can see them. For Julie, there was a count down clock on her blog. She knew how many recipes she had to go and how many days left to finish. It is important for you to write your goals down with your timeline and keep them in a place where you can see them every day.
Without a clear plan it is hard for us to stay on track and accomplish our New Years resolutions or any goals for that matter. It’s like that GPS you received for Christmas. You have to put in your final destination and it will guide you there step by step. Turn left here, go 3 miles, turn right, continue on 14 miles, until you finally reach your destination. So go ahead and make those resolutions, but just make sure you develop a step by step plan to help you get there.
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