I've never been good
at Goal setting I always ended up forgetting about the goal or just giving up
because it got overwhelming. So recently I decided to try it differently this
year. I sat down the other day and told myself this is it you want to do these
things you need to figure out a way to do it. These are the tricks I'm using to
get my goals in order and achieve them.
My first step was to
grab a pen and some paper and write down the areas I wanted to work on. For
myself I chose;
-School
-Book
-Etsy
-Blog
I then started with
one, in this case School and started to write what I wanted out of this
semester. I decided that is how I wanted to organize all four sections, So each
section was separated, spring 2016 which is January to May then Summer 2016
(June and July), then Fall 2016 August to December. For right now I just
focused on what I wanted out of spring.
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| The Four notebooks and the Colors. |
Now I have a list of
goals for each section of my life with a reasonable "due date." I
didn't stop there however. I then took to One Note this could be done with just
a plain note book but this way I can print off the pages I want. If you haven't
used One Note before it is a Microsoft office product that helps you organize
your notes and documents all in one place. Now I have never really used One Note
before but I love the ease of use it has and thought it would be perfect to use
for my goal planning. In one note I made a notebook for each thing on my list,
color-coded them with my planner, then moved on to pages. Each notebook, except
school, has two pages: one is goals and the second is a timeline.
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| My Goals page for two of my sections |
In the Goals page
I've typed up the goals I wrote on my piece of paper earlier. Then it gets fun,
The timeline page is where I've made my goals reasonable and easily achievable.
I split up my goals put the date I wanted it accomplished then split the main
goals into tasks with due dates. This way I know I need to work on a task for
my main goal on a specific day and I know I will be able to do the task.
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| My Book timeline for one goal |
Then I moved to my
Planner and put the task in there with a sticky tab on the day I want to do it.
This way when I plan for the next week I know I have something to do for my
goal and I can make the time to do the task.
There you have it my
new trick to get Goals done, splitting your large goal into small quick tasks
that you can work on once a week. I hope this will help you with any of your
goals you may have I know I feel so much better about getting everything done this
year!
