Are Your Goals Clear For 2020 Or Are You Still Procrastinating?
Caryn Walsh is a Leadership and Team Development Specialist, Business and Executive Coach, Psychologist Pure Magic International Business Solutions.
As we head into yet another year, we stand at the beginning of a new decade, thinking about what we can do within our careers and our personal lives and how we can improve, or make things better, or achieve dreams we have.
Problem is, if we don’t work out what we want to do and how we will do it, then how will we start the journey towards achieving goals this year?
Nothing will help you achieve your goals unless you DO something
To achieve things in life (weight loss, giving up cigarettes, making a career move or buying a new car) we have to put EFFORT into it.
Nothing falls from the skies and into our laps in this world. We have to work for it.
What do you want to achieve in 2020?
What goals do you have for your career and life?
Dreams about a great future or getting a new career are just thoughts in your head unless you choose to work out an action plan to get there and follow it every day.
Dreams are dreams and won’t get you anywhere.
Firm goals and an action plan will!
Get Motivated! The time to make changes for a better career is NOW!
Stop putting off all the things in your professional life that you know you need to address because nothing will change unless you start doing things differently.
Tips to get Moving
nSet goals to give you a direction to focus on – one that’s measurable and has an endpoint.
goals that interest you if you can.
■Choose
You are more likely to stay motivated if you’re working towards something that you genuinely want to do or achieve.
things that interest within goals that don’t.
■Fi■d
you
Sometimes other people set goals or tasks for us that we don’t find interesting or want to do.
So, try within that task you. and find that something does motivate
■Make
If you tell someone, help them make you accountable for sticking to the goal
your goal public
■P●ot
Draw or create a visual representation of how you’re coming closer to achieving the goal you’ve set yourself.
your progress your goal achievable chunks
nBreak
Start with easier tasks and work your way up to bigger challenges. nUse rewards
Promise yourself some sort of reward each time you complete a step/task.
Don’t do
into
Join a class, or find a teacher or someone you can share the experience with.
Other people’s encouragement to keep going can be a big boost to your motivation!
Quit Procrastinating
Putting off something to do tomorrow (or next year) when it can be done today.
You know what it’s like.
You want to achieve great things in your career, work, team or organisation, but tomorrow is another day.
2021 will be a new year and you’ll give your career goals a shot then.
Roughly 20 per cent of adults have regular bouts of procrastination, but as many as 80 per cent of people put off what they can do today
Ways it alone to overcome
smaller
procrastination
■Keep it simple.
Stop making a huge deal out of something.
yourself ‘why’ you want to achieve something.
■Ask
Our WHY is bigger HOW at thebeginning. than our
■Focus
Don’t delay or put off what you can do now.
talking and get moving. Success comes through action.
■Stop nGet out your calendar: Schedule when you are going to work on a project and block out that time.
the excuses that you’ve used for years.
■Forget
on what you are doing.
Be honest to yourself and stay committed.
If you aren’t honest with yourself, who will be?
■Reward good behaviour: Give yourself little breaks of rewards for achieving what you want to.
yourself for that happened in the past.
■Forgive
things
Get moving and out there.
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always received - Tony Robbins Not sure how to set goals? Learn more about SMART goals below.
SMART Goals
There is much research about successful people and what makes them top of their game. Some outcomes conclude that these people know what they want to do, have a plan and follow it. They don’t settle for what they don’t want.
They follow their goals and execute their plan.
SMART Goals are designed to encourage you to achieve your passions this year.
So rise to the occasion.
Feel energized, motivated. If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to build theirs!
Dhirubhai
Tycoon
Caryn Walsh
Leadership and Team Development Specialist, Business and Executive Coach, Psychologist, Pure Magic International Business Solutions
Stop putting off all the things in your professional life that you know you need to address because nothing will change unless you start doing things differently.
Ambani,
Business
5 Parts of a SMART Goal
nSpecific: You goal must be precise.
Example: By June 30 2020 I will find a new more suitable role for my skills.
■Measurab●e: What measurement will tell you that you have achieved your goal?
Example: In your plan work out what you want to achieve each month to reach this goal and assess your progress.
■Achievab●e: Is this goal possible in the time frame you want to achieve it, given the circumstances of your life?
Example: I will finish my degree this year and look after two children and work, so a new career by June 30 2020 may not be achievable.
■Rea●istic: Can I achieve my goals given the current climate of my organisation?
Example: The organisation’s focus is on quality in the first half of the year so will this prevent me from changing my career in the time frame I have indicated?
■Time-Bou■d: The period of time in which I want to achieve my goal
Example: I want to be Manager by June 15 2020
A goal properly set is halfway reached
Your Success depends on You! Others can encourage us and help us feel good about ourselves for pursuing ours goal but at the end of the day, it is up to every individual to move their careers and lives overall in the direction theywant to go.
If not you, then who?
Further Information
Chief
Pure Magic International Business Solutions is an international Leadership and Team Development Organisation that has been working in Fiji for 10 years with clients like Reserve Bank of Fiji, Ministry of Economy, Vinod Patel, EFL, Rosie Group, Westpac, Laucala, Radisson, Fiji Ports and HFC Bank, to name a few.
We’re happy to help you too. See www.puremagicbusiness. com.au