I thought I’d start this week out talking about goals and the best way to go about reaching them. Today you will hear my point of view of establishing goals and working towards them. And tomorrow you’ll hear from a successful designer and her thoughts on how to reach your goals. Why 2 points of view you ask? Everyone needs to hear different takes and methods as not everyone learns the same way. Take making dinner for example, some of you may thoroughly read the recipe, gather all of your ingredients and then begin making sure no step is left un-read. But some may just dive in and begin getting their hands dirty. It all depends on your learning style. So let’s start with my point of view, ok?
Before I would make lofty goals with no plan on how to reach them. I would post them on my blog or in my office for a reminder but that was it. Sometimes I would get lucky and accomplish them but most of the time they would be forgotten. The key, I believe, to overcoming this requires 3 steps.
1. When creating your goal determine a deadline. This is really important because if you need to accomplish a goal but have no deadline there is no fire lit to get you moving. You will always say in your head, “Oh I can work on that next month.” And then that will become a recurring trend. So create a goal and make a deadline and stick to it!
2. Create steps to accomplish your deadline. Something new to me as I never thought about creating steps, I just jumped in, similar to diving in when making dinner. So when doing this, break down each step that it would take to reach your said goal. Start big and then work small.
3. Make deadlines for your steps. Really! This is important to keep you on track to reaching your goal by your deadline. Again, something I never thought about doing, but once I did, it made reaching my goal more doable and less overwhelming.
So far this methodology adapted from Craft Inc. is working and I feel confident in what I’m doing and feel like my goal is reachable. Since doing this I have 3 goals I’m working on simultaneously. I would recommend keeping the number of goals to a small number, no more than 5 to not overwhelm you and keep you on track.
Check back tomorrow for some more advice on goal setting.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to write this up for us Bridgett. These techniques can be used for so many facets of someone’s life, not only professionally but also personally. Looking forward to the next installment.