Whilst I must say I am proud of my goal-awareness efforts this year (I have continually thought of and about them which is more than I can say for prior years) I have fallen a little off the bandwagon of having my finger on my goal-pulse.
I pride myself on being organised. I am sure I appear it mostly! But behind the scenes, in fact, just in our back room where my office is, would tell a completely different story. I am hoping that by later this afternoon, it will tell a different story again.
I am a putter-offerer. Someone who often says or thinks "I'll do that later."
There, I have said it. Out loud. Ok, it's on paper, but it is the same thing really. It's out there!
But where is 'later'? You can see from the photo, 'later' failed to turn up.
I am someone who will deal with what must be done because I naturally gravitate towards deadlines.
I plan, sometimes. I wish it were more often. In fact, daily. And that I worked towards it, daily. I admire organised and planned people. Oh to be so disciplined.
I on the other hand, am someone with a free spirit when it comes to planning and schedules. I love the idea of it, but I fail to stick to it. My naturally "oh that would be fun" trait tends to kick in. It wouldn't be such a problem if I wasn't trying to achieve anything, but I have lots on my 'to do' list that I would like to tick off, and quite a few big goals I would like to achieve. I'm also busy with kids, working, household duties etc, the list goes on and tend to fall prey to dancing to the beat of other people's drums.
At the end of the day, I realise it all comes down to planning. And discipline. Cue Chicago's song, Something's Missing, In My Life, Maybe It's You (planning and discipline).
As I said in my last post, honed skills of the successful include planning and discipline. I have also learned that I tend to find goals easier to get my head around when I think about other smaller tasks, backwards. It sounds weird to me too, however, to give you an example:-
This weekend we have two birthday parties for my son who just turned 4 - a family one and a friends from kindy one.
My usual way: float through the week aware that it is on, doing what I usually busy myself doing and then freak out at what I need to buy and prepare on each of the weekend's mornings.
My backwards way: think about the parties on the weekend and what times they are on, make a list of what needs to happen for them, and what other commitments we have on as well all week. Work out when each item can happen and what its deadline is.
In doing this, it allows me to plan in the best time to do the things that need to be done, in a timeframe that keeps things orderly and stress free.
To sum up my goal update, when I think of years gone by, I have achieved more this year than previously purely because of the thought processes I have had. I've previously listed the goal early in the year and then hoped for the best. This year I have deliberately thought about my demeanour towards goals. What I find challenging and why, and how to turn that around. I have ticked a few things on the list but business-wise I am not as far as I would liked to have been by now. Still, I have 4 months of the year left. With discipline and planning, my end of year goal update should be an interesting one!
What are your secrets for achieving your goals? Details please....
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