Setting Goals in 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the last few days, and while it’s hard in some ways because things are very open ended at the moment, there are a lot of things I can specify now what my goals are.
One thing I found with last years goals was that it was hard to focus on so many things all the time. To keep them in mind. I tried to read them as much as possible, but in about September I decided that perhaps it would have been better to simply choose a couple of things to focus on each month.
When I sat down today to seriously think about my goals for the coming year I came up with 24 categories I wanted to set goals in. Woops - I think that kind of defeats the purpose a little bit. Those 24 were very specific projects. I thought perhaps I should try and put them in categories, and these were the one’s I came up with: Blogs, Craft, Social, Work, Kids, Home, Me.
I’ve slotted each of my specific projects into each category. Maybe instead of year-long goals (given the uncertain nature of the coming year) monthly goals might be the way to go? With some over-arching goals to work towards (similar to last year - eg. maintain credit average at uni).
What’s your strategy for goal stetting?
For the record, these are my categories and sub-projects:
Blogs: Kin’s Home, Kin’s Money, a new blog, Aussie Bloggers
Craft: Knitting, Sewing, Cross-stitch, Cards, Jewellery making
Social: Lions, Youth of the Year, ABA group
Work:Uni, Tupperware, Jobs
Kids: School, Daycare, Dancing, Gymnastics
Home: Scanning photos, Decluttering, Gardening
Me: Exercise, Health
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I love the goal-setting process of “Best Year Yet” by Jenny Ditzler. In particular, she gets you reviewing the year that was before you start looking at the year that will be, you have to come up with the roles that you play, and set goals by those, and also you end up with a top 10 list as well as a major focus. (I put mine up at http://crystalsquest.com/2008-review-2009-goals/) It’s a perfect system for an overcommitted underachiever like me!
Wow, I’ve seen some interesting goal setting today. I love this way of doing it, simply categorising. I REALLY need to sit down and set myself some personal, study and business goals for this year… Perhaps I should stop blog hopping and do it now… LOL>. but it just isn’t nearly as fun
Good luck with all your goals.