In my last blog article, I talked about “Looking back at your goals for the first six months of the year”. We talked about how to re-evaluate those goals and make the adjustments needed to move forward.
So, ready to take on the remaining part of the year to make it an amazing year?
YAY! CONGRATULATIONS, So far you’ve taken a good shot at your goals for the first six months and you’ve had a good run at it. You deserve the accolades!
You probably have a better sense of the challenges you faced and what you need to do to make the rest of the year stunning.
Do you have a word that describes your goals for the year? Mine is Manifest.
Having a word like this helps me stay on course and helps me get back on when it feels like I am falling off track.
How often should I evaluate my goals?
So this depends on the nature of your goals, and what exactly you’re trying to achieve. Most fitness experts would recommend you wait at least a week or two for results, but you should also pay attention to your body to notice subtle changes and respond appropriately.
Why should I review my goals?
Constantly reviewing your goals and how far you’ve come in achieving them helps remind you of the reasons you set out to achieve them in the first place. This helps you to build confidence for future commitments. The moment you regularly review your goals and your progress so far, it makes you feel good about yourself.
Don’t lose focus of your aspirations, else you’ll lose focus of your goals.
We must stay focused on our goals and aspirations. Remind yourself often of the objectives of your goals and the values they hold for you. Goals like personal fitness goals can have a transforming effect on your life and so should not be taken lightly.
It is important not to forget the Whys and the Values they hold for you your aspirations in life. If you lose them, it’s only a matter of time; you will lose focus on the goals needed to achieve them.
Life is all about reflection and your goals shouldn’t be left out.
Even though we all have goals, yet not everyone has the drive required to achieve those goals. Having a process of review is therefore very important if we’re to stay on course. It’s not going to be a walk in the park, but constantly reviewing your goals, your process, and your daily progress sets you on a more assured path of fulfilling those goals and aspirations.
Five reasons why it is important to review our goals if we must succeed
- A destination without a road map is a wish: Ever tried to take a ride to a location without knowing how to get there and with no one or anything to help you? Yes, that’s what it feels like, a journey to nowhere. Even though you think you know where you’re going NOWHERE e going if you don’t know NOWHERE.
- Without repetition, goals will escape the mind: Humans they say are creatures of habit, the more we do something, the more it sinks into our subconscious, and eventually, it comes naturally to us. Constant repetition helps you maintain focus.
- We will lose desire, which causes a goal to lose its value: Just like we said earlier, review constantly, remind yourself of the whys and keep the fire burning if you’re to remain on course to achieving your goals. I cannot overemphasize this.
- Progress equals happiness: Trust me, there’s no better feeling you get than when you see yourself achieving your set goals. It’s like an adrenaline rush, that pumps you up and puts you in overdrive mode to keep achieving more.
- Reading our goals daily should motivate us: Stay motivated, remind yourself of your goals daily, monitor your progress and pat yourself on the back once you’re achieving them. You deserve all the accolades you give to yourself.
Now that we’ve seen why it is important to regularly review our goals, let’s dive deeper to find out how we can re-evaluate these goals and what adjustments we can make to re-align if we’re missing out.
January – June:
Summary question – Did I make progress these months (Yes or No)
- Is there something I would like to do differently next month?
- Do I need to change my process?
- Do I need to get help from others?
- How do I feel about my progress so far this year? (Rate your progress from 1 to 10)
- What are my biggest accomplishments for the year? (List them)
- How do I feel about these accomplishments? (Describe your feelings in three words)
- How would I rate my productivity in 2021 so far? (Rate your progress from 1 to 10)
- What can I do to increase my productivity? (write three actionable items)
Additional notes:
With all this in mind, let’s now take a look at how you can intentionally reassess your life goals today.
- Revisit your original goals
- Evaluate your techniques
- Evaluating your goals
As you work on your goals, you want to make sure to find out whether or not they’re working and if you’re achieving your objectives.- Are these tasks moving towards success?
- If not, why?
- What adjustments can you make to get them working for you?
- What are those things that are working well and how can I do more of them?
- When your timeline for achieving your goals is up, you need to figure out whether or not you have reached those goals. This of course depends on how far off your goal is and how many tasks are needed to get to them. It is a good idea to carry out minor evaluations as you go along to make sure that all your efforts are channeled in the right direction.
- Monthly evaluations of what’s going on in your business to have an idea of what’s working and what’s not will be very helpful too. At the very least, you should do quarterly evaluations for goals that are set for months ahead.
- Re-evaluate Goals
It’s not enough to evaluate, you also have to re-evaluate. Whenever we make adjustments to our tasks and goals, these adjustments do not guarantee solutions to helping us achieve our objectives. Sometimes, these adjustments could even make things worse so we have to re-evaluate our decisions to make sure they’re always aligned to our overall goals and objectives.
- Specific Goals
The first part of a SMART goal setting is the S, which simply means we have to be “specific” with our goal setting. Vague goals don’t inspire enough and can be difficult to track.
For instance, having a goal like; I want to make more money in my home business this year. So technically, if you make 1 cent more in your business, you’ve achieved that goal. However, I’m sure that’s not what you want, instead, you can rephrase by saying; I want to make $10,000 more in my home business by the end of 1st quarter this year. That’s more specific. - Measurable Goals
The “M” in the SMART goals means to make sure your goals are measurable. Measurable and specific usually go together, although not always. The important point to note here is you need to know exactly what the end goal is so you can track your progress to know when you’ve attained it.
You can apply this to your regular everyday goals like work projects and not necessarily to your overarching long-term goal. For instance making a work project measurable could mean instead of saying “I’ll work on project A today”, rather you say “I’ll work on project A for two hours today”. That way you can measure if you’ve spent 2 hours on it or not.
For what it’s worth, I wish you success as you plan your goals and set out to achieve them
If the plan doesn’t work,
change the plan but never the goal.
S-M-A-R-T
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely!
Happy Planning!
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