It is that time of year to set your goals for 2012. Make sure your goals are measurable, attainable specific, realistic and time bound. I got the following list from my Sandler training systems training manual. My sales coach at Sandler Training systems is Karl Shaphorst
Your Goals
Force you to define your value system
Force you to set priorities
Identify a track for your to follow
Help you manage behavior
Identify your strengths and weaknesses
Improve self esteem
Motivate you
I have the following types of goals
Spiritual
Family-I even break it down by family member
Physical
Career
Financial
Educational
Personal
For the last 10 years I review the previous years goals when setting the current years goals. Normally my goals are several pages long.
For example last year my goal was to do a sub 14 hr Ironman. Under that goal I put how I was going to accomplish it. For example, I put that I wanted to find and follow a training plan. I also put that I wanted to swim three times a week. Another thing was to read as many articles as I could find on Iron man Distance triathlon training and race execution. The end result was a 12:34 Ironman. Next years goal is to do a sub 12 hr Ironman. Under this goal will be things such as find a personal swim coach, etc
This year, in addition to the list that I put together. Karl Shaphorst had us prepare a presentation of our goals in a visual way. Karl set out about two dozen magazines we then cut out pictures and headlines from the magazines which represented each one of our goals. We then glued these on a piece of heavy stock paper and we presented these to the class.
To make it more interesting, I did this with my family and my kids absolutely loved it. We spend 90 minutes cut and gluing and then each one of us presented our goals to the whole family
I encourage all of you to do this, it is a great family activity and its good for goal setting for the up coming year.
You then keep the board of goals in a place that you can review throughout the year.
