Goals

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At the end of last year, I made this I have been updating it as I go along and now that some goals have been completed I have to make new ones. 

Writing down some goals can provide direction and purpose to your decisions and behavior, especially if you feel like your floating along in life.  The most efficient way as stated by both Steven Covey and Jeff Haden is to work backward. Steven Covey called it “Begin with the end in Mind” and Jeff Haden would say “set the goal and forget it.” Both want readers to work backward from the end state. I have even heard Gary Vaynerchuk mention it, “Look at where do you want to be and reverse engineer the process.” This is a paraphrase, he uses more colorful language. 

I always ask myself (and clients) the miracle question. What you would you be doing if you didn’t have any obstacles? How would you spend your time? Obstacles can be anything from people to resources. After the what is identified then you turn to how. 

I am debt free, in control of how I spend my time, and in good health (the parts I can control). Here is my updated goal list. 

Life

• Zero student loan debt (before 2/21) 
• Home yoga practice
• Yoga teacher training in 2019

Career

• Get a marketable certification 
• Maintain 30+ clients a week until my debt is paid off then go down to 20 – 25
• Go to either the ACA or the LPCA-GA conference in 2019

Blog

• Short term
  • Figure out what the hell I am doing
• Long-term 
  • Maintain 2 posts a week

For you 

What goals do you have? Do have a plan? Have you updated the list as life happened? Get a notebook, write it all down, and get it done.

Books mentioned

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Power Lessons in Personal Change by Steven Covey
• Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win by Jeff Haden
• Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
  

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