Goal Setting Simplified

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Who here sets goals? Whether its health and wellbeing goals, financial goals, career goals or anything under the sun, really! Setting goals is a great strategy to establish a target to aim for. Sometimes it can be overwhelming and hard to know where to begin, check out this little guide to make goal setting (and then reaching those goals!) a little easier.


WHAT IS THE GOAL?

Firstly, you must decide on your goal. What is it that you want to achieve? Write it down. Then look at it. Make it a SMART goal.

  • Make it SPECIFIC - Narrow down and be as precise as possible

  • Make it MEASURABLE - How will you measure your success? Is it a numerical value you want to reach (i.e a goal weight or set number of $$ in the bank). Aim to have your goal something which can be quantified.

  • Make it ACHIEVABLE - Is the goal achievable? If not, make a smaller goal, make a goal that can be reached in a shorter period of time.

  • Make it REALISTIC - Will it actually happen? Be practical.

  • Make it Timely - How long will you have to reach the goal? Set a time-frame for success. Whether it be 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.

STOP START CONTINUE.

Once you’ve figured out the mega goal at hand, it’s then time to break it down a little. Have a think about what you will need to start doing to meet your goals, what you need to stop doing, and what you should continue doing in order to achieve your goals.

That’s start, stop, and continue.

  1. You start doing the things you determine you need to do to accomplish your goals.

  2. You stop doing the things that get in the way of the achievement of your goals.

  3. You continue doing the things that align with those goals.

By dividing your efforts into those clear steps (start, stop, and continue), you are able to clearly define the new actions you should take, and the changes you need to make going forward.

PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.

For example, your goal might be;

To Eat 5 Serves of Vegetables Atleast 5 Days Of The Week By The End of The Month.

Then, to do this - you might decide to;

STOP Eating crackers and dip in the afternoons and substitute celery & carrot sticks.

START Having at least 3 serves of vegetables with dinner, cooked anyway you like.

CONTINUE Having avocado & tomato on toast each morning.


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