Give your goals an exhaustive overview. Write them down and then read and re-read them.
You should know that a list with more than 2 or 3 goals is excessive and not well defined. Try to do it over and over again until you come to the desired number of solid goals.
STEP 2
Now, review your long-term plans for the achievement of your goals. Those plans should be detailed enough to give you a hint on how you’ll achieve the goal. Make those plans simple – if it doesn’t fit to a definition of “how to get from point A to point B”, you are not doing something right. Try again.
STEP 3
Create a monthly, weekly or daily milestones towards the achievement of your goals. Break apart your plans into milestones. One way to do it is to split any measurable goal into distinct parts, and then commit your time to each one of them.
STEP 4
Create a plan of action. Determine what objectives need to be fulfilled and what actions you have to perform to get closer to achieving that milestone? List it all.
STEP 5
In this last step, select your MITs from your weekly plan and determine how you can best achieve that week’s objectives.
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STEP 1
Give your goals an exhaustive overview. Write them down and then read and re-read them.
You should know that a list with more than 2 or 3 goals is excessive and not well defined. Try to do it over and over again until you come to the desired number of solid goals.
STEP 2
Now, review your long-term plans for the achievement of your goals. Those plans should be detailed enough to give you a hint on how you’ll achieve the goal. Make those plans simple – if it doesn’t fit to a definition of “how to get from point A to point B”, you are not doing something right. Try again.
STEP 3
Create a monthly, weekly or daily milestones towards the achievement of your goals. Break apart your plans into milestones. One way to do it is to split any measurable goal into distinct parts, and then commit your time to each one of them.
STEP 4
Create a plan of action. Determine what objectives need to be fulfilled and what actions you have to perform to get closer to achieving that milestone? List it all.
STEP 5
In this last step, select your MITs from your weekly plan and determine how you can best achieve that week’s objectives.