155. Goals and Visions
In the past seven or eight years I’ve been working with goals and visioning. It began as my daughter started her own coaching and consulting business. I agreed to be one of her first clients in a program called “Best Year Yet.” I worked with her for several years and then did it on my own for several years. Now she and I are back to working together again.
I’ve learned a number of things from visioning and goal-setting:
1. It helps me to set goals. I have found even when I was doing it by myself that as I approached the monthly deadline, I hustled to get some things done that I had said I would do.
2. I absolutely love the starting again on a new month, and get excited about new possibilities.
3. Failing to meet a goal doesn’t mean that I’ve failed. It means that perhaps the goal needs to be shifted. Or it means that I am stuck about something in that goal and need to look a little deeper about what that could be.
4. My goals and visions are not set in stone and therefore unchangeable. I can re-write the vision and add to it at any time.
5. I am already anticipating the new year. I give myself until January 10th to have my goals for the year in place. They end up being like resolutions, but they somehow are also different because I work them. I don’t just give up on them.
6. When I was working with Donna (whose business is www.CompassRoseConsulting.com), I would come up with a mantra for the year. One year the mantra was: Hold the vision and move it!
And every year I do.
