Chalene starts out in her beautiful home with her beautiful self again and tells me that we are going to be doing some crazy cool stuff today. We will be aligning our goals for the year with our key priority.
What!? Wow...it's like she jumped into my brain and read my mind. This is EXACTLY what I wanted to get out of this challenge. Totally excited now.
Ah...just learned a little something. We've all set goals before and we've all not reached them...right? Chalene seems to say that it's because they didn't line up with our key priority. Because they were out of balance, they were not as important to us. Interesting....moving on....
So today we're setting 10 goals either on a piece of paper or on the .pdf that she is going to provide. I'm probably going to just use the .pdf but write down my answers here to hold me accountable. Okay, she says there are a couple of habits she wants me to get into:
NEW HABITS:
1. Create my list of 10 goals every week WITHOUT looking at past goal lists.
2. Assign a specific day of the week and time of day you will create this list.
Okay, I'm a little confused now...aren't we creating 10 goals for the year? Chalene goes on to talk about the reason why you shouldn't look at a past weeks list when you are creating your new list. You want each goal list to be a reflection of what is truly on your heart at that moment. She says that you'll find that some goals keep showing up over and over again while others will begin to drop off. Those that drop off typically aren't aligned with your key priority. Okay...got it.
Okay...here are the rules for the goals:
1) They should be crazy-cool...like nearly impossible, but possible. Things that give you a little apprehension in your gut but a big smile when thinking about achieving.
2) Re-read your goals and ask yourself is this going to take me away from and/or is in conflict with my key priority?
Ah, this is making sense now. So, first I'm supposed to just write 10 crazy goals that get me all excited and then I need to press them against my key priority statement and see if they mesh or not. If it's indifferent, you can keep it. However, if it's something that will hurt or take you away from your key priority statement, you should re-consider it.
3) Write the goals as if you had already accomplished them.
Now THIS is something that I totally agree with her on. Whenever I live my life as if I'm already where I want to be, it seems like everything falls into place to get me there faster. This was a good step.
4) All the goals must have 'measure'.
Essentially she's saying all the goals need to have a specific action and a specific time frame they need to be completed in. Setting random goals with no measurable results only leaves you guessing as to whether or not you've achieved it. It's the difference between saying, "I will to love weight" versus "I will lose 10 pounds in the next 4 weeks." See what I mean? The second statement is something that has a definite ending point - so you know whether or not you've achieved it.
She says the more specifically you write your goals, the more chance there is that you will accomplish them.
If you get stuck and can't think of any more, then go to the list and pick one of those areas where you scored yourself lower and write a goal for that area.
One last thing...she wants at least one of the goals to be a financial goal. Make sure the goal improves your financial situation somehow. Okay....that sounds like a plan to me!
That is the end of the video. Now I'm downloading the .pdf and below you'll see what I come up with.
Looking at the goal worksheet I see there are 10 spots to write down my goals. But at the top of the paper in a square there is something called a "push goal". She didn't talk about that in today's video - so I'm hoping that is something we'll discuss tomorrow.
TOP 10 GOALS
1) I weight 165 pounds.
2) I have zero credit card debt.
3) I have a date night alone with my husband outside the house once a week every month.
4) I wear a size 12 jeans.
5) I have a new size 12 little black dress with strappy heels I wear for our Anniversary in November.
6) I will take a vacation with my husband and kids to Florida to go to Disney and Universal.
7) I will have a BMI of at least 24 which puts me into the average range.
8) I will contribute 5% to my 401K at work.
9) I will have normal cholesterol, bloodpressure and normal A1C levels at my annual Dr appointment.
10) I will run a 5K race.
I found it really hard to come up with 10 goals for some reason. I'm hoping that doing this every week is going to make this process easier, but we'll see. So, now that I have them I need to put them up against my key priority statement. The ones that are in alignment are 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 & 10. Number 2 is my financial goal she asked to come up with that helps our financial situation. Number 3 is one of my lower-scoring life areas that needs improving. Number 8, although it's financial, is really about feeling secure for me so I'm keeping that one. But number 6...that is one that is indifferent to my key priority statement. It doesn't take away from it in any way. So, I'll keep that too.
Awesome, I have my list of 10 goals for the year now! I'm excited to learn what this 'Push' goal thing is.
See you tomorrow,
~Julie
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