Getting Ready for the New Year? Now is the Time to Set Your #TrueGoal
What's the right time to plan your next week? 🤔 I dunno, Friday?
What's the right time to plan your next year...that's definitely December 🥳!
I'll admit my days and weeks are sometimes more chaos than order. That's been a downside of being an Entrepreneur, your own boss.
The downside is - there is no boss telling you what you need to do 😃
So sometimes I wake up and I have no idea, what I should do today? (Or not do, and just goof off!).
But it still all seems to work out quite well in the end, perhaps because...
I have the annual planning nailed 🎯
Like I'm completely fabulous at it :-)
Oh well, I have found a system that works for me. Happy to share it with you; feel free to copy or adapt as you wish.
Plan Your Breakthrough Year: Setting Your Goal
Goals are important.
But what has NEVER really worked for me are…
❌ S.M.A.R.T. Goals ❌
I don't like SMART goals. They just have never worked for me. (If they work for you, great, you can stop reading now :-))
But if you've struggled with SMART Goals, here is my alternative.
✔️ T.R.U.E. Goals ✔️
Which is an acronym for...just kidding 🙂, it's not an acronym.
Just..."True Goal".
Yup that's it.
❝Okay Avi, what the heck is a True Goal?❞
Ah...for that let's step into the time machine and go back to when I turned 40.
For some folks turning 40 is not a big deal at all. For me, it was a huge navel gazing 👀 event.
I really started questioning my life.
What had I done so far?
What did I want the rest of my life to be about?
I realized that in some way or form, all my life I had been chasing money 🤑.
Now I was a kid who grew up in the dusty streets of India.
My first job had a salary of whopping $3000 per year (yup per year).
Hitting my 40, I was making, what I would have considered at some point of time - an obscene amount of money 💲💲💲.
But it didn't feel enough. It never felt enough.
But now I was just tired of chasing.
And I could see, that if I didn't stop, I would be chasing this the rest of my life.
And still not get to the land of "Enough".
I no longer felt like I had "The Answer" to life.
But when you are lost, is when you can be rescued.
When you don't have the answer anymore, is when you can ask new questions.
So I asked a simple one:
❝If I did have ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD,
What kind of life would I like to live?❞
And I wrote down the answer. My True Goal.
Money is just a means to an end. But when we fixate on money, we forget our true goal.
And this is the first and the most crucial step in planning your best next year.
Are you ready to set your true goal?
How to Set Your True Goal?
Just ask yourself the question:
What would you want your life be like,
if you had all the money in the world?
Here's the catch ⚾
Do not to focus on things, but feelings. If things come up in your answer, that's okay. Write them down. But go one level deeper.
Example 1: "If I had all the money in the world I would buy a Red Ferrari 🏎️"
Great, I'm happy for you.
But if you buy the Red Ferrari…how would that make you feel? What would that give you, that's missing now?
Perhaps a sense of accomplishment?
Then chase that feeling. Make that your true goal.
Example 2: "If I had all the money in the world, I would live on a private island in Hawaii 🌴".
Again, really happy for you.
But if you do live on that island…how would that make you feel? What would that give you, that's missing now?
Perhaps a sense of peace or freedom?
Then chase that feeling. Make that your true goal.
The Shocking Truth about True Goals…
There is something ⚡shocking⚡ that I discovered, once I set my True Goal (or may be it is obvious) …
I found out, you actually DON'T need all the money in the world to get there😃.
In fact, the true goal is often much (MUCH!) closer and achievable than the money goal 🤑 I had been chasing.
So what was my "True Goal" and how did I get there?
You can read about that here.
⚡Power On!⚡
Avi / PowerBIPro
