What Are Your Five Most Important Goals For This Year?

This is the second post in a continuing series designed to help you create a great 2008 - using questions to reflect on last year, and project into the future. All of the questions and additional information can be found in this tool, available for you to download now.

The second question is:

What are my five most important goals for this year?

While I believe it is valuable to share your most important goals with one or a few people (specifically people who will be supportive of you reaching those goals), I don't know that I want to share ALL of my most important goals with the entire world in this forum. Besides our family goal setting for the year isn't finished (we will work on that more this evening), so I couldn't present a completely prioritized list anyway.

Having said all that, I am prepared to share some of my goals here. Here are some of them:

- I will successfully complete the Indianapolis Mini Marathon in May.
- I will return to my goal weight of 178 (I wasn't very diligent in this area during the holidays).
- I will complete my next book.
- I will be a much more active blogger.
- I will learn more and be more active as a social networker.

After reading this list, I encourage you to read my last post. When you compare the lists from these two posts you will notice similarities. I hope that when you have answered these two questions you will find similarities as well. Having goals that you are genuinely excited about improves your chances for success significantly.

Note too that I have already taken daily steps towards all of these goals - and if you want to reach a goal, you need to be actively taking steps towards them.

1. I have been training for the Mini (which addresses the first two goals)
2. I have been outlining the new book over the past several weeks - and spend mental time on it last night while driving.
3. This very series of posts is a part of my strategy to be a more active blogger.
4. I've taken the plunge and joined Facebook. I'd love for you request friend ship with me if you are a member, or you could become a member, and know you'll have one friend right away!

If you haven't started your goal setting for the New Year, now is a great time. I encourage you to do all of the questions in this process as a part of that process. If you already have the goals set, great - doing the reflective questions and the rest of the projective questions will accelerate you towards success.

Labels: goals, questions, resolutions

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