What percentage of the population achieves all their goals? Let’s make this easier- ask the next 12 people you meet what their New Years Resolution was at the start of the year, then ask “Have you achieved it?”
If goal setting works you should get 12 achievers- right? Did you achieve yours? I know, the economy isn’t ideal, and your spouse didn’t do this and your business wasn’t in the right position. New Years Resolutions are the one time of the year nearly everyone sets goals, yet 95% of NYR are never achieved. I rest my case - Goal Setting doesn’t work!
But what about some of the fantastic acronyms you can come up with to sell goal setting? CREATE your Outcomes
C - Clear
R - Realistic
E - Ecological
A - As now
T - Timed
E - Evidence
That’s a lot of fun, but it’s not enough to quit smoking.
How about SMART Goals?
S - Specific
M - Measureable
A - Achievable
R - Realistic
T - Timed
Witty and wasteful. Let’s go further, to cutting edge Goal Setting. SMARTIE goals
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Achievable
R - Responsibility
T - Timed
I - Inspirational
E - Emotional
Let’s wrap all these funky acronyms into a pile and put it in the same bin we put our New Years Resolutions for the past 5 years. The problem is not with the acronyms. The problem is with the term itself- Goal Setting.
Goal setting conjures up images of expensive executive weekend retreats where we meditate, get whooped up by some motivational genius and discuss things like “If you couldn’t fail, what would you try?” Then, you go back to work on Monday and avoid eye contact with that person bonded with so well on the weekend after your fourth bottle of red. Nothing changes, and that’s the problem.
Goal setting has no requirement for the one element that will take you wherever you want to go - ACTION.
Goal Getting is the new buzz word. You can ‘set’ all you want but if you don’t ‘get’ you’ll eventually end up giving up on your disillusioned dreams.
I don’t have a trendy acronym for you- at least not yet. So here’s the process to get goals in 4 easy steps!
- Decide what you want and why you want it.
- Find out what you need to do to get what you want.
- Choose - either do it or don’t do it
- Take ACTION!
To Your Success
Simon Fox / Anthony Spark
Co-Founders WYN Training Solutions
www.wyn.com.au
