87 Days Left--What Can You Do?
Oct 05, 2020
"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
--Jim Rohn
I know, I feel the same way, too. 2020 can't be over fast enough. BUT...do we just want to survive it, or do we want to position ourselves for a stellar 2021. We don't know yet what next year is going to look like. We can wait to find out, or we can do what we can do to catapult ourselves into 2021. Maybe we could set some goals.
Many people don't even like to hear about goal setting. They have not reached their goals in the past and have come to believe, "what's the use, I tried so many times." This "failure" becomes their identity. They keep living day in and day out the same life, thinking that they are unable to change. NOT.
I believe most, if not all of us, have a longing to be more, do more and have more. Or maybe this longing manifests itself in a very subtle discontent. This dissatisfaction can urge us identify our vision...what we want for our life...that's where the goal setting becomes so important.
The most successful people on this planet didn’t wake up one day with an idea and a few minutes later after they got dressed became successful…No way. They had an idea and they developed a plan. Within that plan there were goals – some big, some little – some attainable, some way out there.
And each day, they worked at it – chipping away, having triumphs and failures along the way but tweaking and re-evaluating and working toward their desired life.
Have you ever thought about it this way? We have had goals from the day we were born. Sit up. Crawl. Walk. Talk. Feed ourselves. Dress ourselves. Express ourselves. Make friends. Learn. Communicate. Develop relationships. Learn a skill. When you think about it, it's true, we've been setting goals since we were babies. And look, we have achieved these. We didn't care how many times we fell on our butts (failed) when we wanted to walk. We just kept doing it until we got it right.
Going through life without goals is like getting in our car and driving aimlessly expecting to arrive at our destination without a clue how to get there. If we had a road map or a GPS, we could have gotten there in a reasonable amount of time but because we just drove and drove – maybe we will eventually get there but at what cost? How much time and energy did we waste because we didn’t take a couple minutes to punch in the destination in our GPS? AND did our destination give us joy? Were we excited to get there?
We have 87 days left to plan for 2021. Here are some ideas:
1. What does your desired life look like? Spend a couple of hours really thinking about what you want. Then write it down.
2. Who do you need to become to get what you want? What characteristics do you need to develop?
3. List the thing or things that you perceive are preventing you from getting there.
4. What are 5 things you can do NOW to overcome the things listed in step 3 so you can move forward to the destination of your desire?
5. What is ONE big thing that you've been putting off? Do it now.
There. That wasn't so hard, was it? The benefit of starting now, is that you can get your destination locked in your mind's eye. Then you develop a plan and create habits that will get you there. Baby steps now (we still have 87 days) will help you finish this year strong and launch into 2021 prepared for your best year yet.
If you need help with this, I'm just an email away!
Excitedly typed,
Jan
Jan McDonald
John Maxwell Team
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