5 Habits to reach your goals faster

5 things you can do TODAY to improve goal focus. Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Zig Ziglar used to ask people what day they got the most done. His answer? The day before you go on vacation, because you have a clear goal and deadline, and you get a ton accomplished! His point is well-taken. Having goals, whether they are five-year goals, annual goals, or goals for the week or day, drives our focus and discipline. As leaders, our role is to move our organization in the direction of its goals. And your own actions on your own goals send a powerful message and make your suggestions and team-based process changes more believable and doable by your team. Here are five habits that, when appropriately adjusted, can make a big difference in how often and how effectively you reach your goals. Invest time. To reach our goals, we need time to think, study, make phone calls, try things, and much more. Reaching goals requires time. The reality is that goals are always important, but seldom seen as urgent. To achieve more goals faster you must schedule time to work on them. Create Better Timelines. When goals are set there is often a high level timeline for their achievement, which is a good and necessary step. Yet, those high level timelines aren’t enough. To achieve the goals you set, treat them like projects. Create milestones and timelines to transfer the good intentions of goal setting into the reality of goal achievement. Give consistent effort. Goals are best achieved though consistent, persistent, on-going effort. Resolve to make one forward step towards your goal each day. Too often goal achievement stagnates for lack of momentum and not knowing what to do next. If effort is consistent and ongoing, this block seldom occurs. Ask yourself and your team: what can we do (or did we do) to move towards our goals today? Create frequent reminders. This one is easy if you are changing the three habits we have already discussed! Find ways to keep your goals in front of you. Read them daily; post them in your office; discuss progress at team meetings. When our subconscious minds are aware of how important our goals are to us, and are constantly being reminded of that fact, it will go to work in helping notice and see opportunities. Raise expectations. Expect that your goals can be reached. Expect that you will find a way to dissolve or overcome the stumbling blocks. Working on expectations feeds belief and contributes to momentum as well. Your capacity and potential is nearly boundless, and goals are a key ingredient to you achieving even part of that potential.   Kevin Eikenberry Chief Potential Officer The Kevin Eikenberry Group p.s. Learn even more solutions to help your team set AND achieve goals in my new teleseminar, The Goal-Setting Leader. Learn more here. Join Me for My Upcoming Teleseminar: The Goal-Setting Leader: Remarkable Solutions to Help Your Team Set and Achieve Goals Date: December 2, 2013 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET Learn more and make plans to join me here.   My Subscriptions   You are receiving this email to this address: alanrussell@princetoncap.com  Update my contact information  click here to unsubscribe 8021 Westover Drive Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 United States | (317) 387-1424 You are receiving this email to this address: alanrussell@princetoncap.com Change Your Email or Update Your Contact Information Unsubscribe