You have to share your goals if you want to get results.

Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.

Here is what I discovered today in our Dadly Daily Declaration reading from The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne.

The title of today’s reading is “The Truth About Setting Goals.”  Let’s get started:

• With your vision in place, you can now go about setting specific outcomes and subsequent process goals to achieve them. Goal setting is not fantasy. It is about adding deadlines on your dreams, accepting ownership of your future, and identifying the actions you must take.
• Mark Ford taught me that you should set only four goals at one time, one for your health, wealth, social self, and personal enrichment. These make up the key areas in a person’s life. You are more likely to be a happy, well-rounded, and satisfied person when you are doing well in all of them.
• By setting just one goal for these four areas you remain laser focused on what matters. If you set too many goals you end up without any priorities at all. Too many ambitious people make that mistake. I did for many years. But when I made the switch to Mark’s system, success came faster, and I was less stressed. Even within these four areas, however, you are likely to be more focused on one area than on the others.
• There’s one more change you’ll make to your goal-setting plan. The key to achieving your goals is to have the right steps in place to move you towards them. Without these steps in place, a lot of people lose momentum and quit pursuing their big goals and dreams. That’s why you need to create several small process goals that will support the achievement of your outcome goals.
• Most people focus only on outcome goals, such as “making $100,000 per year” or “losing twenty-five pounds.” But these goals can be too big to comprehend, too abstract to achieve. The solution is to create process goals to go with each outcome goal so that you have a series of action steps that move you towards your big goal each day or week.
• To perfect your goal-setting plan, you must a) determine what actions are needed to achieve that end result and subsequently b) go out and do it. By setting a clear outcome goal and creating three specific process goals to support it, you commit to doing everything in your power to turn your dreams into reality. For example, if you want to lose twenty-five pounds, adding process goals such as “I will do bodyweight workouts three times per week,” “I will stop eating each night at 7 p.m.,” and “I will walk 10,000 steps each day” puts you in a better position to succeed.
• In a lot of ways, process goals are the most rewarding aspect of goal setting. They take any huge goal and break it down into an unintimidating series of actions, giving you a constant sense of accomplishment in the pursuit of your overall ambitions.

Here are more specific ideas to help you set your outcome and process goals for each of the four areas in life.

• The Health Goal
  • When it comes to choosing a health goal, think about all the areas you could improve that would enrich your life. What specifically do you want to change? Do you want to improve your blood pressure, lower your cholesterol level, decrease your body weight, or reduce your body fat percentage?

  • Even if you are already doing most things right, you could probably benefit from eating more green vegetables, drinking more water, or getting more sleep. Choose one outcome goal to fix your biggest health concern and create three process goals to help you achieve it in ninety days or less.

• The Wealth Goal
  • If you can meet your wealth goals, achieving your goals in all other areas of your goals in all other areas of your life will become far easier.
  • Whatever your financial circumstances, be specific when setting your wealth goal. How much do you want to earn this year? How much do you want to reduce your debt? How much do you want to pay off of your mortgage?
  • Wealth goals can also include lifestyle-related changes. Decide which is the most important to you and which would you like to change first.
    • Do you want to be able to afford to send your child to private school or college?
    • Do you want to move to a different, more expensive, safer neighborhood?
    • Do you want to save for a particular dream vacation?
    • Do you want to buy something specific?
    • Do you want to make a large charitable donation?
  • When setting process goals for wealth, try creating a three-account system. This system forces you to think about your money as being in three funds: your expenses account, your savings account, and your investment account. One of your wealth process goals will involve putting a system in place that automatically adds a certain amount of money to take care of each account every month. Adding money into each account will increase your wealth over time.
  • Break down your wealth goal into smaller steps and you will achieve progress every week, creating the momentum that will support you moving in the right direction.
• The Social Self Goal
  • This category refers to your relationship with others, including your family, your friends, and your co-workers. What relationships are most important to you? How can you improve—or fix—them?
    • Do you want to take your family on vacation?
    • Do you want to meet a new life partner?
    • Do you want to reconcile your relationship with a family member?
    • Do you want o meet twenty new people in your community?
    • Do you want to find a mentor?
  • If you are looking to meet new friends or find a life partner and you do not set goals, chances are you won’t do anything about it. Much more likely, you will sit at home feeling lonely, wondering where you are going wrong. You need process goals to move you to action in the right direction. For example, one process goal would be to do three social outings per week, such as attending a basketball game with friends, joining a group that meets to play cards, volunteering on a community project, taking up dance lessons, etc.
  • You might be tempted to skip out on setting goals for improving your social self. Don’t make that mistake. You will notice that each of your goals supports the others, and that the actions you take will get you closer to more than one of them. This is important as it reiterates just how central and interconnected the actions you take are to your overall success in life.
• The Personal-Enrichment Goal
  • If you think of social self goals as working on the development of your outward facing self, then personal-enrichment goals cover improvements you want to make within.
  • Do not leave out personal-enrichment from the goal setting equation. It’s easy to see why you set your other goals. You want to have wealth because money is helpful. It’s a useful tool. It is better to have money than to not have money. Health is important because you cannot enjoy life without it. Your social self is important because you need a network of strong, healthy relationships. But equally as important, your personal enrichment goals allow you to enrich your mind and your soul…rewards that often prove to be the most satisfying. What is more, they can also be the most fun ones to work towards. Make sure you choose something that is really worthwhile to you.
  • Examples of personal-enrichment goals include a desire to speak a foreign language or to read every book on a list of classics.
  • You might focus on your creative side, finally writing the novel you had been putting off for years. You might set a goal to get involved in hands-on charity work rather than just donating money to a cause. You might choose a spiritual approach, reading books about religion or attending a retreat, delving deeper into prayer and/or meditation, or attending church every week.
  • If you want to deepen your understanding of and commitment to your religion, your process goals would be to sign up to attend a Bible study course and commit to attending every meeting. Another process goal would be to carve out time each week to review each lesson in advance. A third process goal would be to find a study buddy. With these in place, success is inevitable.
  • Experiences also lend themselves to solid personal-enrichment goals. How often do you hear someone say, “I’ve always wanted to swim with dolphins,” “I’d love to go to Japan,” or “I’d like to do a parachute jump”? If that sounds like you, why not set a timeframe for the experience, and work towards all the things you need to do to make it happen?
  • The bottom line is that just about anything you would like to do or improve about your inner self counts as a personal- enrichment goal. Just remember, this goal is all about working towards things that are personally rewarding and which help make you, in your mind, a better person.

• You now have four outcome goals and three process goals for each. With these in place, you will build momentum every day, no matter how small of a step and now matter how big of a goal. You will begin to feel as though you can achieve anything.

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Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:

You have to share your goals if you want to get results. The trick is to only share your goals with the right people, those who will support and encourage you. It is important to find the right people!