Your GPS - Helping You Navigate To Someday

Goal setting is a crucial part of Getting to Someday. While you may have your own way of setting goals, we have created a system to help you, called the G.P.S. The G.P.S. will assist you in setting achievable goals and reaching them. It focuses on Goals, Priorities, and Strategies. Imagine you are heading off on a trip somewhere. You know where you want to go, but have no idea how to get there. You decide to just start out and drive randomly down different roads hoping you’ll eventually come across your destination. How effective do you think that would be? Instead, using your G.P.S., you can easily map out the path you need to take to get to where you’re going, lay out the marker points that you will find to ensure you stay on course, and know how to recognize the destination when you get there. Certainly you will have an easier time navigating and arriving at your final destination if you have a plan in place. So it is true with your life, you need to have goals, and a map to get there, to ensure ultimate success.

Goals:

When you think about Getting to Someday, you probably have pictures in mind of what your someday will be. You may even want to capture those by creating a vision board. To use the G.P.S. system, begin by writing down all your goals. When you write them down, make sure they are SMART goals – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Refine them further by making them goals that you could reach in a year. Remember, the more precise your desired destination, the more precisely your G.P.S. will work. Think of it as the difference of getting to a state, versus getting to a specific city in a state, versus getting to a specific address, in a city, in a state. Obviously if you are wanting to get to an address, you wouldn't just go to the state and hope you find it when you get there. Make your goals as specific as possible.

Priorities:

Next, have a look at the list of goals you have created. Take some time to consider each one, and then re-arrange them according to their priority in your life. By prioritizing your goals, you will know immediately where to start focusing your energy. Once you have done this, you can move on to the final step of the G.P.S. process.

Strategies:

The final key to the G.P.S. system is developing strategies to reach each of your goals. Again, these strategies should reflect the way you prioritized your goals. Take each goal and break it down into small steps – small things that you can do on a frequent basis to work toward your goal. Do this for each goal. Next go back week by week and write down the small steps you can do to navigate yourself toward your goal. Not only will this help give you a clear path to get to someday, it will also allow you to recognize the small goals you achieve on the way to the ultimate goal. These small goals should be celebrated, and serve as a confirmation that you are truly headed in the correct direction to reach your destination.




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