By Julie Harris
Did you set specific goals for 2008? What are/were you planning?
Define what that means. For some people that means spending more time with their family than they’ve ever spent before. For some that means three more transactions. What does it mean to you?
It’s time to check up on yourgoal setting. One of the first things to do is to look at where you are. Here’s an exercise called ‘Grade Your Life’. There’s more to life obviously than doing transactions and specific financial goals. This is for every area of your life.
Take your pencil and write at the top of your paper Grade Your Life’. This exercise has specific rules to it and you’re not allowed to think about it or mull it over. You have 45 seconds to complete it after you’ve written this down. Again, don’t think about it just do it.
The grading scale goes from ‘A’ to ‘F’ just like normal. ‘A’ is doing fantastic, ‘F’ is that you consider you’re failing at that certain part of your life and most people are somewhere in between.
Here are the categories:
1. Income
2. Savings/investment
3. Wealth
4. Close, personal relationships
5. Friendships
7. Knowledge and skill
8. Wisdom
All of us have different definitions for each of these categories. It doesn’t matter it means something to you and that’s the only thing that’s important here. Take 45 seconds and write down your initial reaction of how you grade yourself. Don’t think about it just do it.
This is where we start with goal setting. In order to know what you want you have to know where you are. This is a great exercise to know where you are today. Write this down.
“You’ll accomplish more through movement than through meditation.”
–Anonymous
Your brain is about 100 times as active once you get in the movement. Your mind actually loves physical activity. It’s something to consider. How does that relate back to your goals?
Look at how you rated yourself and ask yourself, what am I doing? The ones that you’ve graded yourself an A+ that’s fantastic. What are you doing to keep yourself there?
The ones where you want to have a higher grade throughout 2008, how do you do that? What is the action? What is the movement that it will take to get you there?
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