frankly speaking

Making Goals More Manageable

Setting goals this time of year has become pretty cliche. That said, very few people who don’t set goals for themselves rarely do anything of significance in their lives. With that in mind, I think we can all agree that it’s important to set some sort of goal for yourself, no matter how big or small.

I set a lot of goals last year - 10 in total. I didn’t accomplish all of them, but I got to most of them. As I wrote earlier, some of them forced me to change, while others forced me to become better.

This year, I’m changing my approach a little. Thanks to my friend Dave (read his post here), I too have decided to focus narrowing the list of things I want to accomplish. Instead of focusing on 10 or even 5 things I want to do, I’m drastically cutting down the number of goals I want to accomplish.

This year, I’m focusing on 3 things in my personal life, and 1 thing in my professional life. The key obviously, is when I accomplish these things, I want to do them really, really well. I want to focus on the details and make sure that come this time next year, I can review the things I set out to accomplish and say to myself, “Damn, I really nailed that.”