Yes, you have entered the last six months of 2012! I hope that you are celebrating the first half of the year as productive, fulfilling or enlightening. Now is your chance to set your course for the rest of the year.
Goals are translations of your dreams translated into bite sized pieces, so you can believe “I can do it”. The best place to start this goal setting exercise, your goal review is to think back to the first day of this year. You may have made New Year’s resolutions, you have called them 2012 goals. Some of you may have even set five year goals and worked back to identify what you would want to achieve in 2012 taking you closer to achieving your dreams.
Please take a look at your 2012 goals. Write down all of your successes– and I mean all, every little one– from the first half of 2012. Now is the time to celebrate with all of your enthusiasm and energy. When the year is completed, you will remember the encouragement and empowerment that you felt from this celebration and acknowledgement of your determination to succeed.
Now you may already have an excellent idea plan to reach the end of the year with a lot of success. You may be newly creating goals because you realize that what you write down is what you achieve. Or you may be creating some new goals because you already achieved those you had identified for this year– Congratulations. But whatever your situation, it is time to write or re-write the goals you want to achieve in the second half of 2012.
This goal-setting exercise begin with you brain storming what you would like for your goals five years in the future. This is a great way to set out on the path to your dreams.
Please set aside about 10 to 15 minutes for this exercise.
- When you are ready, take a clean piece of paper.
- Set a timer or use your watch.
Now write down anything you would like to achieve, create, give, have, do and or experience in the next 5 years on your paper. Set your timer for five minutes. Write whatever comes to your thoughts. Allow a stream of consciousness. Write everything down. Do not judge or cancel any thought.
Now go through the list and, next to each item, write down in what time frame you want to accomplish it. One year, three years or five years.
Circle the one year goals. Pick your top three that you would like to achieve.
Write down what smaller goals you will want to achieve in the next six months that would take you to each of these goals in the future.
Now you know what you want to work towards to celebrate on December 31st, 2012!
You have a path to the end of the 2012 to make it a successful and fulfilling year!
- What did you learn about yourself doing this exercise?
- Was anything a surprise to you?
- What is the one action you will take for each goal that will propel you forward?
Have an outstanding second half of the year!