Accomplish
ALL Your Goals, Realize Your Dreams!
At Allies
Consulting, we are fundamentally in the business of
making humans successful, even unstoppable. This is about
the technology of success, gleaned from over twenty years of
research and application: large and small business, high
tech and not, individual and corporate.
As you read this over,
you may realize these are all obvious components of
achievement. Yet no one before has ever offered this
technology, compiled as one, complete process. All your
successes probably included these (whether you were aware of
each step or not). If not, consider that you may have
expended excessive energy or resources to compensate for
those missing components of this process.
Begin inside you, with spiritual guidance. You have a
guidance system within you. It takes time, patience and
quiet reflection to use it. If what you are going for gives
you peace, energy, or an outpouring of ideas, you are likely
on-track. If your choice brings tension, you probably are
off-track. Your first responsibility is to choose the
right goals to pursue.
Define your life's purpose and your company's mission. These
are the greater context for your work. A true mission
naturally inspires, is a contribution to others, is brief,
and expresses a theme. It does not limit you to one product,
service, or task, but focuses on the impact you intend to
effect.
Engage your staff and other allies in this entire process:
they can enrich every aspect of the planning,
troubleshooting, creative endeavors and uncovering of
resources. This is a step towards making the goal a
certainty.
Assess your values, strengths and your passion(s). When you
know these, many decisions are made for you, and others know
you by these. People can count on you for these. Similarly,
when everyone in your company is aligned on a set of core
values, bringing their pool of strengths and their passion
to bear on the work of your business, the world will know
and depend upon your company as a leader. You have insured
your success.
Create a vision for your company (your work, your life) that
is congruent and compelling. Include ALL areas you can think
of. What do you see, five years from now? Ten? Twenty? If
you do not like what you can envision, what DO you want to
be true about the future? Note: material success is only one
aspect of what is important to you!
Notice and focus on the natural priorities. Set the others
aside for now. Notice what demands attention, what will be
most rewarding, what is most easily achieved.
Measure your current goals against your vision, mission and
values. Note, too, what things you (personally) have in
common with your company and your staff. Which of these
naturally support each other and which do not?
Design meaningful new goals, using your
vision, values and mission for guidance. Obviously, your
goals should be written, specific, measurable, dated,
realistic, attainable, tangible, with who and where it is to
happen, can be initiated and maintained by you, stated in
the positive, etc. Be clear about the benefits from
achieving the goal, the cost (in time, effort and money),
and how you will know you have achieved it.
Create a specific and written action plan. Break the actions
down to "baby steps", especially at the beginning of a new
endeavor. Schedule those actions in your appointment
calendar on a daily and weekly basis. Project management
methodology is well documented, and it works... do you use
it?
Deal with your limiting thoughts and behaviors, including
the limitations within your organization. Then create plans
and procedures for coping with external obstacles. If you
are well prepared, flexible and resourceful, external
problems are not likely to stop you!
Identify ALL your potential resources, whether you know how
to access them now or not.
Take actions every day towards those things that are
meaningful to you and your life. Do not let life's ups and
downs distract you (or your company) from your
goals.
Declare your goals only to committed allies first -- those
you can count on to support you rigorously and
unconditionally. Then, as you develop your clarity,
capabilities and strength of purpose, tell
everyone.
Start now, persist, and get uncomfortable!
Put a structure for accountability, support and feedback in
place. (Remember: you are the person who has ultimate
responsibility for your goals, not your employees.) Find a
buddy that will commit to being your partner for your
success, or hire a coach. This person or team is your
anchor, they keep you sharp, effective and pressing forward
towards your goal when you waiver in your focus, clarity and
dedication.
Monitor your progress and the effectiveness of your actions,
and make corrections where needed.
And celebrate every little thing! Human beings respond with
renewed motivation, commitment and brilliance when progress
and success are sincerely appreciated.
Disclaimers
Even seriously considering this reordering of your life (or
business) is almost guaranteed to cause disruption. Change,
by its nature is both disruptive and unavoidable.
Having begun the process, you may find your new "path" very
uncomfortable, and your old life will no longer be
acceptable to you. Employees and others may also resist
change.
Finally, left to their own devices, many people start but do
not follow through on the very things that are most
important to them. You must remember your original
intention, and keep others mindful of the intended outcome
and tasks.
For further thinking on
accomplishing your goals, see "Combine
Heart, Head and Body for
Success". For
additional resources, see other exercises, articles, and
information about Allies Consulting's
programs.
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