10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 7 - Timeline of Events

10 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GOAL SETTING - PART 7

Timeline of Events

Have a time line of events that need to take place in sequence, so you can tell if you are on track.

Work backwards, figure out the major steps to achieving your goal.

We call this 'salami slicing' your goals.

Take your big and scary goal, and break it down into smaller achievable goals.

e.g. Losing 25Kg might seem like a massive, almost impossible task, but can you lose 0.5Kg in a week? Much easier to visualise losing half a kilo a week, and in a year, there is your 25Kg gone, and you now have the body shape and size you desire.

So how will you break it down? Will it be dress sizes that you will visulise? If size 10 is your goal, then perhaps the previous goal to that, working backwards, would be a size 12. Work backwards till you get to your current weight and size.

It doesn't take a math wizard to work out steps along the way to your financial goal. You don't go from 0 to a million in one step (otherwise you would have already done it!). Maybe $500K is the next goal on the reverse timeline, then $250K, then $100K, then $50K, etc. all the way back to your first goal of $100 or $1000.

With relationships, your goal might be marriage. The previous step engagement, the step before that meeting the parents, all the way back to getting a haircut, then getting out of the door to meet people.

You get the picture.

Now get a big, bright, image of each of the steps, along the pathway to your success.

To your success,
Trevor Long