The yellow legal pad solution to goal setting
I’m a big believer in yellow legal pads. I have scads of them around my house for jotting ideas and doing mind maps and the like. John Goddard became the world’s #1 Goal Achiever starting with a legal pad, so its use is not such a bad idea.
During this time of reflection on the year just passed and in anticipation of the year to come, here are five probing questions you should commit some serious effort to while recording the responses on a trusty legal pad.
1) What do I really enjoy doing? What seems almost effortless to me?
2) How can I monetize it (create income from it)? Don’t automatically assume you can’t make any money from it. That’s probably just an old paradigm raising its ugly head. Elaine Hodgson loved to play video games and found herself increasingly drawn to the idea of creating them. Her company, Incredible Technologies, now has $60 million in sales.
3) What are five things I can do this week to determine the feasibility of #2?
4) Who can I get to help me?
5) What is my deadline to “fish or cut bait?”
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January 20th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Two years ago the seed was plantet. I started on my journey to live an authentic life and attended a coaching training in Sweden and - to make a long story short - I signed for the Gold Champions Club 2007. I have decided to make a living on what I love to do effortless and I started to believe in it after listening to Proctor’s, Rohn’s, Johnson’s and other great speakers’ audios. (And some mental training from listening to an affirmation mp3 every day).
The break through of hard and fun work came last 8 days. I adopted the idea of a winning concept - talking to other coaches … one making good money, one waiting for “cashing the cheque” and one - I think - in between. I listened to the ideas of the good-money-coach and listened to what could work for me. What would meet my values. Yesterday I switched my coaching program from the “old one” to the “good-money-meet-my-values”-program in the middle of the coaching session. It felt great!
Still I have a deadline for “fish and cut bait”. I have this for a reason. I get challenged and my husband has promised to support me until this date. So the deadline has worked as an ice breaker for our communication.
The 4 questions above have worked for me. The only question I use differently is that I (almost) every day write down 5 steps/activities I can make to come closer to my goal(s).
What works for you? Or what doesn’t?
Take care! Greetings from Sweden.