I love this part of the year. Spring is on the way and with it comes a fresh outlook and spring planning. Planning is such a rewarding process – in negotiation, in business, and in life.
For me, the year really comes alive when I prepare new goals/desires/intentions for the coming year, do some assessing, look at what worked out last year, what didn’t, and why…
Every year, more of the goals I set for myself come to fruition – and these are big, juicy goals! Last year I got 83% accuracy on 25 pages worth of personal intentions and goals (that number may end up being 87% – I’ll keep you posted). This year I’m aiming for 100+%.
Not just that, I often jot down little goals and sometimes stumble upon them long after the fact. I am always amazed that I have yet to pick one up that did not work out as per my intention – or better!
Sometimes I feel a little silly taking the time to do this, despite the obvious reasons to do so. It can be a time consuming process and it would be easy to try to slap it together in one day, like I used to in the beginning. These days I am getting much much better results from my efforts…
Many people I know do this for their businesses and stop there. Not me! Sure, I update the business plan – but I also plan the rest of life too. This may seem tediously “type A” to most people. However, once the plan is built in a way that is compelling and fun to read, life takes on a new dimension. Things begin to flow and “happy coincidences” become the norm.
Planning actually lifts a certain degree of stress off of me during the rest of the year. The more I plan in this first month, the better things go over the course of the year.
This is old-school stuff that really works – in business and in life. You can achieve more with less effort when you write down your goals. If you Google “Why write down your goals” you will get roughly 11,000,000 hits! But how many people ever do it?
I discovered a long time ago that even if I only wrote down my goals once, the chances of them manifesting in my life were much greater. Over the years I have found many ways to “beef up” the process and get far more out of it.
This year I am taking a little bit of extra time to thoroughly document this process so that I can share it with you. Stay tuned!
Nancy