How To Smash Every Goal You Set
I love making lists, goals lists, tasks lists, shopping lists, to do lists, sometimes I just stare at an empty notebook page waiting for the list to come to me. But today we’re talking goals and how to break them down into bite-sized actions so that you can actually achieve them.
Ok so let me tell you how I break down huge goals. First I start off with a yearly goals list, everything I want to accomplish in one year. I typically write this down in a notebook because I love any reason to buy one or write in one. If you’re not a notebook enthusiast, feel free to use your laptop, just be sure to keep the file in an easy to find place like on your desktop, somewhere you will see it regularly.
For this next part I do actually use my laptop, but just temporarily and I use it because I have to write fast as the ideas start flowing. So I take each goal that I have on my yearly list and I write them on a new word doc and under each goal I write out all the physical action steps I am currently aware of that I could take to get closer to the goal. Now keep in mind there are an unlimited amount of ways to do, be or have any particular thing. But when we take an action toward a goal, the energy behind our intention helps push us in the right direction, and then the universe of course takes us the rest of the way.
So I write down everything that I’m aware that I could do to help me reach my goal, and when I do this it kind of takes the confusion out of that age old question “but like where do i even start?” It also eases some of the anxiety and overwhelm that you can sometimes feel when you have a really big goal you want to hit and have no idea when or how you could ever possibly get there.
The reason I break down my goals this way is because it shows that there are plenty of things you can do in preparation for the goal itself even if you can’t get to the goal itself today.
After that list is created, I go back to my notebook and I make a monthly goals list, i run a full time service based business so I make one list for my business goals and then one list for my personal goals. On the business goals side I typically add goals that include my sales forecast. A sales forecast is literally just that: a forecast of what you intend to sell within a given time frame. I create a yearly forecast broken into months. If you want to know more about how to create a service-based sales forecast, comment down below and I will create a tutorial just for you.
In my personal goals side, I usually have things I’d like to experience such as “add x amount to my savings account” or idk “drink more water”
Once my 2 monthly goals lists have been created, I then create 4 weekly task lists and I use one list per week every month to keep track of my day-to-day tasks as well as how I’m coming along with my monthly goal. I refer to my weekly task list daily so I like to use a notebook with rings just so that I can keep it open to the right date and so that’s it’s kind of always in my face. My weekly task list makes it super easy to take one small action a day that moves me closer to one of my big, huge goals.
In my notebook, I repeat this every month, 2 monthly goals list, 4 weekly task lists. Halfway through the year, I create an updated yearly goals list just in case something has changed, which is totally fine by the way. You don’t have to keep wanting something just because you wanted it in the past, you can change your mind at anytime.
Goals are fun, especially when you are smashing them out of the park but I don’t want you to think that you have to attempt to accomplish like 20 things all at once. The best part about goal setting is the journey, so have fun with it. When my yearly list of goals is particularly long, I like to divide them into 2 buckets: goals that I can definitely focus on right now and goals that are more so by products of hitting other goals. For example: a goal to bring in $20,000 in monthly sales is one that requires focus but a goal to move into a new apartment, that’s more of a by product of some other goal, so for me personally, I would spent more of my time focusing on making sales and a new apartment would chill on my vision board as a reminder of what I’m working towards.
Now of course goal smashing not only requires a few resources here and there but I also requires a whole lotta confidence, for which I have a perfectly curated cocktail for.
Um…you totally got this!
Kelley Raye | Branding Photographer + Creative Business Coach | Atlanta - Los Angeles