Effective goal setting, as part of my annual and quarterly planning process has been the biggest contributor to my success over the last two years. It has resulted in me having significant growth and progress in all areas of life - my career, finances, family and social relationships, personal development and my life purpose.

If you want to live the life of your dreams, then you need to be intentional. Anyone who has achieved anything worthwhile in life has been focused on what they want, and actively worked to achieve it.

That starts with being clear on what success looks like. And that’s not just your career, or money. It should include personal, family and social relationships, how we grow mentally and spiritually, and our physical and mental wellbeing.

For the last two years I have spent New Years Day, and a few days following, doing annual planning and goal setting with my partner. The result is 8-10 goals for the next 12-36 months. We then choose 2-3 goals to focus on for the next 3 months, and this forms the basis of our weekly and daily goal setting. We then revisit our goals every 3 months, and reset for the following quarter.

Prior to that I’ve had some years with no goals at all, and finished the year feeling a little flat and unfulfilled. A year had passed, and I felt like I had not progressed.

Other years I set goals however they were skewed towards university, and ignored all the other areas of life. I achieved the university grades I wanted but my physical and mental health suffered, and wasted time in toxic relationships that did not serve me.

It’s easy to do. Life is busy, and we all get caught in the minutiae of day to day life, and we don’t take the time to consider what we want from life.

I’ve had many people ask me how I have achieved so much in the last few years, so I wanted to share what I’ve learned around effective goal setting in this episode of The Females in Tech Show.

What we cover:

• How Joel and I start our New Year (7:08)
• How to set SMART goals, and how to break your annual goals into quarterly and weekly goals (12:53)
• How to align your goals with your partner (20:23)
• I share an example of an annual goal we had last year, and how we broke it down into quarterly and weekly goals (27:33)
• Outline of our current goal setting process, and how long it takes to complete each step (30:42)
• I share the tools we use, and provide details on how you can access the FIIT Collective Daily Goals Planner (35:09)

Resources

• Michael Hyatt Best Year Ever
• Gabby Bernstein Manifesting Challenge
• Brendon Burchard High Performance Planner
• Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt
• Officeworks Weekly Planner Whiteboard
• Officeworks A3 Monthly Goals Desk Planner
• FIIT Collective Daily Goal Planner

Thank you

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