It is the time of year now, where you start thinking about
goals. You start to reflect (or you will
in a few weeks) on what you’ve accomplished & what you’d like to see happen
in 2016.
I love goals, especially goal setting and goal
planning. It is one of my most nerdy
things!
As I start to dive into how I will set my goals for next
year, I plan to reflect on the goals of 2015.
I’ll be writing a few blogs on this topic and one of the future blogs
will dive into setting up for success in 2016.
At the beginning of this year, Jackson & I set down to set out goals of the
year together (Yes, we are really that nerdy).
We tracked them in OneNote in a shared notebook so we could both see
them. This made me feel incredibly
vulnerable. Prior to this, I kept my
goals kind of a secret! Something only
for me. I know there is tons of research
about sharing your goals with friends and family and putting them on social
media (so you have accountability right there!), but I have never felt comfortable
with that. This was a little hard for
me, but really was so impactful. If you
want someone to support all of your goals (& vice versa) they really need
to know what they are! That sounds so
simple, but sometimes it is overlooked.
So for 2015, I decided to make 100 goals. Yes, 100!
I read an article by Scottthe Nametag guy and I decided to give it a try. His point was that making 100 goals is huge
and you have to go in thinking you will not make all of them, but dreaming
about what is possible.
If this is interesting to you, try it! I came up with 80 goals in like 20
minutes! The last 20 I really had to think
about, but it was a fun exercise.
I broke my goals down into:
- Personal Goals: 61
- Finance Goals: 12
- Work Goals: 9
- Health: 18
Out of my 100 goals, I gave myself a success or completion
on 57. That is not too bad! I had to "get there" about this a success b/c in my
school/student driven mind, I needed to be at 85%+ to be a success. I really did get a lot of great things done
this year & I think I laid the foundation on a few things so 2016 can be
set up for a success as well!
Personal Goals:
Overall success rate: 38/61 (63%)
In this bucket I had everything from maintain better contact
with family and friends to buy a house to go on dates with Jackson to read more
books to donate to charities. I really
could have segmented this more, but it worked all lumped in. So I knocked a lot out on this list and some
of them were huge (like buying a house)!
Finance Goals:
9/12 (75%)
This was a key goal for us to keep in front of us as we did
get a home and are saving for a wedding.
I think we did well here with the strategies we laid out. One of my favorite things I did this year for
finance is reading the Tony Robbins book.
It is a monster! And it had great
insights. I’d like to revisit this book
(maybe after the wedding!) to implement a few of his strategies that I really
liked!
Work Goals: 6/9 (67%)
I had a few things here that were important to me and the
primary one just came through in November.
I transferred over to a new group at work. I was really looking forward to this so I
could get something new to dig my teeth into.
This was definitely a big win for the year.
Health Goals:
6/18 (33%)
This was my weakest area of success this year. To be honest, this one is a little
frustrating to me. I do not think it was
for lack of focus! I have been thinking
about my health more this year. I think
during the year I did really well on certain things, but I was not able to
string them all together. I had a ton of
goals that were year-long. Like exercise
175+ days this year, drink 80 oz of water 5 days a week etc. I honestly didn’t even track these things
after the first few months. So this is
an area I am going to give a lot of thought to before I sent my goals for the
next year.
Even if you didn’t set goals for 2015, you can still reflect
on the year to think about how you want to set up 2016! Email me here and I’ll send
you a sheet to help you evaluate the year.
Happy 2015 Reflection!
Life in the Green Room
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