Write down all the things you want, to do be or have.

Write in one brief sentence why you want to be, do or have each item on your list.  If you can’t answer it, put it on another sheet.

Decide the most import areas of your life i.e.

• Family/friends
• Partner/significant other
• Career/work
• Financial
• Health and Vitality
• Emotional well-being
• Social life
• Fun and recreation
• Physical environment (where you are living, how you are living, surroundings)
• Spiritual life

Add change or delete to include all the areas of life that are important to you. Define what success means to you in each of the life areas you have identified.

Take each of your goals in turn and ask the question “will having, being or doing this thing improve the areas of my life that I deem are important?’ Give one mark for each yes answer.

For each of your goals, ask if it is right and fair to everyone In your sphere of influence and concern and if it will take you close to your overall objective.

Put your goals in order.  Take your top 10 goals. These are the ones you are going to work on.

Are you happy with these, if not why not?

Divide your goals into 4 main groups:

• Ongoing goals and needing daily input
• Short-term goals go achieve within a week to a month
• Medium-term goals that may take between a month and a year
• Long term goals that may take longer than a year.

For each of the goals on the list, expand your why.  Explain to yourself fully why you want to have this goal and what it will mean to you.  Write this down.

Take each goal in turn and make 2 to do lists for each to show:

• What you are prepared to do to achieve it
• What you will need to do to achieve it

Make a list of:-

• The people you need to work with or
• The people who can help you
• The skills you might need to develop
• The actions you need to take
• What you need to learn
• What you need to understand

Do the rocking chair test.  Take yourself into the future at age 95. Imagine the wonderful life you have designed for yourself.  Visualise it. Fully associate with it.

Write down the story of your incredible life, the amazing things you’ve done, fantastic things you’ve seen, the people you have touched and the changes you have made in your own life.

Place your goals with their action points, within a time-frame.  Put a start and finish date on them.

Remember - a goal is a dream with a date.

Denise Vogel Life Coach