3 Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Get Started on Goal Setting

Every day, in talking with people about the topic of goal setting, I hear “I don’t know where to start with setting goals.” If you’re not currently a goal setter, you likely know you should be. Setting goals and implementing a plan to achieve them is really the only way to live the life you want to live. I find using a goal setting system – one in which you can create your plan and then constantly track your plan – to be the most effective.  Once you’ve set your goals for your life or business (a bit of work in and of itself)  implementing the plan is something you have to work on every day… which is probably why most people don’t do it.

If you’d like to get started on setting goals, but you’re not yet ready to create a complete life plan or business plan, why not at least just dip your toe into goal setting waters?  Here are three questions you can ask yourself, the answers to which will give you at least one very important goal on which you can get to work:

If there were one thing in your life you could change, what would it be?

If there were a year in your life that you could get back and change, what year would it be and what would you want to change?

Take an objective look at yourself and your life or business. (Pretend it’s you looking at someone else.) What’s one thing you should change?

These may feel like heavy questions, but I’ll bet you know the answers. Write down your answers to these questions and then choose one of those answers and create a goal out of it.  Just one. 

It’s a place to begin… a place to get started on goal setting.