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Change is always tough, especially when there’s so many changes all at once.
This week leading up to the close of 2011 I will need to buckle down and really define what I plan to accomplish in 2012. It’s always been tough for me to write out goals or a game plan. I have tried doing it countless times in the past, but I was recently at a networking event where the guest speaker made the process of setting up my path for change extremely easy.
Craig Zuber was the guest speaker and he calls his simple plan the 1 – 3 – 5 method.
- (1) List one business objective you want to accomplish for 2012. Make it big and specific so it can be measured.
- (3) Create three goals that will help you accomplish your objective.
- (5) Create 5 steps to attain each goal
I think the reasons all my prior goal setting activities have failed comes down to complexity. Every time I sat down to write out a plan, it was always too complicated. I often found myself writing goals to complete my goals or plan.
Something Craig said in that meeting that hit me as if he was speaking directly to me was … (paraphrasing) Are you happy with where you’re at right now (professionally) and if you’re not, what are you doing to change that. It’s something I have heard so many times before, that I am responsible for where I am right now. It’s based on the choices I have made. Something was different with the way he spoke, I can’t really explain it, but for some reason I felt a very strong urging that 2012 was going to be a BIG year for me but it wouldn’t include working for someone else. The remainder of Craig’s speech only continued to strengthen this feeling.
To explain things a little better … Sara and I had already been discussing whether or not my current job was where I should be or not. I was having to make a very difficult decision so the message Craig Zuber had couldn’t have been timed any better.
As I say goodbye to 2011, I look forward to the changes and challenges waiting for me in 2012.
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