Goals – Not Just for the New Year!
Goals. They aren't just for New Years' resolutions that inevitably get dropped, ignored, or forgotten. What's stopping us from setting goals for ourselves year-round? Nothing! So let's end 2016 on a good note, shall we?? :)
Goals are especially important for us to be fully engaged in our work – because we need to know and feel like we are growing in order to stay invested.
The best way to do this is to set a work goal and then delineate and take small steps to achieve it! Here are four tips for setting an achievable goal and staying accountable:
Make sure your goal is really important to you; the more you care about it, the more likely you are to put in the work needed to reach it!
Make sure your goal is something that you have control over – it wouldn’t make sense to set a goal that someone or something else could stop you from reaching.
State each goal in a positive and specific way, i.e., “Take 5-minute breaks each hour,” rather than “Get rid of unhealthy work habits.”
Break up your goal into a series of small steps and tie each one to a timeline!
Now go make your goal a reality!