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How To Create An Action Plan For Your Goals

April 26, 2018 by Lindsay Teague Moreno Leave a Comment

It’s time to create an action plan for your goals. By now you should have one SMART goal ready to go, but what do you do next?

If you haven’t read my post on setting SMART goals yet, go do that now.

Before we start I want to say, don’t be intimidated if your goal seems like a giant, unattainable task. That’s normal!

Setting goals can feel overwhelming and I think that’s why people who aren’t intentional about action plans don’t achieve theirs.

Not you though. You’re going to learn how to crush your goals!

To make it easier and more achievable, we’re going to break it down and tackle it a little bit at a time.

Let’s take a look at how to create an action plan for your goals:

Write your major goal down in a notebook or my favorite Productivity Pad. You can also use an app like Wunderlist if you prefer digital.
Give yourself a deadline on when the goal needs to be completed by.
Break down the smaller parts of the goal. What needs to happen to achieve it? For example, if you want to write 6 blog posts in May you’ll need to jot down ideas, research the subject, write the copy, edit the copy, make graphics or take photographs, finalize and schedule the posts.
Schedule each task depending on your timeline. What must you do today, tomorrow, and the next day to meet your deadline?
Choose your most important tasks and do them before anything else. Don’t check your phone or your email or Facebook until you finish these.
Check off your smaller tasks and watch them add up to achieving your big goal!

If you do this every time, goal setting should feel easier and more rewarding. You will achieve more goals if you write them down, make an action plan, and refer to it often.

This only works if you do! You have to keep it in front of you every day and work your small tasks in priority.

Once you master this, you’ll be on your way to being a goal crushing machine!

XO,

1 Trick For Defining Your Business Goals

April 25, 2018 by Lindsay Teague Moreno Leave a Comment

Anywhere you look, there’s someone telling you to set goals for you business, but defining them isn’t always easy. Or is it?

What if there was a trick that would help you define and measure your goals, and even motivate you to achieve them?

It’s time to get SMART!

Maybe you’ve heard of setting SMART goals, but haven’t put them into action. Or if you have, it hasn’t been for long enough to make a difference.

Let’s change that. The SMART goals method is your ticket to achieving more.

Here’s a breakdown of what all this means:

S is for SPECIFIC: You need to dial down and spell out exactly what your goal is. For example, one of your goals might be to build up your email list, but that’s not specific. You need to answer the WHO, WHAT, WHY, and WHEN first in order to find out what’s required to achieve this goal. Who are you targeting to get on your email list? What will you do to get them? Why do you want to build the list? When does this need to take place? A specific goal would be that you want to build your email list giving away free PDFs, in order to build a potential customer base for your next product launch.

M is for MEASURABLE: How will you measure building your email list? Maybe you want to increase the overall number by 20% in the next 3 months. This is pretty easy to set once you’ve got a specific goal.

A is for ATTAINABLE: So now you know you want a 20% increase in your email list in the next 3 months. Is that attainable for you? Take a minute to compare this goal to your previous performance and see if you need to scale it back a little. You might even need to increase it. The point is that we want to achieve these goals so stretch, but don’t reach so far that you’ll never achieve it in that set time.

R is for RELEVANT: Let’s say want to build up your email list, but you don’t even have a website yet. Would this goal move your business further or do you need to work on the website first? Make sure your goal is relevant to your growth right now.

T is for TIME BOUND: This is one of the most important parts so listen up! You must give yourself a deadline on this goal. Give yourself a due date and stick to it!

Seems doable, right? You can totally do this!

The next step is to set up an action plan – stay tuned for that post.

XO,

Creating Your Good Life + A Free Goal-Setting Guide

July 6, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 10 Comments

My mother and Jim Rohn are two of the human beings that had a profound and real impact on my life in my early twenties (when I knew everything already…duh). They taught me how to live a good life. Did you know there’s a secret to living the good life? This week I recorded a podcast called Creating Your Good Life that is dedicated to my mama. Happy would-be 60th to her. In the podcast I talk about how setting goals in 6 focus areas can help you achieve the dreams you have not only for your business, but for your whole life. (You can listen to it here: BossUp! Podcast.)

You’ve been told 4,871 times that it’s important to write your goals down, but you’re still not doing it. Maybe you’ve tried and were really good about it for a few months, but got out of the habit. I get you. It’s easy to do. Here’s the thing – you need to be writing down your goals if you want to be successful. Seriously.

What if I told that you people who write down their goals are TEN TIMES more likely to get what they want than those who don’t? It’s true. And I’m not just talking about business either. This applies to your whole life: Personal, Spiritual, Financial, Health, Business, and Relationships. BOOM.

I created The Good Life Mini Guide to walk you through these 6 areas of goal-setting.

You’ll start by writing down your biggest, most wild and scary goals for each focus area.
Next you’re going to break it down by creating two step goals for each big goal.
And last comes the real work. It’s time to break your step goals into action steps which are the activities that keep you on track and moving toward that big goal.

You can get started right now by downloading and printing it here: The Good Life Mini Guide!

Still not convinced you need to be writing down your goals? Ok, let me drop some science on you!
A Harvard Business study found that:

83% of the population does not have goals
14% have a plan in mind, but are unwritten goals
3% have goals written down

The 14% who have goals are TEN TIMES more successful than those without goals. Even better, the 3% who took the time write down their goals are THREE TIMES more successful than the 14% with unwritten goals even. The reality is that most people are not writing down exactly what they want and because of that they aren’t living The Good Life. If you want to be in that 3%, download and print The Good Life Mini Guide and start now!

The Good Life Mini Guide

I hope that having a guide will make it more do-able for you. I have been going through this guide myself with some of my team and I have to say it’s a lot of fun. I’m dreaming big, but I’m also putting it into perspective by breaking everything down into manageable chunks.