Put Your Heart Into Your Goals This February

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 22, 2009 -- February is a season of love and romance, when we reaffirm our hearts to the ones we love. It's also one of the best times of year to put your heart into your goals and objectives, and make them personal. The spill-over activities to close off last year have been dealt with. The rah rah, and motivational speeches from on high to kick off the new year are done. Business forecasts are taking shape, and you've got a small window of breathing room before the first quarter numbers are due.

There are two schools of thought on the matter, and one is much more productive than the other. One set of reasoning says that the best approach is to remain flexible and adaptive to each day. See what comes, and deal with each situation as efficiently as you can. This can work for a while if you are in an environment that never has carry over from the previous day. Most of us don’t have that luxury, and what ultimately ends up happening is that we take on too many things to do any more than the minimum requirements for each. The best case end result is that a lot of people will think you are generally reliable, in a mediocre kind of way. You can be counted on get things done, but no one will ever expect anything particularly special from you.

The other, far more effective approach is to sit down just after the beginning of the year, and map out the things you want to accomplish most this year. The general approach is to brainstorm everything you'd like to accomplish this year first, and then prioritize and choose your top 5 or 10. Some people like to call the accomplishments wish list a dream board. I like that name. The important thing is that you make this list personal. It must relate to the problems or opportunities of the business, but the things you choose must also be things that you believe in. You need to care enough about your chosen goals enough to put your heart and mind into them for the next 11 months.

I had made it very personal and I knew in my heart that these were the right things to do. At the end of the year, guess how many of those 10 things I had accomplished? If you guessed 8 or 9 you are incorrect. I got none of them done; zero. They had all made progress, but none of them were making a significant difference to the organization. I learned a
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