{"id":523,"date":"2013-01-11T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2013-01-11T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T15:01:34","slug":"can-you-believe-its-already-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"CAN YOU BELIEVE IT’S ALREADY 2013?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s hard to believe, but not only is 2013 already here, nearly two full weeks are already gone!\u00a0 Do you have goals for the new year; a plan for reaching those goals?\u00a0 If you haven’t already done so, now would be a good time to …<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Write down your goals –<\/strong> Write down what the goal is, what it looks like, how it will feel to achieve it.\u00a0 Be specific.\u00a0 The more specific the goal, the easier it will be to see where you stand as you work toward it and know when you’ve reached it.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tell others what your goals are –<\/strong> This is not about “bragging rights”.\u00a0 Rather, it is about accountability.\u00a0 In the Speakers’ Academy, we have accountability partners; someone who will help us hold ourselves accountable for working toward and ultimately attaining the goals that we have set for ourselves.\u00a0 Your accountability partner can be a single individual or a group of people who support you and want to see you succeed; your personal “board of directors”.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Believe that you can reach your goals –<\/strong> You’ve got to believe in yourself and in your ability to achieve the goals that you have set for yourself.\u00a0 The great W. Clement Stone wrote that, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”<\/em>.\u00a0 When you believe in yourself, really believe<\/em>, your brain has the capacity to focus like a laser on the goal and the actions that must be taken to reach it.\u00a0 Without belief, there can be no focus.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Make the goals measurable –<\/strong> Earlier, I said “be specific”.\u00a0 Specificity makes it easy to measure your progress.\u00a0 A vague goal such as “I’m going to make more sales this year”<\/em> has no real power, no real motivation, and no clearly defined actions that must be taken.\u00a0 A specific goal, “I’m going to increase sales by 10%” leads to specific action steps such as, “To increase sales by 10%, I must make three additional sales presentations every week, which means I must add ten additional qualified prospects to my sales pipeline every week.”<\/em> With these specific action steps, you can measure your progress every day.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Challenge yourself –<\/strong> While it may feel good to reach the same easy goal every year, it’s not possible to grow by pursuing this strategy.\u00a0 A wise man once told me that “when you’re green, you grow … when you’re ripe, you rot”<\/em>.\u00a0 Goals that do not challenge us do not empower us to grow.\u00a0 Many performance reviews are based on a three step model … Base Acceptable Minimum Performance (BAM), Desired Goal, and Stretch Goal.\u00a0 BAM may allow you\u00a0 to keep your job (for now), but it probably puts you #1 on the list of people to cut if the company decides it needs to reduce personnel.\u00a0 Dare to dream … dream big … it’s impossible to soar with the eagles if you’re not willing to reach for the stars.\u00a0 Make your goals big enough to inspire you to strive for greatness; to motivate you to “go the extra mile”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Set a deadline for reaching each of your goals –<\/strong> my first agency manager constantly reminded the new and veteran agents in the office that “goals are simply dreams with deadlines”<\/em>.\u00a0 Without a “due date”, goals are little more than dreams that are seldom achieved.\u00a0 When you commit to reaching the goal by a specific date, you have committed yourself to doing what is needed to reach the goal by that date.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to map out the goals, the destinations, that you want to reach in 2013.\u00a0 The goals you set and the actions that you take to reach them will determine how you see this year when you look back at it from some future date.\u00a0 The future is in your hands.\u00a0 Make it a great one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to believe, but not only is 2013 already here, nearly two full weeks are already gone!\u00a0 Do you have goals for the new year; a plan for reaching those goals?\u00a0 If you haven’t already done so, now would be a good time to … \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Write down your goals – Write down what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31],"tags":[96,89],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goal-setting","category-personal-coaching","tag-goal-setting","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}