2022 is almost over,
and you're hoping that unlike 2022, in 2023,
you actually achieve your goals.
And you may be wondering,
what is it that you can do different this time around
so you achieve those goals that you truly desire
so that you get to live that dream life
that you always wanted,
you get to fulfill all those ambitions
that you've always wanted to fulfill.
So in the previous video I shared with you
the first step to really setting yourself up to win
is to express gratitude
and kind of sit with what happened in 2022
as to what went right, what went wrong,
what worked out, what didn't work out, as well.
Once you've done that, I also encouraged you
to look at your intentions before you look at your goals,
to really lean into how is it that you wanna live your life?
What is that is important to you?
What is it that you wanna create?
And lastly, I invited you to look at your goals
as not just as one number, but as something that you set
as minimum target and outrageous.
Now, I wanna take it one step further,
and I wanna invite you to other parameters
that will help you define better goals
and define ways to achieve these goals.
Below this video, I will also give you an opportunity
to download a beautiful planner
that you can use for the next year.
But before we get into that,
I wanna share with you the AWESOME goal-setting model.
You see, after doing a lot of goal-setting work,
after achieving a lot of goals
and not achieving a lot of goals,
I realized that if you wanna achieve your goals,
there's certain parameters that it must fulfill.
These parameters also allow you to set goals
that actually would be realized
because these parameters itself give you a direction
and a way to think about these goals a lot more effectively.
A stands for ambition.
You see, a lot of the times,
goal-setting or people who tell you to set goals
tell you to be realistic about goals.
What I found is realistic goals don't really inspire us.
We don't feel motivated by them.
We don't feel driven by them.
But else, if your goals are a little bit more ambitious,
they push you a little bit in the direction
where you're slightly uncomfortable.
It tends to create a lot more drive.
You seem to feel a lot more fuel and empowerment
because you're chasing something
that is a little bit difficult.
One of the reasons why we get uninspired in our lives
is because we are doing repetitive work,
we are doing things that are easy, that are comfortable,
and that's exactly why you don't wanna have realistic goals.
You want your goals to be a little bit ambitious.
You want your goals to be a little bit more
than what you realistically can expect to achieve.
The second letter, W, stands for why.
Every goal has a hidden why behind it.
There is a reason why you wanna chase that career,
there's a reason why you want to have that relationship,
there's a reason why you wanna feel
a particular way every single day.
If you're clear on that why,
you suddenly unlock so much fuel in your soul,
that your chase becomes way easier,
that you're suddenly significantly more driven
than you would be otherwise
if you didn't know what your why was.
So be very curious as to why is it
that you want a particular goal to be fulfilled?
Why is it that you really are driven
to achieve something very particular in your life?
Because this why may be the fuel that you need
to finally achieve your goals.
Which brings me to E, which stands for executable.
Executable brings a little bit reality
to this ambitious goal.
Executable means can this goal be executed
in the timeline that you're hoping for it to get executed?
A lot of times we bound ourselves to a timeline
that may seem the most obvious one.
Like for example, if you're doing this exercise
at the end of year 2022, you may think
that the best timeline to achieve the goal
that you've set yourself up for is by end of 2023.
But not all goals can be managed or considered that easily.
A lot of the goals that you will be pursuing in your life
actually need more time,
and so you wanna be mindful of whatever goal you're setting
that it is executable in the timeline
that you're proposing for it to get executed in.
And that brings me to S,
and that stands for specific.
Specific.
Anything that is specific around us,
we tend to remember it more easily,
and that is why being specific about your goals is so vital.
As you are more specific, if these are numbers,
if they're specific things that you're doing,
if there's specific dates that you're doing things at,
you tend to orient much better to achieve these goals.
So you wanna find a certain level
of specificity to your goals.
You wanna define it as specifically as possible
because your mind, your brain,
is going to be able to orient itself better for that goal.
That brings me to the next letter, which is O,
which stands for objective.
Being objective about your goals simply means
that you're clear about what are the steps
that need to be taken for that goal to be achieved.
You see, a lot of the times,
you would set big, ambitious, hairy audacious goals,
and you would have no idea how to go from here to there.
While that is okay to do if this was a life goal
or this is a four or five year goal,
if you're doing a year long goal-setting,
you wanna be able to somewhat say
as to what would be potential some next steps
so you can create progress towards the goal that you have.
12 months isn't a very long timeline.
We overestimate a lot of the times
what we can do in 12 months,
and we underestimate what we can do in three years.
So, if you set yourself up for a year-long goal,
make sure you know what steps could be executed
for that goal to actually be realized.
And that brings me to M, which is for measurable.
Measurable simply means as you're pursuing
this beautiful goal that you've set for yourself,
are there any daily measures that you could track
that would help you to understand if you're making progress?
Most of the time, people quit their goals
because they feel they're making no progress
towards the outcome of the goals.
Most of the time we start chasing a goal,
like for example, losing weight,
but because we don't measure it every single week,
because we have no way to measure it every single week,
we lose track in the first two or three months,
and because we haven't really seen progress,
we think there was no progress made.
That is why it's so important
that you measure your progress.
And that brings me to the final letter.
That is E, and that stands for expiration date.
If you do not have an expiration date
or an end date to your goal, often you would find yourself
in a situation where you may start the journey,
but because there is no exploration date,
you may slow down as the journey is moving on,
as you're creating progress towards that outcome
that you've always wanted.
But because there is no final date,
you may find yourself not actually pursuing that goal,
that ambition as aggressively,
because there is no final date
when this project is supposed to be complete.
And that really could be a challenging situation
when you truly desire your goals to be complete.
That is an AWESOME goal-setting model.
You want to see if your goals align with these variables,
and you wanna see that your goals
kind of fit into the criteria.
The reason why it's so important to fit into this criteria
is because this criteria gives some level of certainty
that you will have the outcome that you desire,
that you will be able to track and measure
your progress towards this goal.
You will be able to really see
when you're not in alignment with the goal,
when you're not achieving the goal
that you had set yourself up for.
Once you've set your goal, it's important and vital
for you to break it down into small chunks.
You see, when we have big, hairy audacious goals
for the end of the year,
and we don't have month-by-month, week-by week-plan for it,
you may find that you started the progress,
January is gonna be awesome,
maybe February will be great too,
but somewhere along the way, because you didn't have a plan,
because you didn't put together a plan,
because you didn't foresee what's gonna happen next,
you'll find life will get in the way
and you will find it harder and harder every single day
to continue to pursue the direction
that you've set yourself up for.
Most of the time, we give up on goals,
not because we don't want the outcomes
that we've set ourselves up for.
We give up on goals because we lose traction,
we lose motivation, we lose drive
in the middle of us creating that progress
because we don't track the progress that we have gotten
or we don't see the success early enough
and we get frustrated and disappointed in ourselves,
and so we just give up on our goals.
But if we would measure our goals
against the AWESOME goal model, we would make a plan.
You will find it's a lot more likely
that you will actually continue to pursue your goal
beyond what you usually do and also get results
because you're actually pursuing your goals
over a long period of time.
A way to plan your goals and to really map your goals
is to get something like this.
This is a planner that I bought from a stationary shop.
Now, you could use a physical planner like I've gotten,
or you could use a digital planner,
like a Google Sheet or an Excel sheet,
and just mark days and months and just start to write down
as to what would you do every month.
What would be your priority every month?
And once you write what your priorities every month,
then what is it that you're gonna do in week one,
week two, week three, week four?
How are you gonna measure your progress?
How are you gonna celebrate your progress?
What are the things that you're going to do
that will keep moving you forward?
The more you find ways to stay consistent,
the more you find ways to create accountability
for yourself, you'll find easier it is
for you to really truly achieve your goals.
Now, I wanna give you a last approach,
a last simple acronym to remember
so you know what is the foundation
of really achieving your goals?
And I want you to remember this acronym as HAAM, H-A-A-M.
H here stands for habits.
What are the habits that you need to bring into your life
that will be congruent to the goals
that you have in the coming year
so you can keep pursuing your goals in the coming year?
A is for accountability.
How is it that you can create internal accountability
or external accountability that allows you
to stay present to your goals,
to stay consistent to your goals,
to continue to pursue your goals?
The second A is for achievements and rewards.
How is it that you are going to celebrate yourself,
celebrate your progress, celebrate your success,
celebrate movement towards these amazing goals
that you have set yourself up for?
And M stands for motivation triggers.
This means when you are down,
when it feels like you're not moving forward,
when feels like you're not gonna achieve your goals,
what is it that you can do
to trigger motivation back in your life?
How is it that you can inspire yourself again
to continue to take action?
What is it that you can do
so you can stay motivated towards progress?
You see, motivation is a fickle thing.
You are motivated in the moment
and then you're not motivated another moment.
But when you set up your life as a motivated, inspired life,
you don't lose motivation because there's always something
that you're doing consistently
that keeps you in that elevated state.
How do you find this model
of planning your business and your life?
Share with me in the comment section below.
Also, don't forget, we have a free planner for you.
If you click on the link below, you can download it.
It was a pleasure talking to you today.
Have fun planning and I'll see you soon.