If you are doing too much, goal setting can help you prioritize.
If you are competent, you are busy. Sometimes too busy. People are always asking you to help out and take on a bit more work. So in addition to your work, your family and the upkeep of the house, you also have volunteering and hobbies and well, life.
I am also an entrepreneur. There are all sorts of things I could and should be doing to support my business, but the reality is, I have time constraints. I can’t do everything.
Yet, I don’t feel overwhelmed. My secret? I understand my goals so that I can prioritize.
Knowing what you want to accomplish, and more importantly why you want to accomplish helps you sort through the day to day demands and prioritize those that are critical, that that need to be done and those that would be nice to do.
Lots of people have a to do list. What they have trouble with is deciding which stuff can wait. In order to prioritize your to-do list, you have to know why those items are on your list in the first place.
We have primary goals and secondary goals and then intermediary goals that help us achieve our secondary and primary goals. My primary goal is to live life fully and to leave the world a better place. All my secondary goals, like create a business to help people learn how to stop bullies are in support of my primary goal. My intermediate goals, like call on companies to talk to them about buying my sexual harassment trainings, are intermediate goals, designed to help me achieve my secondary goal which will help me achieve my primary goal of making the world a better place.
The reason it’s important to have a goal hierarchy is because you can’t prioritize your to-do list if your goals your to-do list are in support of aren’t prioritized! When I am in a time crunch, I look at my to do list and it’s very easy to sort into must do and can wait. Why? Because I have my priorities straight.
To learn more how to do this – take my ecourse: Planning for Personal Success at: https://humanistlearning.com/planforpersonalsuccess/
I am also an entrepreneur. There are all sorts of things I could and should be doing to support my business, but the reality is, I have time constraints. I can’t do everything.
Yet, I don’t feel overwhelmed. My secret? I understand my goals so that I can prioritize.
Knowing what you want to accomplish, and more importantly why you want to accomplish helps you sort through the day to day demands and prioritize those that are critical, that that need to be done and those that would be nice to do.
Lots of people have a to do list. What they have trouble with is deciding which stuff can wait. In order to prioritize your to-do list, you have to know why those items are on your list in the first place.
We have primary goals and secondary goals and then intermediary goals that help us achieve our secondary and primary goals. My primary goal is to live life fully and to leave the world a better place. All my secondary goals, like create a business to help people learn how to stop bullies are in support of my primary goal. My intermediate goals, like call on companies to talk to them about buying my sexual harassment trainings, are intermediate goals, designed to help me achieve my secondary goal which will help me achieve my primary goal of making the world a better place.
The reason it’s important to have a goal hierarchy is because you can’t prioritize your to-do list if your goals your to-do list are in support of aren’t prioritized! When I am in a time crunch, I look at my to do list and it’s very easy to sort into must do and can wait. Why? Because I have my priorities straight.
To learn more how to do this – take my ecourse: Planning for Personal Success at: https://humanistlearning.com/planforpersonalsuccess/
This is so true, Jennifer! I find myself with 3 lists: Today's to do. A weekly priority. And a when-I-get-to-it list. As imagined, the third one stays fairly stagnant! But as long as the first two include my main goal, I'm good :)
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