Simon’s Success Strategies 2005
Defining Your 90 Day Goals

The third step is Goals - Defining your 90 goals and turning your vision into a set of practical and measurable goals.

To say this another way, focus on the first three months of this year with your goals, narrow the time span to 90 days.  The purpose is to;

• Make your vision more attainable by making it a little more short term
• Enable you to see and feel the rewards in the short term
• Define a few steps that it will take to create it versus getting overwhelmed with the perfect plan
• Focus on the short term
• Take action now

Remember to focus in on the following areas;

Family
Intellectual
Physical
Social
Spiritual
Travel

Business/Career
Financial

Personal Environment; Auto, Clothing, Home, Technology, Toys - if you must.

Try to be balanced in all the areas as opposed to be too focused on any one given area.

Try to follow your gut and your feelings, and set goals in each category based upon what you sense and what feel is right for you now.  This is not about getting an equal number of goals per category.  And in the next 90 days, you may not have a goal for each category – that is OK.

Remember this is a personal experience and I recommend doing this on your own.

Using the attached Goals Setting Worksheet;

What are your goals that you most want to set for yourself in the next 90 days?  Please select those goals that you really want, not ones you should, could, ought to or might want.  Give some serious thought to setting both your personal and business goals and share them with your coach.  When you have set the right goals for yourself, you should feel excited, a little nervous, ready and willing to go for it!

Don’t choose the goals you have historically chosen, but never reached, unless you’re in a much better position to reach them now.

Remember the “SMART” Goal setting strategy;

S – Specific
M – Measurable
A - Action-Oriented
R – Realistic
T - Time-focused,

The 90 day goal setting has been the most valuable goal setting tool that my coach has shared with me.

I implemented the 90 days goal setting for the first time last October and I completed more in that 90 days than any 90 days in history.  I literally reinvented myself by defining our niche and niche marketing, we not only published one web site and e-newsletter, we published two, we updated our computer systems for 2005, we created the opportunity for the TV spots on BCTV News on Global and completed a 3 year business and marketing plan.  Best of all our clients are all achieving and exceeding their goals.

One very important message that I want to share with you is that the most important thing about using the 90 day goal setting is to first “get”, develop the habit of just doing it.  Get accustomed to setting 90 day goals the 1^st of every January, April, July and October and this will set you on a consistent path of attracting and creating what you want.

Keep in mind that you may not reach all the goals that you set the first time around.  The key point is that you set them and that you take action steps towards reaching them.

Remember to be kind to yourself and remain flexible.

At the end of 90 days and along the way, remember the best thing to do is to acknowledge yourself in your journal for all of the positive actions and results that you are taking and creating towards your goals.