Podcast Episode 139 - How to make your biggest wish for the new year come true
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Have you ever had a wish or a dream come true? Or they never do.
Do you struggle to make your dreams come true?
When you think about your goals, do you freeze? Or never start?
Today’s podcast focuses on putting some legs to your wish and dreams so they can finally come true.
So, today is for you if:
If you’re tired of dreams, just being dreams.
If you want this coming year to really mean something, do something of significance, or grow in a specific way.
If you’re ready to step more into your purpose this year, whether it’s getting started or growing to another level, this is your day, my friend!
We’ve been talking about making your biggest wish come true for the new year.
But we need to create a plan to make it happen. That’s where goals come in.
Goals are a plan to make your dreams come true.
Before we make some goals, here are a couple of tips if you’re new to goals or never seem to achieve your goals when you do make them:
1. Pick one to three to start
Unless you’re good at making and keeping goals, you’re setting yourself up for failure if you pick twelve goals. Overwhelm will set in, and you’ll freeze up or get frustrated and quit.
2. Scale habit goals
Habit goals are goals that don’t have an end date, like walking three times per week.
Start with one, get consistent and then add another one in. When you get consistent with the second one, you can add a third one.
And no one said you had to start all your goals on January 1st. Breaking them up and starting them at different times is perfectly ok and super effective.
Here’s the SMARTER goal framework for effective goal creation from Michael Hyatt’s book, The Best Year Ever.
S: Specific – No vague goals here, like be fit. What do you really need to accomplish? Lose 25 pounds?
M: Measurable – You need to be able to measure it, like walking three times per week for 15 Minutes.
A: Actionable – Us an action verb like walk, run, write, do.
R: Reasonable or Risky – It needs to stretch you but not be a crazy goal that sets you up for failure. I probably won’t be a New York Times best seller my first time out, but I can stretch myself to write and self-publish a book in 2023.
T: Time-bound – Add a due date for a target goal, like losing 30 pounds by November 25th, or editing my book by March 31st.
E: Exciting – tap into why you’re excited about this goal.
Click here to check out podcast episode 90 for more details.
Let’s turn those dreams into goals so we can put some legs to those dreams, shall we?!
1. Start with your dream
Look at your dream or wish; maybe it’s becoming an author, creating a successful business, or becoming financially independent.
Writing a book and publishing it in 2023 is my dream but not my goal. It’s too big. I need to break it down into goals to accomplish it.
2. Create a goal
Goals create the path, the plan, to achieve dreams.
My goal lays out the plan to write that book I want.
Goals to write a book could be:
Write a book by April 1st.
Edit the book by June 30th.
Format the book by August 15th.
Etc.
Remember to use the SMARTER framework.
3. Break down your goal with Micro goals
Examples of micro goals for my book goal:
Sign up for a course (which I did) by January 4th.
Attend weekly book coaching sessions.
Write 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week.
Research book editors by March 15th.
Ask an author for an editor referral by March 20th.
Etc.
Your micro goals are the daily actions you can take. They always support the bigger goal. And the bigger goal supports your dreams…get those legs moving towards making your dreams a reality.