Focusing on Your 2024 Goals
Cathie Leimbach • January 2, 2024
2024 has just arrived! May it be a Happy New Year full of achievement and fulfillment!
The first step in having a great year is to decide what will make it a great year for you. If you don’t have a destination – where you wish your life and work activities will take you this year, they you can’t map out a path to get there. If you haven’t yet set goals for this new year, then this week is the best time to determine a few 2024 goals with deadline dates.
Once you have some important measurable goals, it is important to hold yourself accountable to consistently take actions towards achieving them. Here are a few steps that will help you stay focused on these priorities.
- Review your goals daily to keep them top of mind.
- Set milestones indicating how much progress you wish to make each week or month.
- Review your progress weekly or monthly to see if you are meeting your milestones.
- When you meet a milestone, celebrate. Go out for a specialty coffee or go see a movie. For major milestones, you might go out-of-town for the weekend or treat yourself to dinner at a high end restaurant.
- When you miss a milestone, review the actions you have taken, what helped you make progress, what were your bottlenecks. Develop plan B that will enable you to make more progress in the coming week.
- If you are stumbling, get an accountability partner to encourage your success and help you stay on track. This could be a business colleague, friend, family member, or a professional coach.
- Keep taking the actions that yield progress.
- And, when each goal is achieved, celebrate!
Wishing you a year full of achievement and joy!
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