05 – Your Weekly Plan for Success
For today’s lesson, you’re creating your weekly plan for success. Take a look at your monthly goals list and see if you can determine weekly action steps to achieve them.
Setting weekly targets, and reviewing your progress, is a great way to make sure you work towards your goals. You can always revise your plan as needed.
So, if your goal is to “get out of debt,” that’s what you write as your big goal. Then you break it down. Over the year, it might be realistic for you to pay off $2,400. Then your monthly goal would be to pay off $200.
But, paying down what you already owe is only part of getting out of debt. The other part is saving so you never need to rely on credit. So, your weekly goal might be to put $30 in a savings account.
Maybe your big goal is to be a writer. Perhaps you want to finally finish your novel this year. Put those in your big goal and year spots, then set a weekly goal that reflects the number of words or pages you will need to produce to achieve it. You can set a monthly goal to meet with a writers’ group, coach, or someone else who can help you on your journey.
Track Your Goals Every Week
Even though we’re taking a bird’s eye view here and looking at the whole year, write your goals into your planner each week as you get to it. Don’t fill these in ahead of time.
Why are you writing this in your planner every week? Putting your goal front of mind ensures that you remember to take action. Action gets the job done.
When you’re evaluating your progress every week, it gives you feedback as to how well your action plan is working. You can then adjust your steps accordingly.
Your worksheet exercise is to sketch out weekly goals that will help you stay on track. Write these into your planner each week to keep track of how you’re doing.
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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins
