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A Simple Process for Setting Bigger Goals

By Jared Dees

This week I sat down to set goals for the new year. After reading a few people’s year-in-review posts, I realized that while I have and re-read daily my long-term mission and visions, I have not set annual goals in a very long time. So, I sat down to come up with a few performance goals and some of the process goals I needed to hit to make those performance goals a reality.

The problem with a lot of the goals I have set in the past is that I either set them too low or I have absolutely no idea what number to hit.

So, I decided to create a scale of success from poor to audacious for every goal I wanted to hit.

I broke down each goal as follows:

  • Poor – I would be disappointed with this outcome.
  • Expected – If I did things exactly as I’ve always done them, this is the outcome I would expect.
  • Good – I would be happy with the hard work I put into achieving this outcome.
  • Audacious – If you told me this is where I would be next year, I would be shocked by the outcome.

When you set higher goals, you work harder and smarter to reach them.

For example, I have a new book coming out in October/November 2018. Here is how I would define the scale of success for copies sold by the end of the year. So in the firs 2-3 months:

  • Poor: 2,000 copies
  • Expected: 2,500 copies
  • Good: 5,000 copies
  • Audacious: 10,000 copies

As I looked at the goals in every category, I realized that achieving the audacious goals in each category would take me in all kinds of different directions. So, I decided to pick one audacious goal, two good goals, and one expected goal for the year. The audacious goal that I picked is likely going overflow into the other goals, which is why it makes the most sense to focus there. This may be a topic for another post.

January 14, 2018 Filed Under: Meaning and Motivation, Meaningful Work, Productivity

About Jared Dees

Jared Dees is passionate about sharing practical resources to teach faith. He is best known for his website The Religion Teacher and is the author of many books including 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach, Praying the Angelus, Christ in the Classroom, and Beatitales: 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children.

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