'How to Review Your Goals for Quarter 1’

The 1st quarter of this year has ended which leaves you to make time to review what you’ve done so far? It’s a good time to review your goals to ensure you’re on track and plan ahead to make sure you stay on course. Here are 3 steps to review goals: 1. ‘Divide it’, 2. Review, 3. Plan.

Step 1: ‘Divide it’

It sounds overwhelming, or vague, but if you divide the quarter into 3 blocks of time it comprised of e.g. January, February, March for Quarter 1, you will see its way easy. Not least of which, as you can divide each month into 4 weeks too :) So you now have 12 periods of time to monitor vs. 1 unlimited vague one.

Step 2: Review

Take each week, and check:

- items scheduled that brought you very fruitful productive outcomes in the direction of your yearly goals (remember we did that exercise in January),

- activities scheduled that brought productive outcomes,

- and those activities that brought nothing i.e. were irrelevant to achieving your goals :)

The key thing is to note the number of unimportant things we do that have little or no impact to achieving our goals. Isn't it a miracle how much time we spend, worrying, talking, or thinking about what we want to do, want to achieve, with out actually doing it or doing very little to achieve it.

If we focused our attention instead on those activities that helped the productivity of our dreams via our goals - that would make us achieve them and hence much happier making our dreams a reality.

Step 3: Plan

So instead of lamenting, look at the 3 months ahead: April, May, June; learning from this review you made time to do now for Jan-Mar..

- Plan ahead for the next 3 months - the activities you started and wish to complete, wrap it up this month.

- Look at the Goals you wished to accomplish this year; you should have picked 1 per month for January, February, and March. Now pick 1 for April, May, June (its fine if you didn't do the first 3 months, start now!)

- Break that goal up, into 4 achievable Steps.

- Remember the Goal and Steps should be SMART - Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Timely.

- Schedule your activities 'to achieve those goals' for the day or the week you’ll do them.

Tip: A key to stay ahead of achieving your goals via reviewing them, is to plan your schedule at least a week in advance and review your goals weekly so you can follow up on any omissions

To your success,

*Esha

Question: Have you had success reviewing your goals? I’d love to hear about it! Please share your comments below

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