5 Steps to Successful Planning (#4 Plan Your Goals)

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As a mom, our life doesn't have to be random or chaotic.  With smart planning, we can create the life we love!  There are 5 Steps to Successful Planning which I will be sharing in this series (and you will find these steps are also built into The New Create My Life Planner).  They are:

1. Plan for Balance
2. Plan for Purpose
3. Plan for Victory
4. Plan Your Goals
5. Plan Your Month and Week

Today, let's look at #4 Plan Your Goals!  ​

As Simple As 1-2-3!

I would first like to say, that despite all the fancy talk and expensive programs ...
​goal setting is as simple as 1-2-3! 
​Here's what to do!

1. Choose one big goal.
2. Break it into little doable parts.
3. Track it.

Now, let me show you how  in more detail (plus what to do if using my planner.)

Keep it simple and choose one thing!

#1 Choose One Goal

The one thing I want to do this year is _____.  Fill in the blank, and you have your big annual goal.  It might be a

• a balance goal or 
• a purpose goal.

(See previous lessons in this series.) Either way, write it down and write just one thing down! 

For example, my one thing for this year is to write the next Classical Teaching Textbook.

Write your monthly goal in for each month in the planner.

#2 Break It Down

Now, take that important goal and break it into little doable parts.  How little?  Try to make each part something you can complete within one day and still keep life in balance.

Let's look at my example.  I will break down my Classical Teaching Textbook goal into daily parts.  My goal is ...

• To  write 1 lessen per weekday.

Which means my goal is also ...

• To write 20 lessons in January or
• To write 20 lessons monthly

​until I complete all the lessons in the book.  You get the idea.  I will be able to complete all 125+ lessons, edit, and publish within one year.  So I have a doable annual goal.  Do you have a doable annual goal?  If so, break it into doable daily steps.

Track on the To do list.

#3 Track It

Finally, take your daily bite-sized steps (mine is one lesson per weekday), and place it into your planner's To Do List:  

• ​write 5 lessons this week under the weekly to do

or write lesson 1 on January 1 in the daily to do list.  More on that next week.

So, it really is as simple as 1-2-3:  choose a big goal, break it down, and track it.

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