Our latest goal setting tips come from Huw Grove, one of the sponsors of the year long What’s your Goal? campaign for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Owner of The Learning Grove, Huw works with organisations to help them understand what results they want to achieve and how they can reach them.
Here are Huw’s top ten tips for achieving a goal;
1. A goal without a date is a dream; a dream with a date is a goal
2. Effective goals are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Action oriented, Realistic, Timebound
3. Be specific - what exactly is it you wish to achieve?
4. Timebound - be specific with the date - next week, tomorrow and later are all
poorly set times
5. Action oriented - include milestones that can be quickly achieved to spur you on
6. Realistic - this needs to be more than achievable, it needs to be achievable with your resources
7. If you are serious, tell someone you can trust. A shared goal beats a lone goal
8. Positive - you should want to have the goal, not want to not have it - I.e. want to be fit, not lose weight.
9. Clearly imagine how you will feel when you have achieved the goal
10. Write your goal as if you have achieved it, not as something to achieve in the future
On supporting the campaign, Huw said; “I think the What’s your Goal? campaign is a great idea and I’m very happy to be a sponsor for it. The advice I have provided I use with my own clients and it can be a great tool for setting and achieving any type of goal, whether it’s business related or to improve your health and wellbeing.”
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