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Your Bull’s-Eye in Life – Willy Stewart

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Your Bull’s-Eye in Life

Target planning is basically converting your dreams to goals and developing a plan to accomplish
them. These goals become your target, your bull’s-eye in life.

This process is nothing new—the idea of goal setting has been around forever, but very few actually
do it. Studies have shown that only about 5 percent of the population is focused on where they want
to go in life and seriously plan how to get there, creating their circumstances and their future. The
rest exist as a sailboat without a rudder, going where the wind blows them.

Earl Nightingale, famous radio personality and motivational speaker from the ’50s, said that the
Greatest Secret regarding the key to success is that “we become what we think about.” He
describes success as the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Therefore, to be successful in our
endeavors, we have to plan, we have to set goals, and we have to progressively work toward their
realization. We have to set coordinates in our sailboat and adjust the course as we navigate toward
the destination.

In the promotion of a balanced life, I encourage goal setting in the following order:

1.Family – Spending quality time with your significant other, with your kids, with extended
family.

2.Self – This includes your mind: feeding your brain with intellectually stimulating activities;
your body: exercising, eating healthy, doing things in moderation; your soul: having a daily
quiet time of prayer, meditation, devotional time; and finally, your community: giving back
and helping those less fortunate or in need.

3.Work – Working effectively, using management tools such as problem solving, and having a
clear direction of where you want to go.

Since target planning is determining what you want in your personal and professional life and
developing a plan to achieve those goals, the best way to go about this is to plan from the future to
the present and implement in the reverse.

Plan From the Future You Want

To begin with, think about your “someday” goals, both personally and professionally. Look out 10, 15
years and think that if you had a magic wand, what would your ideal life look like? Think about your
Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs). What are they? Or think about regular, smaller goals that fit
your desires. WRITE THESE GOALS DOWN!

Then look out three years from now; what needs to have happened in the next three years that will
put you on course toward your someday goals? WRITE IT DOWN! Now look 12 months out, what
needs to happen, what goals need to be accomplished that put you on track to meet your three-year
goals? WRITE THAT DOWN!

Now take the yearly goals and break them down into three-month goals, and write down what you
need to do during the next 30 days to accomplish your quarterly goals. You can even define your
weekly goals for the month and detail them down into a daily to-do list.
It has been proven that it takes doing something 21 consistent times before it becomes a habit. So
start your goal setting today. Put the coordinates in your sailboat and captain it to your
predetermined destination. Trust the process, it works!


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