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7 Steps to Absolute Success in 2012
Step 2 - Setting Targets or KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
Now you have done your stock take or audit, it’s time to set some targets or Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s.) Get out the piece of paper that you wrote your six or seven areas of your life and re-read what you wrote. Considering each area, what worked and what didn’t, now give yourself a score out of one to ten for your overall performance in each area. One being poor and ten being excellent. As you review your score, spend a moment considering why you may not have got the results you wanted and how you would like this area to be. Paint a picture in your mind of the ideal you in each area and fully consider what you would have to do to improve the score in each area.
For example, if one of your areas was Health & FItness, and you only gave yourself a five, ask yourself what would you have to do to improve this area? Would you have to exercise more often, perhaps start exercising, or be more consistent? Would you need to eat less junk food, more fruit and vegetables, drink more water, or even give up a habit such as eating white bread, chocolate biscuits or cutting down on alcohol?
As you consider this area, write down five things that you will commit to doing that you can measure every week. A good time frame for this process is 90 days, or 3 months. Consider what you could do in 90 days that would absolutely create better health. You probably already know but perhaps aren’t doing the steps necessary? Writing them down will assist you with staying on track.
For example, it could be:
- Yoga twice a week
- 3 x run/ 2 x spin class at gym every week
- Drink 2 litres of water a day
- One day a week only to eat chocolate biscuits
- Four alcohol free days a week
Write down things that are realistic. If you haven’t been exercising more than once a week, it probably won’t work if you write down that you will exercise six times a week. Make some of them easy, some that may push you more, and all of them “doing” things that can be monitered. Now do this with each area of your life. You may find you want to have two areas for business or work. That is fine, as long as you have one area for yourself.
Now you will have a set of action steps for each area or your life that you can measure. Keep this plan on a piece of paper somewhere you can check in often. Perhaps on the fridge or behind your desk. Check it regularly, daily, every few days or at least once a week. At the end of the week you can see how you went, what areas you did or didn’t focus on.
The most important thing to remember is to use this as a guide, like a roadmap to keep your focus on what you want to do. Don’t beat yourself up because you didn’t exercise or take time out. Too often we beat ourselves up if we don’t achieve what we set out to do, and then we give up. This process is more forgiving, as it gives you more options rather than less choices. Life is busy, humans aren’t perfect and remember, in the Mindset of Champions it’s what you do about the experience that counts. It’s being able to change what isn’t working, and to be able to fall down four times and get up five times! What is your normal attitude if you slip up? Can you allow yourself permission to slip up, to not be perfect and to get back on track?
This method alone will help you keep focused on what you want to achieve, is measurable, more achievable and probably a better strategy than setting New Year’s Resolutions, taking two big steps and then falling down and giving up!
Next week we will look at the bigger picture - what will this all get for you.
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