Goal Setting Tip 4 – Make Goals Your Routine
This week, I’m sharing my fourth tip for ensuring your New Year’s resolutions and goals are set up for success. It’s all about embedding your goals into your daily and weekly routine.
Goals shouldn’t be a one time exercise on the 1st of January, only to be forgotten. In this post, I’ll explain how to integrate your goals into your habits, schedule, and review process to make meaningful progress throughout the year.
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This week I’m sharing 4 top tips to make sure that your New Year’s resolutions and your goals for the year are set up for success. Here is tip number 4.
Your goals have to become something that become part of your weekly or even daily habits throughout the year it isn’t just an exercise you do once on the 1st of January and forget about again.
They have to be worked into your daily and weekly routine. Here’s how to do it. The first step is to make sure that each of your goals has been broken down into actions and habits. See one of my other tips this week for how to do that.
And those actions need to go into your diary they need to be planned into your weekly routine. It sounds sort of obvious, but the people that I work with who carve out time every single week towards their quarterly goals and annual goals are the people who achieve their quarterly goals.
The people who don’t carve out the time to work on those specific actions towards their quarterly goals don’t but for some reason, and it’s common sense but not necessarily common practice. And the second element to this same tip is then that you’ve got to be reviewing your goals and reviewing your diary on at least a weekly basis.
Because if you don’t, it just becomes the exercise that you did in January once and they get forgotten. It needs to be part of your daily or weekly routine that you are looking back at your goals, carving out time to work towards them, and really making that connection between what we’re doing on a Tuesday afternoon.
That feeds into the goals that I want to achieve, the things I want to achieve for my personal life and my career and my business and my team if you don’t make that connection, they’re just these lofty dreams without a plan so check out all four of the tips that I’ve shared this week on creating resolutions, creating goals that are set up for success.
Please let me know how you get on or reach out if you want any help with setting up goals for the year ahead, I’d love to help.
Key Takeaways for Making Goals a Routine:
- Break Goals into Actions and Habits: Each goal must be broken down into actionable steps and habits that you can implement daily or weekly. Without these, goals remain abstract dreams.
- Plan Actions in Your Diary: Schedule time in your calendar for specific tasks related to your quarterly or annual goals. This intentional time allocation is crucial for sustained progress.
- Weekly Goal and Diary Reviews: Set a dedicated time each week to review your goals and calendar. This helps ensure you remain on track and can adjust as needed.
- Create Connections Between Actions and Goals: Link everyday tasks to your broader objectives. Understanding how your Tuesday afternoon activities contribute to long-term success creates clarity and motivation.
- Consistency Beats Grandiosity: Regularly carving out small blocks of time is more effective than sporadic bursts of effort. Make goal-setting and progress review a habit, not an afterthought.
The Wrap Up
Integrating your goals into your daily and weekly routine is the ultimate way to turn aspirations into achievements. By breaking goals into actionable steps, planning them into your calendar, and consistently reviewing your progress, you’ll stay aligned with your vision for the year.
If you’d like help setting or implementing goals for your business or personal growth, book a free 45-minute coaching session with me. Together, we can strategize ways to make your 2025 a year of achievement.
