Goals – Career and Life Coaching

Three Easy Steps to Setting Your Goals!

Published on February 23, 2016 by Allison FisherLeave a comment

Have you been thinking about setting goals for 2016 but still haven’t quite got round to it?

You know goal setting really doesn’t need to be hard. Sometimes a lot of energy is taken up by the thinking of it rather than the doing of goal setting!

Certainly challenges can get in the way like the effort of actually finding the time to write them, wanting to achieve way too much or simply just not knowing what it is you want!

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Here’s an easy way to do them and keep an eye on them through the year:

STEP 1:
Firstly it’s about setting an Intention. An Intention is to have in mind a purpose or plan, something to aim for like your dreams, passions, hopes and dreams. Have a piece of paper available to write down your ideas about what you want to happen this year. Jot down your ideas as they come to you.

Have it as your intention for the week by asking yourself “If I could create or have whatever I wanted this year in my life what would be happening? – in my relationships, in my career in my personal life etc?” Here’s a couple of examples of Intentions “ To find a new Career”; “To get physically fit and healthy.”

“Is that all I hear you say?” Yep that’s all. Journal

A good idea is to write your intentions and goals in a special journal, your diary or a diary separate to your everyday one.

STEP 2:
From these Intentions decide what are your most important goals for this month? What is it that you need to do to make these intentions come alive? Draw some large circles and write these inside. For instance for the health intention above, a goal could be ‘To research healthy food options.’

STEP 3:
Finally each week decide what tasks you need to do to achieve your goals for the month and write those in small circles or you could pop these at the start of each week in your diary. tick

And your off! So at the end of each month check in with your years intentions, review last month’s goals, re write them for the new month, and continue your actions each week.

And yes please do CHANGE your goals if after a while they just don’t fit!

I’m happy to discuss any queries you have around goal setting. Email or call me.

What do you Wish for?

Published on July 24, 2014February 29, 2016 by Allison FisherLeave a comment

“Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr Phil

No matter what you think of Dr Phil I do think he has some good insights to human nature and behaviour, and like this statement can make us pause a minute and reflect on ourselves.

I really like this quote because sometimes we can get stuck about not having something while perhaps we can simply give it to ourselves. We can find ourselves wishing someone would call us first, wishing we could have a quick nap in the middle of the day, wishing we got more hugs from our partners, wishing, wishing, wishing. So what might you wish for that you could give yourself? It’s a bit like giving to yourself first. Sometimes we get so good at giving to others we forget or don’t have enough time for ourselves and what we want.

The next time you find your self wishing for something ask yourself is it something that I could give myself this time? And call that friend for a coffee, give a hug when you want one and read that book you’ve been dying to read.

So don’t wait around wishing whatever you wish for, find a way to give it to yourself.

Contact Allison Fisher Career & Life Coaching to create your wishes!

What is important to you this year?

Published on February 10, 2014February 29, 2016 by Allison FisherLeave a comment

In my last blog I discussed writing an Obituary. This is about identifying what your wants are in life. Could be what you want to achieve, could be who you want to be, behaviours you want to develop or what you want to create in your life.

The next step now that you know what you want is to make this into specific GOALS. So thinking about the year ahead, look at your Obituary and decide what are the priorities for you in 2014 that will help you achieve what you want in life. Ask yourself what is really important to me this year? What would make my life interesting, purposeful, exciting and fun? Write those ideas on a large piece of paper then follow the 6 tips below to create clear goals:

Write goals as if you have already achieved them e.g. ” I run twice a week” or “I have a loving intimate relationship”.
Be specific – how will you know you have achieved the goal?
Check – how much do you want this goal on a scale of 1 to 10? If a 5 or 6 rating then ask yourself is it important enough? Is there another goal that is more important.
Small bites – if you want to run a marathon maybe the first thing you need to do is buy new shoes? So plan one bite and one step at a time!
Check are there any obstacles to achieving your goal? If there are how can you circumvent this or perhaps ask for help to climb over the obstacle.
And finally chunk the goals to achieve each month. So in February what are the actions I need to do to work towards my goals? Make a list and tick them off as you go. Then set the next actions for March and so on.

If you would like to begin 2014 clear and focused, then call or email Allison Fisher, Career & Life Coaching to discuss your way forward.