How often do you review your goals? Every year? If so, you may be ahead of most people. Even so, Its recommend that, more frequent review period will seem like overkill for some people, but to me it’s the key to maintaining focus on my goals and actually making them a reality. The key practice to actualizing our goals : Review our goals at least once a week.

Let’s be honest – if you don’t think about your goals, you won’t make them happen. If you aren’t doing anything about your goals, they are just wishes. So, In order to actualize our goals, we need to take the following steps –

  • Set our goals
  • Set action tasks for each goal
  • Do the action tasks – one a day is ideal
  • Motivate ourselves to stay focused
  • Review your goals often – weekly is ideal

Here’s the recommended process ..

Once a year (New Year is convenient, but really any time is good) you should review what you’ve done this year, and set your goals for the next 12 months. Yearly goals should be mini-goals of your life goals.

At the beginning (or end) of each month, review your progress for the past month, and set your goals for the coming month. Set easily achievable goals – it’s better to set your sights low (at least at first) and achieve them than to set them too high and fail. Monthly goals should be mini-goals of your overall yearly goals.

At a set time each week (Mondays work for me), review your progress for the last week, and set goals for the week. These goals should be mini-goals for your monthly goals. For each of these goals, list a few action steps. Then schedule the action steps throughout the week – one step per day is ideal.

Each day, when planning your day, make your goal action step for that day be one of your Most Important Things for that day. Do it first thing in the morning. Once you complete it, you have done something awesome for that day – you’ve taken a small step towards making your dreams come true!

The key is to review these goals and set action steps each week. If you only do it once a year, or even once a month, you won’t remember them on a daily basis.

If you fall off your weekly review, just re-focus yourself and start again the next week. Don’t let small slip-ups stop you from achieving your goals!

Peace out ✌️