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Forget the Joneses Day 5: Identify Your Ten KEY Goals

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Prioritizing Your Goals

Now that you've got your assignments done, you'll be taking what you've learned about yourself and your values to create a list of 10 key goals.  If you're overwhelmed with everything on you want to accomplish, it helps to prioritize things and break things down into a manageable list.  Begin by asking yourself if these are high-priorty goals or low-priority goals:

 

High Priority Goals

Have the biggest impact on your own daily life

Have a positive impact on other people 

Accomplishing them will help make accomplishing other goals easier

 

Lower-Priority Goals

Accomplishing them have little impact on your daily life 

May conflict with your other goals (such as saving money)

May be a detriment to others 

 

If you've still got a lot of things that fall under "high priority" goals use the Goal Priority Tool to come up with your top ten.  It's a nifty little tool that takes about 10-15 minutes to use and gives you a good idea of what to focus on.

 

Edited for 2013:  This year, try making TWO goals lists.  One for your top ten lifetime goals, one for your top ten yearly goals.  

 

Assignment:  Identify 10 key goals to focus on this year.  

 

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Sounds good.

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This was pretty easy for me.  Many of my top ten goals encompass other goals.

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Did it, though I couldn't come up with 10.
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Originally Posted by melsb View Post

Did it, though I couldn't come up with 10.

Really? I thought most people would have too many. Just try breaking it down by categories to come up ten:

Finances
Self improvement
Hobbies
Family
Friends
Spirituality
Career
Education
Home/environment
Health
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I came up with eight, though two of them I really felt I was reaching on. So really I came up with six. But I covered personal goals, family goals, household goals, and financial goals.
post #7 of 10

I whipped this right out. Several of mine were linked together. This will most likely be a year with a lot of changes and I need to get organized and prepared for them so that my household keeps running smoothly. 

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I basically took out those that did fall under a larger goal.  There are goals that need to be accomplished before other goals can be achieved the only one that really conflict with the others is get pregnant with baby number 3. Still when number 2 took 4 years to conceive if it happens it happens. That really is the opposite of the loose 100 lbs goal and the pay off consumer debt goal and probable the get organized goal as well. 

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Done!  I was thinking this would take me forever, but that tool made it super easy.

post #10 of 10

thanks for the breakdown of categories-that makes things easier!

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