Goal Writing is Goal Keeping

Nathan | September 30, 2007 | 11:07 pm

Blue Check Mark A new addition to my iGoogle reader is WebWorkerDaily. I’m not their target work-from-home professional but I still find very useful tips there. Recently the article “Developing a Logging Habit” made me think about my daily goals. Using suggested tool Joe’s Goals Fiona and I sat down to come up with some small daily goals we think will enrich our lives. Goal setting sometimes gets to be a wish list…I want to lose weight, it would be good if I did this, did that, I want a pony… and they start to lose their power.

To combat this “wish-list” goal setting we purposely chose a short list (3-4 goals) and will track our progress daily. You’ll be able to follow us along by clicking on the links to the right with our goal charts. Thomas S. Monson teaches “When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates”. We hope to achieve our goals consistently and make them habit. Heber J. Grant stated “That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our ability to do has increased”.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go to bed if I’m going to reach my goal of a 6:30 wake-up. I’ll slowly move earlier as my ability to do increases.