Assign goals to spiritual, relational, financial, educational and physical.
Human beings have been blessed with five senses; sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
Have you ever met someone who has an incredibly heightened sense of smell? Do you know anyone who has bionic hearing and can hear a conversation about them when they are in another room?
Some of our senses are more acute than others based on our experiences, up-bringing and current events.
Just as we have five senses it is essential to assign goals to five important aspects of your life spiritual, relational, financial, educational and physical.
Jim Rohn was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker and a huge influencer in the personal development movement. His books often featured his rags to riches story focusing on attitude and action. I would love to have spent time with Jim – he was known to say ‘we have two choices; we can make a living or design a life’.
Make a date with yourself – every January allocate time in a favorite spot to review the year just past and for the future year. The discipline of this process will ensure you focus on the most impactful activities.
Set one in five – set at least one goal in each of the five areas of spiritual, relational, financial, educational and physical. This discipline ensures you are taking care of your health, the people in your life and the lifestyle you want to lead.
Joint focus – if you share your life with someone, consider setting a few joint goals. My husband and I always have joint travel goals so we know where we want to go during the coming year and how to allocate our funding for trips. After being married over 20 years … this works well for us.
Daily focus – when we interviewed Brian Tracy he shared ‘he writes his goals out daily’. Brian is an author, thought leader and one of the most influential people of our time. Every day he invests in what he called the Golden Hour, time spent reading his goals, feeding his brain with positive images and visualizing results. He says ‘goals in writing are dreams with deadlines’.
What can you do to focus on five? Do you need to review your goals to finish this quarter strong? If so, make an appointment with yourself to focus on your five.
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