How to set your goals
Lessons from the goo-roos that works…
When I was in high school, I was a consistent honor roll student. I was good in Algebra, Statistics, Calculus and Chemistry, and that’s the reason why I am a chemist. I worked with Department of Defense (DoD) funded projects along the way.
But I wasn’t good in math or anything in my elementary years. At that young age, I just wanted to play.
That changed in high school. And I attribute my success in academics due to setting up goals.
Looking back, I never knew that I was following a process that goo-roos, personal development coaches and motivational speakers are preaching, and that is SET GOALS.
No new news there, I set goals, you set goals and everybody set goals. But what I did right before was more in depth. Tony Robbins once said, if you want success, analyze the time when you have success, and that’s what I’m doing.
What I realized is that in goal setting, you have two goals to set, and these are Process Goals and Results-Base Goals.
Let me go back to my high school days when I got good grades in math and science:
I didn’t know at that time but one of my process goals was to study every night for one hour. That’s it.
If you are familiar with Pomodoro Technique of time management, I was doing that without knowing it has a name (I’ll talk about Pomodoro technique next time).
One hour of highly concentrated studying. That simple.
Who knew?
The second goal is Results-Based Goal. This is easy: if we follow my example above, the results-based goals are my grades.
If I didn’t get 90 in the test, I need to work on my process goals.
I didn’t realized even later on that when I succeeded in losing 20 lbs before, I was following this technique.
My process goal was to run 5 miles every other day and eliminate sweets in my diet.
My Results based goal is lose a pound every two weeks.
Simple.
But some things that are simple are hard to execute. But I did it.
Today, I apply these techniques to my business. One of the thing I learned in business is that if I don’t know my numbers, I don’t have a business.
If I don’t know my revenue and costs of goods and the ROI, then how would I scale my business?
I remember if it was Lord Kelvin, the English scientist who invented the Kelvin scale of measuring temperature (in addition to Celsius and Fahrenheit), who said:
You can’t control something you can’t measure…
I think that sums up the results based goals. And every time I read that quote, I think of my business and my blood pressure.
Blood pressure!
Yap, if I don’t control my weight and my diet, it shows up in my blood pressure readings.
Anyway, that’s what I learned from the goo-roos who taught personal development and everything…
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