Goal Setting Re-Imagined - Part I

📢 Re-imagining goal setting like you may have never seen it before

One week of this New Year has already gone by… studies show that about 80% of people who set New Year’s resolutions have already failed. That is depressing, and it doesn’t need to be that way.

This is Part I of what I believe to be a more powerful way to look at goal setting.

🔅Re-imagining the process of goal setting

🔅Imagining your goals

🔅Evaluating your support system

🔅Setting your goals

🔅Accountability

💡 I truly believe “Every human experience from birth to death either improves or impairs a person’s mental well-being, and in turn their human potential.”

💡 People set goals because the commitment, the pursuit, and the accomplishment of the goals will make them a better person in some way. It doesn’t matter what goal, or when a person sets it, the pursuit of a goal will both improve or impair their mental well-being many times along the way.

🔍 With this in mind. What would happen if you looked at your life and long-term goals through one lens. The lens of what is the current state of my mental well-being.

💡 You can ask:

🔅 What is the health, the ‘battery life’ of my current mental well-being? And what goals can I set to specifically focus on improving my mental well-being?

🔅 What goals can I set that will make a positive impact on my current, and future life circumstances that will in-turn make my mental well-being better?

STEP 1: Set a Baseline

Ask, how am I? How is my family? My friends? My co-workers? And those people who I interact with everyday?

Use this tool to assess yourself and those around you.

🔍 No matter what the answer you got from the assessment you completed, you now have a baseline, and you can ask the following question:

💡 What are some things that I can do in all areas of my life to improve the mental well-being of myself, my family, my friends, my co-workers, and those people whom I interact with every day?

💡 I have a reflection question that I have my coaching clients ask themselves every time they are about to do a training session or take an action in their life.

💡 My clients need to ask themselves, ‘Is what I am about to do right now going to make me better or worse?’

🔅 If worse, how can I modify?

🔅 Should I not do anything?

🔅 Do I need to check in with Mike?

💡 The answer to this question is a check point. The consequences of moving forward when it doesn’t seem right may result in sickness, injury, or changing your life circumstances, and each of these things will have a negative impact on your mental well-being.

📢Part II will introduce the following 8 dimensions of wellness as tools for setting powerful goals that will drastically improve your mental well-being, no matter what your current state.

1. Physical

2. Environmental

3. Emotional

4. Spiritual

5. Intellectual

6. Financial

7. Occupational

8. Social

Until then, focus on:

🔎 What are some things that I can do in all areas of my life to improve the mental well-being of myself, my family, my friends, my co-workers, and those people whom I interact with every day?