Regular goal reflection can supercharge your success rate.

If you know me, you know I make goals. Better still, I absolutely insist that my clients make goals too. I’ve even got a handy guide for you to read on goal setting. But goals are useless if you don’t do anything with them after you have written them down. Goal reflection is also needed to make sure they are still right and relevant. That’s what we’re doing here today:

• looking at why it’s important to reflect on your goals
• surveying the scene by checking what is happening at the moment with your goals
• examine the progress you have made or need to make on meeting your goals
• checking if those goals are actually still relevant or if they should be changed

What’s Important About Reflecting On Your Goals?

When I start with a new client, we generally discuss in detail their goal. We spend time imagining that it’s been achieved, working out what needs to happen to get there & then I drop the boom

“Your goal will most likely change in the action taking of achieving your goal.”

So why the heck spend so much time getting really clear on a goal to start?

TO START is the answer, because you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve started to find out.

Goal Reflection Helps Us….

We Learn By Analysing What’s Happening

Life Changes, So Goals Can Too

Allow You To Celebrate Success

Gives You Perspective On How You’re Doing

Questions To Ask Yourself About Your Goals – Surveying The Scene

When you are reflecting on your goals, it’s no use asking yourself if you met your goal. You are just going to get a yes or no answer and that’s not going to help anybody. Instead, try asking yourself these questions:

• Why is this goal important to me?
• Who can help me achieve it?
• How will I stay focused to achieve it?
• What’s my next step?

Then Move on to Deeper Questions:

• How do I know if I have achieved my goal?
• What are my benchmarks for measuring success?
• Am I on the right path to achieve my goals?
• Are my goals still relevant?
• Do I need to split bigger goals into smaller goals?
• Did I underestimate myself and my goals just seem too small to drive me forward now?

Measuring Goal Progress

You can measure quantifiable goals, such as income. What some people find, though is that some of the goals they have written are not measured easily. You may have just found that out through reflecting on your goals, that you can’t tell how you are doing on them because there is no way of measuring your goal. Luckily, that’s another reason why reflecting on your goals is important – you can adjust them! If you haven’t got a measurable goal, then go read my article on goal setting now. If you have, it’s time to measure it. How far have you come towards meeting your goal? Have you fully met it or only partially met it? Once you’ve answered these questions, then it’s time to think about if your goals are still relevant and ones you want to have.

Double Checking Your Goals

The final part involves reflecting on your goals. Are they:

• Goals you still want to work towards meeting
• What you need to tweak to make them more appropriate for your changing needs
• Goals you wondered why the hell you ever wrote them
• New goals you need to write from scratch

So now it’s “shows and tell” time. Let me and the world know how you are going with your goals and be honest. If they suck, we wanna know and if they rock, let’s celebrate together!