In business and in life goals come first! If you don’t know where you’re going you’ll probably end up somewhere else.
I’ve been working with a lot of businesses recently on planning. My thinking was that in times of change planning becomes really, really important. As businesses have shared their plans with me, I’ve been left wondering what was missing that could make these plans even better, and I kept coming back to the same answer: really well-considered long-term goals.
There’s a logical stream that springs from your dreams and flows towards your goals. The route your stream takes is dictated by your strategy. How effectively your stream navigates its route depends on the quality of your plans and how effectively you execute them, which in turn is dictated by the habits, disciplines, and accountability that you build into your life and work.
And so, without well-defined goals, the plan risks being a structure filled with meaningless activity. You aren’t where you want to be because you haven’t really worked out where that is. And as you work on defining your goals better, you realise that the plan you have spent so long working on is going to get you somewhere else entirely, and you need to go back and look at it again.
I’m running a goal-setting workshop next Friday 22nd May 2020. It costs nothing to attend. If you want to register you can find the details on the Events page.
