Setting Goals | Monitoring Progress & Success

In this goal setting post series, I have outlined two steps:

Step 1:
To change your life, you first have to identify what you need to change. In case you missed this post and would like to download the FREE “Life Review Deep Dive” exercise to help you get clarity, you can revisit the post and exercise here:
https://www.itopiacoaching.com/blog/change

Step 2:
Once you have identified what you need to change, there is still one more step you need to take before  setting goals. This step is: understanding your motivation for the goals. In case you missed this post and would like to revisit it and download the FREE goals setting exercise, you can access it here:
https://www.itopiacoaching.com/blog/start-with-why

Step 3:
In this step I showed you how to set goals using the iTOPIA acronym. In case you missed this post and you would like to download the FREE goal setting template and exercises, you can access it here: https://www.itopiacoaching.com/blog/set-goals

Now let's talk about the importance of celebrating success & monitoring progress.
 
Celebrating Successes
Milestones are essential steppingstones towards realising your dreams, and it is critical to recognise and celebrate these successes. Without recognising and acknowledging the achievements we make towards our goals, and, by only focusing on the result, our goals can feel and seem too overwhelming, which can lead us to give up the pursuit of our dreams.

I recommend diarising a reward in your diary at the end of each quarter to celebrate your achievements thus far – having a reward diarised will help keep you incentivised as you work towards your goals.

Key questions to ask yourself:

• How will I determine what each milestone will be?
• How will I reward myself when I reach each milestone?

Monitoring Progress 
In addition to maping out when to celebrate successes it is also imperative to set out a goal plan.
 
Setting a goal map or plan is essential to achieving our goals – without setting out a plan it is near impossible to reach our goals because, without a plan, there is no strategy or accountability. 
 
I log my goals and initiatives in an excel spreadsheet; however, you can choose to do this more straightforwardly, for example, in a notebook. The critical thing to remember is to record your progress against your goal initiatives daily so that you can refer back and measure your progress against your goals at the end of each quarter.
 
Refer to the below goal plan example:

The green fill indicates that the goal initiatives were achieved, whereas the red indicates that the goal initiative was not achieved. 

Exercise 1:
Create your own goal plan in either an excel spreadsheet or notebook. 

Exercise 2:
Once you have been working on your goals for 4 months, complete the attached Annual Quarterly Review Assessment.
  
Document the achievements that you have made towards your goals and also detail the challenges/obstacles you faced. 
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Conducting this exercise will ensure that you recognise and celebrate your successes as well as acknowledge the roadblocks/obstacles that you may need to adapt to in order to reach your goals the following quarter.

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