Nikki Bush discusses setting goals in terms of narrowing down where you decide to focus your energy, effort and attention, so that you achieve more.
If you are like me, then you probably have too many goals, or a strategy that is not focused enough. You need to pare things down a bit to really win meaningfully in the year ahead. Here is a window into my imperfect, sometimes messy, but always interesting process.
The conversation covers:
- Self-reflection as a starting point
- The importance of writing it all down
- Editing your goals and strategy
- Being realistic
- Questions to help you filter out goals
- Taking things off your list
- Why you don’t have to do everything now
- Talking through your goals and ideas
- Turning goals into strategy
- Why less is more
“I am a firm believer that no experience, good or bad, a success or a failure, is ever lost or forgotten. Every experience is part of your story of how you got ‘here’ and makes you a unique and interesting person, in your personal and professional life.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
“Successful businesses always look through the return on investment (ROI) filter, and so must you as an individual. Sometimes it pays to view yourself as if you were a business, in order to be more objective and less emotionally-tied to the goals you are setting out to achieve.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
“My biggest ‘aha’ for this year has been this: you have to take things off your list; not because you can’t do them but because you are not going to do them now, in this cycle. Maybe this nugget of wisdom (that was given to me by a sage voice of reason) might be just what you were needing to hear too.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
“Giving yourself permission not to do things, is as important as deciding what you are going to give your all to. This is especially difficult when you are good at or an expert in many things, or you are in a rush to achieve your goals.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
“Goals can be big, hairy, audacious, juicy, downright-scary and motivating, all at the same time. The steps to get there are where the rubber meets the road. Are you actually going to take the necessary action and will it last the distance? The devil is all in the planning and the detail. Don’t make the mistake of taking on too much at once.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
“I have always had big plans and dreams, way too big for just one year. The challenge is what to focus on ‘this year’; to decide which pieces of the puzzle are important to work on and develop now as part of the ultimate big picture. Do less, or focus on less, but give it your all, and you are likely to achieve more in the long run.”
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert
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