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Thank you.

I understand what you are saying. My problem is that in any one day, I have many different things to do. I can't turn each of these into a goal, there are just too many.

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Should I just stick with the slightly woolly goal and keep at it, or maybe pick out a couple of the larger tasks to work on and hope that the smaller ones follow along behind?

Regards

Helen




Helen, we all experience the same problem. Too much to do, not enough time. To answer your question, from experience, I have found that YES I can turn EVERYTHING into goals. Goals are tasks that have a start and an end - so why not.

Personally speaking, I found chunking (thanks Tony Robbins) helped me write down and achieve my goals for the day, week, month, year more efficiently and I went on from there. If I am unable to meet a goal then I don't sweat it - I do it when I get around to it. What this does is makes me realize how realistic I was in setting my goals in the first place.

I am a big procrastinator when it comes to physical exercise (fitness). I love it, don't get me wrong. I feel alive when I workout but I procrastinate all the time. So I chunk my fitness goals. Start a workout. Do 30 minutes in the a.m. and then do balance of it in the PM.

At work, I work on 1 thing at a time. If I am working on a case that I know will take me a week to go through, then I set goals and say I will do this much today, that much tomorrow and so on.

All that is required is for you to DECIDE what you are going to do and stick to it. If people disrupt your plans then you need to decide what is more important - their interference or your work. If it is a boss who is just dumping things on your desk then you just need to tell the person it will get done, just not today or this week.