Goal creation.

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 Goal creation: 5 helpful rules

By Carthage Buckley July 10, 2013

Having developed clarity of vision for your life and familiarised yourself with the checklist for setting effective goals, it’s now time for some goal creation. Goal creation is the process of generating the effective goal which will enable you to turn your life vision into reality. This requires some brainstorming where you let your mind run free. When creating goals, it’s important that you place no limitations in your way. To aide this process, I have a few rules for the goal creation phase.

Rules for goal creation

The following rules will assist you in making the most of the goal creation phase so that you may set the most effective goals possible.

1. Focus on one life area at a time

There are seven key areas of life which must be kept balanced. This enables you to derive the greatest level of joy from your life. The seven areas are:

Career

Health

Relationships

Personal growth

Fun / Leisure

Finances

Service

For a fulfilled and balanced life, you need to set effective goals for each of these life areas; goals which will challenge you. However, for the goal creation phase to run smoothly, it is best to focus on one area at a time.

 2. Go with the flow

Goal creation is a process which requires a strong sense of imagination. Your imagination is guided from within, by your subconscious mind. It knows what you want from life and what you are capable of achieving. Do not be restrictive with your imagination. Do not try to force or guide it in any particular direction. Simply pick the area of life you wish to focus on and allow your imagination to run free. Your job here is to capture the ideas as they stream forward from your subconscious mind.

 3. Suspend judgement

Anytime you allow your imagination to run free, you will undoubtedly come up with some ideas which are a little too far-fetched. The goal creation phase is not the time to determine whether something is realistic or not. That comes later. During goal creation, it is essential that you suspend judgement. This time is for capturing ideas, not evaluating them. Anytime you pause to evaluate an idea; you stop the flow and restrict your thought processes. This can cause you to miss out on a valuable goal.

 4. Write everything down

During goal creation, your mind is working incredibly fast, producing a large number of ideas in a short space of time. Failure to capture these ideas could lead to a valuable goal being lost. It is impossible to remember everything and you don’t want to miss anything so you need to have a pen and paper to hand. Capture every idea as soon as it enters your mind. This allows you to move onto the next idea, safe in the knowledge that the previous idea has been captured.

 5. Set a time limit

Imagination works best when under a little short-term pressure. Setting a deadline encourages you to work quickly. A stream of ideas flows from your mind. The time pressure also reduces your urge to evaluate each idea as you realise it is wasting precious time. I find that a time limit of 3-5 minutes works best.

 Questions to inspire goal creation

During goal creation, the following questions may serve to prompt and inspire your imagination:

What do I want to do?

What do I want to have?

Where do I want to go?

What do I want to learn?

Who do I want to spend my time with?

How much do I want to earn?

How much leisure time do I want to have?

Now that you have some rules and guidelines; set aside the time for goal creation and have some fun with it. Work at your own pace. If you wish to create goals for each of your life areas on the one day – that’s great. If you wish to do it over a number of days – that’s also great.

About the Author: Carthage Buckley is a Stress and Performance Coach with Coaching Positive Performance. Carthage has more than 10 years of international experience working with entrepreneurs, executives and ambitious professionals; helping them to eliminate stress and maximise performance.

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