Hello, and welcome to this 2nd episode in a series I’ve called: “Plan & Succeed”.
In the previous episode, I argued that good planning and organizational skills will help you both in your daily work – and in your career. (That’s the episode called “Can Planning Help Boost Your UN Career?” which you can find at www.barbarakandersen.com/17).
Planning, structure and prioritisation will of course help you be more effective with your day-to-day tasks and projects. Which will make you feel better about your work and your professional life. And which will certainly add to your professional reputation – and in that way to your career development.
But it’s also essential for deliberately setting specific and actionable goals and milestones for your own career development. And, maybe most importantly, helping you take action on these goals. Creating that happy UN Career for yourself!
Do you enjoy working with goals?
Or do you maybe have more of a love/hate relationship with goals?
Many of my clients are in that last category.
They often love the idea of goalsetting. When it’s still far in the distance and the goals make them feel industrious and ambitious.
But then, often when the goals are set, they suddenly feel burdensome, and you can start worrying that you might not have the strength and the resources to reach them.
Then it can feel like the goals are looming over you. Like concrete blocks that will fall on your head if you don’t work hard enough and reach your goals on time. And that doesn’t feel motivating at all.
I’ve definitely experienced this love/hate relationship with goals myself until I learned how good goalsetting works for me.
So, I want to show you how to enjoy working with goals because you’ll see how clear your goals get. And you’ll appreciate the way well-framed goals will help pull you towards the dreams you want to achieve.
So, why are goals so important?
Because goal setting can be a very powerful tool in your professional development!
What’s great about using goals in a very deliberate way is that they are the way to making your dreams and visions (and your ambitions) tangible. When you do it right, they will
- Push you towards the dream of the vision you want to achieve, and they’ll
- Pull you at the same time
They help push you because they remind you of your ambition. That you have made this promise to yourself and that you don’t want to let yourself down on. This becomes especially powerful if you also create accountability for yourself.
And they pull you because if you have created your goal in the right way then the image and the feeling that you have of your goal will be a strong attraction and motivation for you. Just like putting a beautiful photo of your next holiday location on the wall will pull you every time you look at it.
So, well-developed goals are really the way to move on your dreams and visions. And ambitions!
The SMART way to powerful and motivating goals
There’s a great guide for setting up goals, and you might already have heard about it. It’s called SMART.
However, even if you already know about it, my experience is that most people don’t really use it very well. If they use it all. And that’s a big shame because SMART is both easy and effective.
So, this is how it works...
Read the full show notes at http://www.barbarakandersen.com/18
Hello, and welcome to this 2nd episode in a series I’ve called: “Plan & Succeed”.
In the previous episode, I argued that good planning and organizational skills will help you both in your daily work – and in your career. (That’s the episode called “Can Planning Help Boost Your UN Career?” which you can find at www.barbarakandersen.com/17).
Planning, structure and prioritisation will of course help you be more effective with your day-to-day tasks and projects. Which will make you feel better about your work and your professional life. And which will certainly add to your professional reputation – and in that way to your career development.
But it’s also essential for deliberately setting specific and actionable goals and milestones for your own career development. And, maybe most importantly, helping you take action on these goals. Creating that happy UN Career for yourself!
Do you enjoy working with goals?
Or do you maybe have more of a love/hate relationship with goals?
Many of my clients are in that last category.
They often love the idea of goalsetting. When it’s still far in the distance and the goals make them feel industrious and ambitious.
But then, often when the goals are set, they suddenly feel burdensome, and you can start worrying that you might not have the strength and the resources to reach them.
Then it can feel like the goals are looming over you. Like concrete blocks that will fall on your head if you don’t work hard enough and reach your goals on time. And that doesn’t feel motivating at all.
I’ve definitely experienced this love/hate relationship with goals myself until I learned how good goalsetting works for me.
So, I want to show you how to enjoy working with goals because you’ll see how clear your goals get. And you’ll appreciate the way well-framed goals will help pull you towards the dreams you want to achieve.
So, why are goals so important?
Because goal setting can be a very powerful tool in your professional development!
What’s great about using goals in a very deliberate way is that they are the way to making your dreams and visions (and your ambitions) tangible. When you do it right, they will
- Push you towards the dream of the vision you want to achieve, and they’ll
- Pull you at the same time
They help push you because they remind you of your ambition. That you have made this promise to yourself and that you don’t want to let yourself down on. This becomes especially powerful if you also create accountability for yourself.
And they pull you because if you have created your goal in the right way then the image and the feeling that you have of your goal will be a strong attraction and motivation for you. Just like putting a beautiful photo of your next holiday location on the wall will pull you every time you look at it.
So, well-developed goals are really the way to move on your dreams and visions. And ambitions!
The SMART way to powerful and motivating goals
There’s a great guide for setting up goals, and you might already have heard about it. It’s called SMART.
However, even if you already know about it, my experience is that most people don’t really use it very well. If they use it all. And that’s a big shame because SMART is both easy and effective.
So, this is how it works...
Read the full show notes at http://www.barbarakandersen.com/18