How To Break Down Your Goals and Free Up More Time | SOBY 043

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Meeting the long-term goals you’ve set for yourself can be difficult. Maybe your long-term goal is to have more clients or to spend more time traveling with your family. Maybe you’re trying to finish school with a full-time job, or maybe you’re finally going to hire your first employee!

Whatever your long-term goals are, it’s sometimes hard to get clarity on just how to actually reach them. After all, how do you eat an elephant?

Well, on today’s episode of Stand Out Be You, we’re learning how to do just that! Today, Tequila continues our productivity mini-series to give you tips, tricks, and insight on how to break down your “elephant goals,” increase your productivity and grow in business and life.

How to Break Down Your Goals

Time is non-refundable, so use it with intention. With everything you do, begin with the end in mind, and do it with purpose.

Doing any big project takes time, and goal-setting is definitely a learned process. But once you’ve learned the best way to break your elephant goals into bite-sized pieces, you’ll be well on your way to reaching those goals even faster!

Today’s episode focuses on helping you mentally strategize your approach for tackling your goals. The process of brain dumping allows us to relieve some of our stress by capturing all of the ideas, projects, and goals floating around in our minds, whether these are tiny to-dos or massive accomplishments. Once you’ve learned to do this, Tequila’s tips for prioritizing your most important areas of focus will help you decide how to organize your own way forward, helping you stay out of overwhelming in the future.

Listen On to Find Out:

•      Why we always have such a hard time with goal-setting
•      How to break down your goals into bite-sized pieces
•      The “goal reversal” solution, and why it works
•      What brain dumping means, and how to do it effectively
•      How to organize your days by mapping out your goal strategy
•      Why it’s so useful to collaborate with others and grow your business
•      How to increase your focus and get more done every day

Follow Through on Your Goals With Us

Through this mini-series, you’ll learn the best ways to follow through on your biggest elephant goals. And along the way, we’re supporting you with cheat sheets, masterclasses, co-learning webinars, regular collaboration, and live Q&A. Join us on the Faces of Collaboration Facebook group to make sure you don’t miss a second of it! Plus, you’ll hear from Tequila and past podcast guests in the group, making it a great way to get regular tips and tricks about facing some of your biggest goal-setting obstacles.

Resources

In addition to the Facebook group, we have some great help to send your way! Access the tools we talked about on this episode here:

Wunderlist.com is great if it's all personal and you do not have a business.   If you are in business I recommend Trello.  I placed my trello board here for you to see how I map out and break down task.  My Trello Board.  If you are interested in more Trello business boards I will be reviewing them inside the Facebook group.

RESOURCES

Productivity Workbook and Organizational Board