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Do You Tune Your Goals to Get Maximum Opportunity Attraction?

August 24, 2009 by Liz Leave a Comment

You Don’t Need Luck

My blog and my business changed when I wrote my blogging goal. Thing is I should have known that. Setting goals is one of those life lessons that I keep learning over again.

Sometime in college, I figured out that whenever I made a goal that was tuned tightly to who I am and what I do well, it easily became a catalytic action. Goals became my way of saying …

I don’t need luck, if I can make things happen.

What I realized was that goal set As Antoine de Saint-Exupery said …

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Every successful and outstanding business, every well-conceived campaign or action becomes an opportunity magnet with goals that are

  • clear, concrete, and intentional — What will you accomplish? Why will you be doing that? Who or what will help yo?
  • measurable — How will you know you got there? What will count as a good score?
  • reachable — The strategy can be to get to the stars, but the goal should be the next step. What will you do to get there next?
  • matched to your skill set Great goals make us stretch enough to be challenged an interested. What will will you need to learn or put in action to achieve this?
  • time dependent — Place a time frame on what you’ll be accomplishing. Goals need focus and urgency to keep momentum. What is the end date?

(skills x passion) + problem solving = opportunity magnet

For a goal to be an opportunity magnet, it’s got to have some actionable attraction. Great goals use what’s uniquely our own — the strength of skills, the leverage of our situation, and the momentum of our passion.

Do you tune your goals to get maximum opportunity attraction?

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–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Comments

  1. Jamkeng says

    August 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM

    i believe i’m luck but i need a motivation to do something and i have got in this article:)

    Reply
  2. Todd Smith says

    August 24, 2009 at 4:58 PM

    good timing, Liz. I’m starting bring it all together and make my business really work. Your reminder to keep it real is just what I needed to hear. I’m putting more details on my plan as we speak. thanks.

    Reply
    • ME Liz Strauss says

      August 25, 2009 at 7:42 AM

      Hi Todd,
      It’s great when the focus becomes self-expressed. I can see that through your blog and through your comments. Are you finding that what you doing is more natural and easier to talk about?

      Reply
  3. Christa M. Miller says

    August 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    I thought I had a goal but after I read this (and Angela’s post today), I revised it. 🙂 How often do you find you have to revise goals, and what do you find triggers it? Internal or external factors, or a mix… and to what extent (subtle, major)?

    Reply
    • ME Liz Strauss says

      August 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM

      Hi Christa,
      Every now and then I wake realizing that something has pulled me off my path and I need to get back to it. Keep your goals starting from inside you. That’s the only piece of the dynamic that won’t change.

      Every time I find myself revising my goals (I revisit them about 3 times a year) I’m putting them back to where I had them … like some goal thermostat. heh heh

      Reply
  4. Todd Smith says

    August 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    Hi Liz, Yes, you are right, there is less of a gap between what I think and what I say and do. I think this the “be authentic” quality you always emphasize.

    PS. I love watching your business expand on that solid ground of authenticity.

    Reply
    • ME Liz Strauss says

      August 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM

      Todd,
      I love watching the same thing happen with you. Can’t wait to meet you in person!

      Reply
  5. Todd Smith says

    August 25, 2009 at 7:16 PM

    Thanks, Liz. You are very sweet. You already know that I love hanging around here. I can’t wait to meet you too.

    Reply
    • ME Liz Strauss says

      August 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM

      Todd,
      We’ just got to coordinate our schedules better. heh!

      Reply

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