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Goals Template - Use Mindmaps to Achieve Your Goals

The main objective for the year revolves around achieving clear focus and direction while maintaining a healthy balance in various life aspects. The plan includes setting and prioritizing goals related to physical health, financial stability, and personal development.

Goals Template - Use Mindmaps to Achieve Your Goals

Goals 2007

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Theme

The overall theme for this year is gaining a clear focus and

direction, and maintaing a healthy balance of all major areas of my

life. 

Areas of Focus

By the end of the year I will be in excellent physical health, have a

bright financial future, and will be incredibly well versed.

Format and Guidelines

- Review goals at a high-level daily

- Review in detail once every month and readjust areas accordingly

- Setup action items and hard dates in time management software

- No more than 5 goals per area

- Focus is on short-term goals, but long-term goals are listed to

keep perspective

- Goals in each area are prioritized

    1 = Most Important: Critical!

    2 = Desired

    3 = Nice to Have

- 3 Top goals for the year are chosen.  These take precedence over

all others.

- S.M.A.R.T. guidelines are followed

     *Who:      Who is involved?

     *What:     What do I want to accomplish?

     *Where:    Identify a location.

     *When:     Establish a time frame.

     *Which:    Identify requirements and constraints.

     *Why:      Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of

accomplishing the goal.

Rest / Play / Hobbies

Travel to Africa

Travel to Fiji

Travel to India

Take up Astronomy as a hobby

Hobbies now become Career and Contribution

Music

Start actively playing guitar again

Travel to South America

Trip to Europe

Travel
Wine Tour

Research SideWays Wine Tour

Same locations as in the SideWays movie

We've always wanted to go on a wine tasting trip.  Santa Barbara is world-renowned for wine so this will be a great opportunity to have fun and create lasting memories.

Santa Barbara, CA

October 2007

Travel to Santa Barbara

Trip to Bahamas with Friends

My friends I have been talking about taking a trip together for years.  Now is the time to do it.  We've always wanted to travel to the Bahamas so this will be a great opportunity to have fun and have create awesome memories.

Aruba

August 2007

Travel to Aruba

Friends

Trip to Las Vegas

Save money for the trip each week

Request time off for work

Las Vegas is one of our favorite destinations.  Going together will allow us to share a great experience and also spend time with family so we can have a fun, memorable experience.

Mandalay Bay

June

Travel to Vegas

Hobbies
Devote time to playing music

Practice at least 2 hours per week

Music has always been a passion of mine, and it's important to

devote time to creative and relaxing activities.

Play sax

Relationships

Start raising a family

Go to family reunions

Coordinate time to visit with family

Request off work

Family is very important, and it's great to be able to keep in touch as often as possible.  Family reunions are a great way to share memories, keep in contact, and let others know how important they are.

Summer

Make time to travel back home to visit family

Family

Spend more time with my significant other

Do common activities together

Dates

Restaurants

Movies

Board games

Watch favorite show's together

Spend time on each other's activities

Go out on dates more often

Significant other

Mental / Emotional

Complete personal development courses

Brian Tracy

Anthony Robbins

Learning is my greatest passion.  The more I can learn, the better.  As I become more efficient in learning, I've better able to consolidate information and become a better teacher.  Reading and learning helps open my perspective, and allows me to grow as an individual.  I've grown significantly over the last couple yearsand want to keep that trend going.

Home and in Car

Feb 2007

Compete 3 personal development courses

Increase the number of books I read and audio courses I listen to

Cut down on how much TV I watch

Complete 12 audio courses

Read twice as many books in a year

Read at least 40 pages per day

Learning is my greatest passion.  The more I can learn, the better.  As I become more efficient in learning, I've better able to consolidate information and become a better teacher.  Reading and learning helps open my perspective, and allows me to grow as an individual.  I've grown significantly over the last couple yearsand want to keep that trend going.

Dramatically increase my emphasis on reading, learning, and growing

Spiritual

Realize and achieve my life potential. Teach and inspire others and leave a positive legacy.

Learn more about meditation

Mediate for at least half an hour each day

Learning more about meditation is going to dramatically accelerate

my spiritual, emotional, and mental growth.  According to Ken Wilber,

dedicated mediation for 1hr per day for 4 years will helpdramatically accelerate growth.

Practice different techniques

Learn formal meditation techniques

Take Yoga classes 2 times a week

Begin taking classes immediately

Yoga will help me in a number of areas.  The most import areas is in

developing my spirtiual practice and helping to enhance meditation

techniques.  The second area is physical fitness.  Continual yoga practice

is going to help me become physically fit and incredibly flexible.

Mon and Sat classes

Attend Yoga classes

Finances

10 year

Buy second home

Save money for continued education (masters degree)

Own a large, beautiful home in an exclusive neighborhood

Become more knowledgeable about personal finance and investment

Subscribe to finance blogs

Study Warren Buffet

Find creative ways to increase revenue and reduce debt

Reduce expenses

Cancel unneeded services

Reduce eating out

Increase revenue

I need to proactively educate myself in areas of finance.  The primary

goal is to have a specific, actionable gameplan for reducing debt,

increasing revenue, and maximizing earning potential.

Immerse myself in education about finance and investing

Organize and streamline my finances

Create a stricter budget

Pack lunches

Limit eating out

Balance checkbook once a month

Get all financial info in Quicken

We need to maximize the money we have coming in, reduce debt as

much as possible, and save as much money as possible in order to

help satisfy our future goals.  This is the foundation for making this

happen.

By the end of Jan 2007

Become more conscious of our spending and earning potential

Significant Other

Contribution

Participate in community service

Begin volunteering for a few hours a month on the weekends

My ultimate goal is to become a contributer/helper/teacher and impact as many people as possible. 

Shelter

Volunteer and help others

Career

Obtain executive level position

Increase annual salary by 50%

Read 5 critical books related to my career and field of study

Read

Book 5

Book 4

Book 3

Book 2

Book 1

It's essential for me to sharpen my skills and read books that will help me improvecritical areas of my career.

Home

Keep my tech skills sharp and improve my knowledge

Enhance leadership skills

Study Peter Drucker

Subscribe to top blogs

Learn best management/leadership practices

Enhancing my leadership skills is going to help me in many areas. Overall, my main goal is to help people and leave a lasting impact.

In the workplace

Now

Lead others through example and positive interactions

Positive role models I can model

Physical / Health

Long-term
lifetime

Participate in a triathalon

Black-belt in martial arts

5 year
3 year

Run a marathon

Complete 12 week body building program

Post progress to my blog

Track all food intake and workouts in CrossTrainer

Follow exact routine as I did in 2001

Getting back in peak physical shape will be a tremendous

accomplishment.  Not only will I feel great due to being in great physical

health, but I'll also have a defined physique.  Having my external image

match my internal image is critical.  I'm a health enthusiast who is

passionate about staying in shape. 

Gold's Gym

Train from Sep to Dec

September 2007

Max bench press = 250lbs

Reduce body fat percentage to at least 11%

me

Reach ideal weight of 185 lbs
Action Plan

Restrict calories to fixed amount and eat healthy!

Workout 5 days per week

Rest on Thu and Sun

2 days strength

3 days cardio

Why

Once I reach my ideal weight, I will have significantly increased my self

confidence.  My physical appearance will be vastly improved  And, more

importantly, my strength, endurance, and overall health will increase

exponentially.  This will give me the energy and drive to pursue my other

goals with passion!

Where

Gym

When

Finish

3/31/2007

Start

1/7/2007

What

Emphasis on Cardio and toning up

Who

Me