I listened to one of Michael Hyatt’s webinars last year on goals. While presenting the content, he said something that was a bit of a game changer for me.
“You get two kinds of goals – projects and habits”
He might have actually used different words but this is how it landed in my mind.
I had a huge AHA moment.
I’m no stranger to the two types of goals… but I’d been calling them projects and recurring goals. When I made a new kind of goals sheet last year, I even put thought into which recurring goals were on my list every month, and incorporated these into my monthly goals form.
But suddenly calling it a habit made a big difference.
Because I know I’m good at creating habits. Could that be a superpower? 🙂
I have a system, set myself up for success, work the system and soon, it’s a new way of doing or being.
For instance, eating breakfast. For years, I didn’t “have the time” to eat breakfast. I then decided that it was the healthy thing to do and I needed to start doing it. I created a reminder in Outlook every single day at 9 am, it reminded me to eat, and so I ate.
Once it was a habit, I was good.
Same story with water. And with conquering my email.
At the moment, I’m working on two new habits – getting a full 7 hours of sleep every night (my goal this month is actually 7 hrs 15) and cleaning my face before bed.
I’ll feedback about those when I do this month’s goals review.
Even Goals Night is a habit 🙂
Over to you.
What kind of format do your goals generally take?
Do you have more once-off projects or habits that you try to work on?
I’d say my goals lists have slightly more habits goals than once-off projects
I like thinking of it this way. Although I confess I am woefully inconsistent with setting goals! Evne with your – and a hundred other – good influence! (And I am trying to wash my face every night as well!)
We can do it!
I’m going to post next week on how it’s working for me but confession, it’s using the strategy of convenience http://takechargesolutions.org/blog/2015/04/13/gretchen-rubins-strategy-of-convenience/