Creating Your Goal Plan, Part 2: Tips From A Life Architect
Be specific
Congratulations! You have created the outline of your plan for your ideal future. You have a great overall goal. You know what this structure will look like, at least from the outside, in a very specific way. But a plane is more than a shell. Provide exact specifications for each room. In the same way, your overall goal is made up of several smaller goals.
Let’s get some rooms on that plan! Just as you don’t jump from an empty shell to a completely finished house, you don’t jump from where you are today to a fully realized overall goal. Just as your home will have clearly defined rooms, your goal plan will have clearly defined subgoals.
Here’s the business goal for Part 1: Within the next 24 months, I want to build a coaching and consulting business that works with wealthy, high-potential, high-performing women who want to put time and energy into creating their ideal lives and / or I want to have a steady income of $ 1 million from direct services and $ 1 million from passive income while working no more than 20 hours per week, no more than 30 weeks per year.
Create subgoals
Sub-objectives may include: 1. Identify ways to put myself in front of my ideal clients. 2. Develop persuasive reasons for these women to select my services. 3. Create materials for coaching programs live and at your own pace. 4. Create an effective system of record and distribution.
Creating a logical flow
Each of them represents a room in the plan. The next step is to see how these rooms fit best. What is the optimal flow through space? How big will each room be? How does each relate to the others? This is accomplished by organizing and developing the subgoals. When you enter a house, does it make sense to enter a bedroom? Probably not. But could the kitchen or office take up as much space as the living room? Could be. The rooms on your plan should be arranged in a way that is logical for you. Therefore, your subgoals should flow in a way that is logical for you.
The above objectives may work well in the order in which they were initially presented. But there are other settings that work fine.
1. Develop persuasive reasons for these women to select my services.
2. Identify ways to put myself in front of my ideal clients.
3. Create an effective registration and distribution system
4. Create materials for coaching programs live and at your own pace.
It might make more sense to have systems installed before you act.
Rearrange your subgoals until you have a flow that works for you. Then define the purpose of each room. Be very explicit. Develop and clarify each objective using the SMART model.
Find obstacles
A good architect understands that every project can have what appear to be limitations. A good plan helps uncover those potential limitations or obstacles so that the architect and client can figure out how to address these real or perceived obstacles. Doesn’t it make sense, then, that you want to see the possible obstacles to reaching your goals? If you can identify potential obstacles, then you can develop a plan to overcome them.
This is subtarget n. # 4: Create materials for coaching programs live and at your own pace.
Rewritten as a SMART target, it would look like this:
Over the next six months, reuse, recombine, and expand current workshop articles, exercises, and materials to create a cohesive two-day workshop, a two-hour promotional workshop, a six-part teleclass, and two four-part e-courses. What are some of the obstacles to achieving this goal? What action planning is necessary to overcome the obstacle?
Eliminating obstacles through planning
Obstacle 1: There may be time constraints. Action plan?
Review the schedule and create a number of short periods of time to spend on writing.
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Outsource the rewrites.
Obstacle 2: There may not be enough material. Action plan?
Get invited authors to contribute. -OR- Look for additional material.
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Hire an investigator.
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Test the material and add contributions from subsequent discussions.
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Use questionnaires or focus groups to generate content.
Using your blueprint
Get the idea? When you look at your floor plan from the broadest perspective, fine-tune to understand the overall interior, then focus on the exact content of each room, you will have the construction of your dreams. Your goal blueprint provides the big picture and specifics you’ll want to create the life of your dreams.
Keep your plan handy. Remember that sometimes when a room is completed (subtarget), you may want to change other rooms. Okay, this is a work in progress, after all, this is your glorious ideal life. Make all the improvements you want! You can be the do it yourself from the first vision to the finished project; if so, that’s great. You may want advice from friends or a great life architect to give you advice along the way. Get underway! It is never too early to start working on the life of your dreams.