Make Your Own Personal Growth Goals

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehi­cle of a plan, in which we must fer­vent­ly believe, and upon which we must vig­or­ous­ly act. There is no oth­er route to suc­cess.” — Pablo Picas­so

One of the things I talk about in my book Your Oxy­gen Mask First is Resilience Rit­u­als (see Chap­ter 3 in the book, and exer­cis­es on Five Steps to Mas­tery on pages 20 to 23, in the Workbook.)

If you want to enjoy ongo­ing suc­cess, you must have goals for your work, your self, and your life.

This is the key to tak­ing care of your­self. For lead­ers who burn them­selves out and fade along the way, this is one of the key strate­gies to get their game — and their mojo — back.

And for those who want to keep going it’s a great way — a crit­i­cal way — to keep tak­ing care of your­self; to stay your best so that you have the ener­gy and focus to keep get­ting bet­ter and better.

Per­son­al Growth Goals

A very sim­ple way to keep this top of mind is to set your own per­son­al growth goals.

Each of your team mem­bers will like­ly have three to five busi­ness goals per quar­ter (as you should if you are fol­low­ing Scal­ing Up™ or Rock­e­feller Habits™ or some oth­er good plan­ning methodology).

I rec­om­mend adding anoth­er lay­er of per­son­al growth goals — one around Resilience Rit­u­als to keep your­self strong, and anoth­er focused on chang­ing a behav­iour or improv­ing something.

The Chal­lenge

• In addi­tion to your three-to-five quar­ter­ly busi­ness goals, set goals about build­ing your own strength and resilience, and about how you are going to grow and improve.
• Tip: Do a week­ly check-in with your team to see how you are doing – just a thumbs up or thumbs down. Am I stick­ing to my resilience rit­u­als or not? Group account­abil­i­ty can help you to stay on track.