Push Jump Start Day 2 Homework

Homework

The goals you set should be things that, when you achieve them, you’re going to be over-the-moon proud! They take work, but they’re exciting enough that you’re motivated to put in the sweat equity.

Think about the 10 things that you would love to see happen—financial, physical, personal, from a business standpoint, from a spiritual standpoint, from a relationship standpoint, anything that you can think of—12 months from now. (I told you this would be fun!)

Just list your top 10 goals. Leave your Push goal and your health goal blank for now. We will identify them in Days 3 and 4.

GOALS!

Date: 11/12/2011
Push goal: 
Health goal: 
1. I have run a 4.5 hour marathon
2. I have complete a triathlon
3. I have lost 15 pounds
4. I meditate every week as a regular practice
5. I have paid off my credit card debt
6. I have moved into a new home in the city
7. I have a regular yoga practice and I can touch my toes
8.  I have written a short story
9. I have performed a story or poem at an open mic
10.  I can swim with confidence and no fear of drowning.

So let’s take a look at your list of 10 goals. As you read over each one, ask yourself:

Is each goal specific? “I want to be thin” is too vague. Give it a measure: a size, a body-fat percentage, a specific range—something that can be quantified.

Specifics give you confidence, keep you accountable, and hold your feet to the fire. “I am making more money” and “I have paid off some of my debt” are way too easy and too vague for someone like you—someone who is going to kick ass in the next 12 months!

Do I believe I can accomplish this goal the next 12 months? When you set goals that are vague, such as “improve health,” you never really experience the satisfaction that comes with checking something off your list. Pointing to one of the numbers on your goal list and saying proudly, “Wow! I did it!” feels pretty darned amazing. I want you to set goals so cool that you can’t wait to tackle them.

Could I dream even bigger? Don’t be afraid to hope. Go big! When I did this goal worksheet with my best friend in the spring of 2010, she listed that she wanted to earn $500,000 with her home business. I said, “What?! No way! I know you. I know your passion and how organized and committed you are to growing your business. I also know you’re already on your way to hitting that financial goal. So what you’re saying is you hope you can maintain that momentum? No way, Monica. What’s a number that would be really exciting, but really tough? The kind of number that means getting focused?” She said, “Well, I guess to be earning $15,000 a week would be crazy cool.”

A year later, guess what she was earning? Yup! And hitting that financial goal allowed her to fulfill most of the other numbers on her list. Her husband retired from his full-time career to work side by side with her helping other couples navigate the waters of running a business together. With www.partnerwithyourpartner.com, she learned to snowboard, took eight vacations, cut back on her personal training clients so she was home more often, hired a personal assistant, spent more time with her family, and, most importantly, she created a far less stressful and far more balanced life for her husband and their triplets. (Yes, you read that correctly. Parents with triplets are living a balanced, low-stress life? Yup, and you can, too!)

I tell you this story because it drives home an important point: Somewhere along the way, people lose belief in themselves. They forget that they too deserve the possibility of a perfectly designed life.

So let me push you. Pretend right now that you and I are looking at your goals together. Would you be able to say your goals are very challenging? Are you stretching yourself? Will your goals require you to do things differently? Do they push the status quo? If you don’t aspire toward greatness, you cannot achieve greatness. It’s really that simple. And if you aspire toward small things, you will achieve small things. Sure, you can set your goal to be “I want to organize my closet.” And I bet you’ll actually achieve it. But, we’re talking about setting some jump-off-the-cliff, this-is-scary-but-I-can-do-it kind of goals!

Once you’ve listed your goals, asked yourself those three questions, and are satisfied that each and every one of the 10 goals you listed is both doable and crazy cool, go back and ink ’em. That’s right. Write them in ink. There! You’re committed now.