Hey guys! I hope you are doing great! I have a funky angle here so I hope you’ll just forgive me on that. Hope you guys are doing great today!
I just want to come up here and share something that came up in one of my meetings today with one of my coaching clients through my life mastery program. We were talking about goals and tasks. We were actually looking at their schedule – what time they get up in the morning and what they are doing – their tasks through the day. And it had us talking about goals and tasks – the things that they are doing and why they are doing them, what’s the difference and respecting the difference.
A lot of time, what I’ve uncovered for my clients was that there wasn’t a clear idea of how goals and tasks are working together, and that respecting the tasks would lead to respecting the goals. What my client would realize was that most of the tasks in their day are not bringing them closer to their goals.
I thought about this afterwards and realize, “Oh my gosh! Look at my own goals! Look at my own tasks! Were my tasks bringing me closer to my goals, and what was I doing in the course of the day?”.
First of all, let’s get on the same page of what a goal is. A goal is something you want to accomplish – a vision, hopes and dreams that you want to bring to reality. For example, there is something I want to be in an X amount of time. So let me setup the goals – let me setup the things that I want to accomplish – so that I can realize my vision. These are goals. Maybe your goal is to lose weight, or to complete a marathon. So, I have that goal, and then what I’ll do is to create things to do to reach that goal – the tasks – and then I’ll break those big tasks to smaller ones.
I remember years ago, I was in a mastermind group and in the group, our goal was to do one thousand push-ups in one day. We were blown away when our coach was telling us that! We were freaking out because we’ve never done a thousand push-ups in one day. And he said, “Good! So now let’s create a plan of action. Here’s the plan – you can do one set of a thousand push-ups, or you can do x amount of sets of x amount of push-ups that will, by the end of the day, equals to one thousand push-ups.”
We were all like “Oh! So if I can do 50 push-ups in a row, then all I need to do is 20 sets! 20 sets!” And that’s how I did it. I did 20 sets in the course of the day, 50 push ups each set, and I did my one thousand push ups in that one day. Now it was still challenging but these were tasks I was able to do in the course of the day, and I was able to reach my goal by the end of the day! So I respected my goal and I respected the tasks I needed to do to accomplish that goal.
So, this is what I want to challenge you guys today. Look at your goal is for today, and then look at your tasks that you have setup for yourselves to do today. Are those tasks in line to the goal you want to accomplish? Do those tasks respect the goal or not?
What I’ve found, with my clients, was that most of their tasks were not in line with their goals – did not respect the goal for the day. I know in my journal, at the top, it says, “My top 3 goals or priorities, that must be accomplished today.” At the other side of my journal it says “Tasks that absolutely must be done today”. These tasks are with respect to those goals. I want to challenge you today to look at your goals for the day, pick one and then look at the tasks that you’ve set up for the day. Do they bring you closer to accomplishing that goal or not, do they respect that goal?
Take care talk to you guys soon!
