Comments on: A Planner’s 3 Rules on Resolutions

By: Arthur Bland

Arthur Bland — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:45:40 +0000

Without a planned sense of direction you end up spinning your wheels and getting nowhere. — Very well said, Amanda! This is often a tendency that we do.

By: Ivana Taylor

Ivana Taylor — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:37:38 +0000

Hi Tim -

I good friend of mine often says that people know more about what they want on a deli sandwich than they do from their business or their life. The point being that you can’t get what you want until you know exactly what it is, what it looks like, and what having it will do. So thanks Tim for reminding us.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:25:45 +0000

These are good tips Tim. Anyone can write down a specific goal on a piece of paper but it’s the planning steps on how to achieve that goal that are usually missing. Without a planned sense of direction you end up spinning your wheels and getting nowhere. I like that your 3 simple tips can be applied to just about any goal whether for business or your personal life. I’m going to implement these into my own new year’s goals.

By: Bianca Aquino

Bianca Aquino — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:02:40 +0000

Make it Concrete, Specific, and Measurable — Thanks for the great tips, Tim!

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:21:44 +0000

Tim,

Great reminder! I haven’t had time to write down my resolutions yet, but I will do it this weekend. I wrote on this topic in my post from December, 2007, WRITING DOWN NEW RESOLVING THOUGHTS.

Regarding point 3, is it similar to the weekly review in the Getting Things Done time management system?

By: Hazel Edmunds

Hazel Edmunds — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:05:20 +0000

Tim
Thank you for those thoughts. I’d not really thought about personal goals being specific in the same way as business or project ones. OK, now it’s not “stop this” or “do that” but set a specific goal – and preferably in small increments that are easily measurable.
Now I’ll go and blog this and link back to you.

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:49:49 +0000

Hi Tim, Great post! There’s so much to be said for being specific. It makes you think through the issues — that alone helps you achieve them. If you never get specific enough to articulate your goals and your tactics for achieving them, then you haven’t thought them through nearly enough.

Anita

By: MaryJo

MaryJo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:41:55 +0000

Nice Thoughts! It is indeed important to have concrete, specific measurable goals. If not, you can never be sure you’ve accomplished what you actually set out to do. Whenever I read about planning, goals, and misalignment of goals. I’ve been thinking about this again lately. I wrote about this on my blog (http://mojo-ramblings.blogspot.com/2008/01/goal-misalignment.html) about a year ago. It seems to be that new year that brings retrospective thinking about goals.