7 steps to make an achievable goals list for 2005

It is that time of the year again. Yes, it is the end of the year and New Year’s Resolutions Time! Below is my step by step technique to make a list of 2005 goals and resolutions that will give you the best chances to achieve your goals:

1st Step:
Make a list of your achievement of 2004, write them down one by one and take your time to do so. When you are sure you finished the list go ahead and read it to yourself and gently close your eyes and think of yourself before and after. Allow yourself to really feel, taste, smell, and sense how good it feels to set up those goals and to have achieved them. Congratulate yourself and give yourself a Golden Star. Write this list on some kind of fancy paper with a nice design, frame it and hang it where you can see it on a daily basis.

2nd step:
Make a list of the things you maybe had on 2004 goals but you did not achieve. Read it over and check every item on it. Eliminate or change that which you feel needs to be modified. Make a list and set it aside.

3rd Step:
Make a list of what you want to have by the end of 2005, 12 months from now. Narrow it down as much as possible.

4th Step:
Combine the list in Step 2 and 3 into one list. Narrow it down into a fewer items, as much as possible and make a final 2005 Resolutions list.

5th Step:
Translate every Goal in your list into some kind of action that need to be taken. Classify all actions by a timeline: what can be done Now, what can be done in 1 month, in 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, and so on and so forth until the last month of 2005.

6th Step:
Pull your 2005 Calendar and write each one of these actions where it belongs as a priority.

7th Step:
Also take one of those big pieces of paper, write your 2005 Resolutions on one side and their actions on the other side and your Time line in the middle.

Make reduced copies of this list and put one in your wallet or purse, one on your refrigerator, one in your office and one in your car. Take a look at your list every time you can, for example when you are waiting for the green light, when you are waiting for someone, when you are waiting for the bus, etcÖ