Do Your Goals Have Specificity?

Do Your Goals have Specificity? 

December is the season for reflection, remembrance and rejuvenation...For gratitude, giving, grace and goals.

Recently at a So Now Networking event we were asked, "What is the one thing you would do or goal you would set for 2017, if you knew you couldn't fail?"

Many shared their exciting goals: Improved networking, increased membership, start a business, consistent exercise, financial stability, more focus, better vision, fulfill spiritual needs, abundant success, life happiness......and the list went on.

What I noticed though was that my goal, like everyone else, lacked one very important ingredient: SPECIFICITY.

In other words, specifically how increased membership, more focus, life happiness or abundant success could be achieved.  The specific plan for.....
>What we were willing to do and when.
>What our doable steps were.
>And how to break those steps down into what needed to be done today, tomorrow, next week, next month.  

So I went back to the drawing board and faced my big goal head on.  First, I identified what the most important 6 parts of my goal were. Second, I identified 5 overall steps what I thought each of the 6 parts would require.  Third and finally, I set a deadline to each of those 6 steps. 

Do your goals have specificity? Apply these 3 steps to your goals and your 2017 will be wildly successful.

1 Peter 4:10
"God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another."

Many Christmas Blessings, Jenn

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Do Your Goals have Specificity?  December is the season for reflection, remembrance and rejuvenation...For gratitude, giving, grace and goals. Recently at a So Now Networking event we were asked, "What is the one thing you would do or goal you would set for 2017, if you knew you couldn't fail?" Many shared their exciting goals: Improved networking, increased membership, start a business, consistent exercise, financial stability, more focus, better vision, fulfill spiritual needs, abundant success, life happiness......and the list went on. What I noticed though was that my goal, like everyone else, lacked one very important ingredient: SPECIFICITY. In other words, specifically how increased membership, more focus, life happiness or abundant success could be achieved.  The specific plan for..... >What we were willing to do and when. >What our doable steps were. >And how to break those steps down into what needed to be done today, tomorrow, next week, next month.   So I went back to the drawing board and faced my big goal head on.  First, I identified what the most important 6 parts of my goal were. Second, I identified 5 overall steps what I thought each of the 6 parts would require.  Third and finally, I set a deadline to each of those 6 steps.  Do your goals have specificity? Apply these 3 steps to your goals and your 2017 will be wildly successful. 1 Peter 4:10 "God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another." Many Christmas Blessings, Jenn December Leadership Tip  5 Steps to a Winning Social Media Marketing Plan  2016 by Sarah Vaughn "Maybe by now, you think you’ve read everything there is to know about a good, or heck — even the best — social media plan for your brand or business. On the other hand, maybe you stumbled onto our blog as you are just now realizing there is more to do than just posting that company-wide newsletter to Facebook. In either case, you have struck gold because we are about to teach you how to create a brilliant, winning social media marketing plan in just five steps. Let us dive in, shall we?"   1. Listen This is one of the vastly underused and underrated social superpowers that many strategies skip right over. There are two ways you should be listening. First, create an RSS feed of at least 20 different social media expert blogs and the major social channels, themselves. You want to understand the latest changes, best practices and demographics for each channel. Second, listen to what your customer base and other experts are saying about your industry. You can do this by setting up search alerts in HootSuite or another social management platform. 2. Plan Based on the discoveries you glean, define goals, channels, metrics, the tools you will use to measure them and, of course, your budget. = 3. Do a SWOT. While the Strategy, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threat quadrant was originally meant for social media’s slightly stodgier cousin — public relations — it can and should be applied to any company starting off, upping its marketing efforts, or going through a rebrand. It’s helpful to think of each element regarding both internal and external possibilities. 4. Create Your Strategy Campaigns, hashtags, content types and messaging (including crisis response messaging and plan). Creative and informative pieces of content are key. Give more than you ask for and point to as much original content (housed on your website) as possible. 5. Analysis Measure and tweak every month. Doing it more than this isn’t allowing your campaign to take root and grow legs and doing it less could mean you’re missing out on opportunities to grow and improve ROI and ROE. The 3 D's to a DAZZLING December!   1. Delight in the beauty behind the reason for the season. 2. Devote time to contemplate whether you are honoring and featuring your special gifts in your business and life. 3. Dream BIG and map out an action plan for the New Year and share it with two people.   HELP!  I'm stuck! Are you ready to put the pieces of your life puzzle together and highlight your best self? Are you STUCK and looking for a way out? Have your dreams been shattered and you want help picking up the pieces. Jenn was diagnosed with ALS in 2013 and is finally speaking out about her rugged path and internal demand to live a fulfilled life in spite of ALS. Stop by each month and discover Jenn's insight on how to love life in spite of the path it may be on. December Insight: Squash Negative Self Talk   Grab Jenn's Chapter Here!     "The Soul of Success" Jenn teamed-up with Jack Canfield and several leading experts from various industries and captured the core strategies to their heart of Health, Wealth and Success. Download Jenn's chapter   So Now Professional Network for Women Join us in Sylvania, Maumee, Lima, & Findlay, Ohio. We declared 2017 as "The Year of the Sky!" Paint the sky - Make it yours! Visit our Facebook™ Page for Updates Register for Networking Events   Market Your Workshops with Ease!   Looking for a workshop topic that appeals to your crowd? Confused about how to market and fill your workshop with excited participants? Find out how at your Complimentary Business Strategy Session. Email JennWenzke@jennwenzke.com and Jenn will schedule a  Session with you.

Psalm 18:32, 35 - "It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.  You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great." Tony Gaskins - "If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs."

Jenn Wenzke Life & Motivational Coach NLP & MBTI Master Practitioner Co-Author w/Jack Canfield, The Soul of Success Founder of So Now Professional Network for Women Copyright © 2015 * So Now Coaching, All rights reserved. P. O. Box 350251 | Toledo, OH 43615  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list