So in this video I would like to share with you on unpack and look smart.
Goal setting.
No this isn't a new concept.
And if you are familiar with this framework terribly sorry can I apologize.
No for most likely teaching you how to suck eggs.
All right.
But some people this is going to be a new concept and I've I've honestly I've heard this framework talked
about I've seen it presented in so many contexts in the past and in such a dry intellectual academic
and informative way.
And what I want to do here is just show you how we can apply this framework this goals and framework
but only really in the context of vision.
All right.
So I wanted to take a slightly different spends a slight different slant on this smart goals and focus
I think I mentioned in the last video or maybe two videos ago that sometimes some people have this have
all sorts of weird and wonderful visions for the lifes you know.
And over the years especially inside of the Facebook group every now and again I'll make a post or submit
a post talking about you know life purpose or personal vision something like this and some people come
out with things like you know I want to save the whales I want to end poverty through Africa I want
to you know ends of abuse in relationships and I want to end child slavery and all this kind of stuff
and that's all fantastic.
You're perfectly amicable having some M.S. dreams and goals and ambitions like this.
But the question is how specifically the app plan on a completion that's what a marriage and revisit
the hierarchy of ideas.
Remember we have chunking up and we have shrunken down and sometimes we can become so American that
chunked up the reasons why what we want to accomplish the greatest most grandiose goals and visions.
But if we do have any specific actionable steps so we can actually be taken today towards getting there
then our visions and our life goals are nothing more than nice ideas.
All right.
That said are very very unlikely to ever become a tangible reality.
And this is kind of where the smart goals and framework becomes useful.
All right.
Where we start critiquing and analyzing and pulling apart and interrogating our best laid intentions.
Why.
So that we can start being effective so we can start making progress so we can start making an impact.
If there is in fact something that we even want to do.
So the S and smart goal setting stands for specific.
Right and this is about chunked down aspects of our goal.
No.
I had a goal around about six or seven years ago and it was actually to develop and build an international
global community of people that I could be a part of.
Right.
When I first started studying life coaching and counseling and I invested quite a lot of money sort
of gone and attended some life training courses I spent the thousands and I got drawn into the scums
you know and how to be a six figure life coach and air and all this kind of money and all the rest of
it and so yeah I've been stung by all that kind of common stuff that's out there as well.
And and what oh what a quote a group to get really passionate about and frustrated and was and was how
little information I'd been able to retain through a seven or a two week training course or even if
I was studying like a longer term course perhaps one or two evenings a week or something like this am
studying is fine now is fine being presented with a whole lot of ideas a whole lot of information.
But if we don't have opportunity to practice that which we're learning we're never going to grow incompetence.
And guess what.
As a life coach you can be as knowledgeable as you want but if you do not have the competence when it
comes through practice then you become absolutely valueless as a life coach for other people.
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So my vision was to create this online global community of coaches of helping practitioners and and
making available such and such at such a low cost that anyone could join.
All right.
And then ecology was born.
Now here's the thing.
It was a grandiose vision.
It was a fantastic vision.
And back then to be honest with you I felt quite overwhelming at times.
So the specifics as you saw for how and why am I doing this.
Everything starts with why when we have a goal when we have a vision and we can have a desire to to
achieve the greatest goal we want to achieve in life.
But if we are not clear on the reason why where we want to accomplish this goal then am make struggle
to find the motivation to see the goal through to completion if we're building something or pursuing
something just for could pursue in something or sometimes just for the sake of being busy or sometimes
just for the sake of doing something then we might not always see the goal through to completion.
So why is kind of what becomes the driving force then powers us to see our goals through to completion.
For me the Y became greater than the actions and the actual steps needed to take along the way.
So I wanted to create the kind of environments and the kind of community for other people that I never
had for me when I spent tens of thousands of pounds on some courses that were a complete waste of money
where I got nothing more than a smart goal set and framework and that wheel of life and the usual junk
that gets presented on life coaching courses.
I wanted to provide a series of trainings that were actually based upon experience based upon actual
tangible outcomes and results that would actually enable people to start making a positive impact in
life.
Why.
Because I was always positive won't make an impact.
All right so I wanted to create an environment for people who also want to make an impact in life.
No.
It took five years and it was a whole lot of steps that we had to take along the way.
All right I had to be able to measure the goal realistically back then.
This was a massive project I want to create a global community and a global home calculator Web sites
Academy for people who want to make a difference in the world for people who want to make an impact.
But that isn't going to happen overnight.
Where's the community going to come from what action steps must I take.
I was clear in the what am I wasn't so clear on the how but it was crystal clear on the why why I was
doing what I was doing.
How was I going to measure the goal.
Well realistically I'm only going to be able to measure this goal as I see people actually starting
to apply these principles that I'm teaching which I'm only going to be able to see if I create and only
I see this only in training courses and then put together some interim community perhaps a Facebook
group or something like that.
So that's what I've done I have put in place a number of medium term goals that would allow me to at
least be progressing towards the longer medium term goal.
No.
Here's the thing.
Achievable.
When we come across people who say I want to save all the whales.
Alright.
Yeah.
Nice one is achievable.
How on earth is one person going to save all the whales.
How on earth is one person going to eradicate child hunger and poverty throughout the African nations.
How on earth is one person going to do that.
All right.
Yeah it's good to have challenging goals but they've also got to be achievable.
They've got to be practical All right.
We've got to look and evaluate ourselves and sometimes ask our clients or are your goals kind of you
know pragmatic or they are kind of a little bit wishy washy airy fairy pie in the sky.
Is this something that you can actually do something about right now at a stage in your life.
Or is this something that you could perhaps you know as a group you could perhaps join a group of other
people.
How achieve boy is the goal you're actually set.
Here's a principle.
If a client or any human being sets goals that are completely unachievable and then and then for years
to pursue in this goal Well then get nowhere then how will likely you think they are readily committed
to achieve are working towards other goals at some point in the future.
The answer is no.
Why.
Because many people assume that what they've experienced in the past they're going to experience more
of in the future.
Right.
This is where the limiting beliefs and like I thing comes in.
All right.
So we've got to analyze and ask your clients when they're talking about the goals that they're that
they're setting.
Are they specific.
Right.
What's the actual goal specifically what is the details.
What's the reason for this more evasion.
Why are you driven to pursue this goal.
How are you going to measure it right.
How are you going to be able to gauge the progress that you make and what's your milestones.
Short term goals medium term goals long term goals.
What's the main override invasion.
How are you going to know when you get there.
How are you going to know when you start to make progress.
How are you going to know when you start to make a difference.
This isn't for us to determine.
It's for us to ask the questions so that they can actually seriously think about their goals and establish
what the honest answers are for themselves.
Is this goal actually achievable.
And if so if even if it is a massive massive massive goal.
Fantastic.
Let's let's just put a time frame around this.
All right let's look at realistically how long it's going to take to achieve this goals.
If you want to save all the whales and the planet cool how many years do you need to be able to do this.
If you want to save all the trees fantastic how many decades is gonna be required to save the trees.
How many people are you going to need to save the trees.
What's your first step.
What's your action steps.
The goals should measure outcomes not activity so what to save all the trees look like.
How will you know once you've saved all the whales.
I'm using some crazy out their ideas and but hopefully just to really put a point across that unless
our client is looking at the practical steps that need to be taken to actually bring their goals to
fruition and the goals are just nothing more than nice ideas.
Right.
And people are never going to be motivated just to make every single nice idea that pops into their
head happen.
Sometimes people will clutch on tonight's ideas kind of like ideals.
Why.
Because they don't actually have a vision for the life.
They don't actually have any actual tangible pragmatic set of goals established for the seven main areas
of their life because no one's ever guided them through the process.
But when we start breaking life down into the seven different areas such as personal finances routine
responsibilities and my personal finances are an absolute shambles.
That's fantastic.
OK so what is it that you actually want to accomplish in this area.
Well you know I just do want to get to the end of each month being Brooke.
OK.
Fantastic.
And why is this important.
Why.
Because I can't afford the little luxuries in life.
Sometimes I can't afford to buy my children the things that I really want to buy them or sometimes and
I can't afford to take my mom out for lunch at the end of the month because I'm Brooke doing these things
that are actually really important to me.
So now we have a motivation.
OK.
So how are you going to be able to measure this goal.
Well again let's just look at practically will sell Opal plan in place to set milestones.
So maybe once we have a certain amount of money put away in savings each month then when you have so
much money when set awareness Evans then you can take your money out for lunch or then you can buy the
child that gift is the goal achievable.
And if so how.
What action steps are you going to start implementing and building into your life right away to make
this happen.
Yeah I'm talking to you as a life coach here.
All right.
So you can get sharper in your goal goals and process because unless you get a sharper and you're on
goal setting process you become more grounded and disciplined within yourself.
Then how on earth are you going to be able to gain and coach your clients through the same process my
friend.
All right.
So this is the smart setting.
Certain framework.
Very very simple but it's just five very straight forward sets of questions that we want to be using
to analyze and critique every goal that our clients claim to have.
But again we want to be applying this to the goals that we set ourselves in our own life to.
It just allows us to really get thinking about what the honest answers are to who we need to become
and the action steps that we actually need to start taking right away.
If these goals are going to become a tangible reality you with me is this all right.
It saves the goal setting process remaining this airy fairy wishy washy thing.
All right.
That many people many people see it as being sold before this idea helpful is just an idea that you
can build into your goal a certain process.
But it's not the process within itself.
It's more of a framework that you can use for asking yourself or your clients questions in relation
to the goals that he set you with me.
Just all right.
Fantastic.
I sure look forward to seeing you again in the next clip.