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Insert Your Goals Into Your Weekly Schedule

4/14/2017

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How can you make accomplishing your goals a regular part of your weekly schedule?

Goals: Insert Your Goals Into Your Weekly Schedule

​You have nailed down your priorities and you have formulated a list of SMART Goals. Now it is time to take those goals and incorporate them into your daily and weekly schedule. 
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​There are many ways of doing this, and much depends on your actual goals and your lifestyle. A single college student will have far more control over their time than a homeschooling mother of 8 children. However, the Weekly Time Schedule will give anyone, with any life-style, the ability to control where their time goes.  

This can be compared to a financial budget. People without a budget have very little control over where their money is going. But people who consistently live by a budget can exercise very high levels of control over how their money is spent. They control the money instead of the money controlling them. This is true for our time as well. With a consistently kept schedule, you will know when breakfast is served, when you exercise, when you work, and when you have family devotions each day. In addition, you can share your weekly schedule with those who need to keep up with your plans.

We want to incorporate our goals into our weekly schedule by making time for accomplishing them. If you have made actionable, specific, time-bound goals, this task will be fairly easy for you.  

While reading over your goals, determine which ones you should work on daily, which ones weekly, and which ones only monthly. For instance, you may have a goal to exercise 5-6 times a week for 45 minutes. Place that on your weekly schedule for the days you will exercise. Maybe you have a presentation you will be giving in a couple of months at a large conference and one of your goals is to prepare for that conference. Mark out an hour during the week when you will be preparing for your presentation. 

You will want to use this weekly schedule in conjunction with a daily calendar for best success. The Weekly Schedule gives you the rough outline of your week. Your daily calendar (such as a Franklin Planner or a Day Timer) will help you accomplish the specific goals you have for each day. For instance, the person who is preparing for the conference will break the presentation preparation down into smaller, concrete units (i.e., make an outline, prepare the handout, create a Power Point slideshow) and write those on their daily calendar or planner during the slot allotted to their conference preparation time.  

The better you become at using a calendar or a planner, the more successful you will be at accomplishing your goals. Anything that is truly important to you should have its place on your Weekly Time Schedule.

The Goal Setting Series:
Goal Setting Part One
Goal Setting Part Two
Goal Setting Part Three
1 Comment
Alan Millage
1/4/2022 04:49:13 pm

I am very excited to have found this website. My wife and I had decided a few months back that we are going to begin to "Life Goal Set". Yes, we have been married for quite a few years and never once thought about it. However, we both are educated, hold good professional positions, and have managed people in many different situations. GOAL setting seemed to be a part of our every day professional lives. While on a 10 week couples study, we came to a realization that we should utilize some of our professional "management" tools to help us in our personal lives as well. After a few prayers and talking to a couple in our small group, it was decided we go forth. Initially we honestly did think this might be a crazy (I will even say "dumb") idea. Then we came across your website!! Woot, woot!! So, here we are - I would like to see if you have or can point me to different categories of focus. I ready your 3-steps and agree 100% with them, but feeling it would be good to get some ideas on categories.

Any help is appreciated!

Alan

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