- Start with the end in mind;
- Know what you want to do to start;
- Continue to pull information and try things you never thought about;
- Interrupt the process and ask if what you are doing is enough or go forward;
- Step back and see if you like what you have done.
No, this information wasn’t handed down by a wise sage, it wasn’t from a book, nor was it from any type of goal setting program.
These goal setting steps were exemplified by a… florist I met while picking up some gifts for the Easter holiday. Let’s put the 5 steps back in the florist’s frame:
- Start with the end in mind- what was my budget, was I looking for a display piece or something to hand someone, was the recipient local or in a different city, was it for an individual or for a group of people.
- Know what you want to do to start- (I have no clue about flowers nonetheless how it should be arranged) What was the recipients favorite flower? color? big or small-
- take one first action and build the rest around it.
- Continue to pull information and try thing you never thought about- we went through the whole store mixing and matching to get something that looked good and fit with what the end in mind was.
- Interrupt the process and ask if what you are doing is enough or go forward- since I had no clue what I wanted/needed we stopped the process to see if we were going in the right direction on numerous occasions. We each gave our input and made adjustments along the way.
- Step back and see if you like what you have done- Once it looked like what we both had in mind was completed. We took a step back to look at the whole rather than the parts to make sure the end in mind from Step 1 was actually the end in mind.
A little too intense for a visit to the florist? Think about this… patterns and examples like this that apply to your lives occur more often than you think, because they are constant and never change. Seek the patterns throughout all your experiences and apply accordingly.
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