Simple Step By Step Goal Setting I've Successfully Used Over the Last 12 Years | My 2021 Goals Revealed

Happy New Years! Now that the celebrating is over and you’ve told everyone on social media how this will be your year…reality is setting in, right? Well don’t fret because I’m here to help you actually make that statement come true. I’ve always been a goal-oriented person and can vividly remember writing up little goals for my lemonade stand or trading card collection when I was a young kid. I never had any formalized method of goal setting until 2009 when I was getting ready to finish up my last semester of graduate school. I remember reading an article where some expert talked about goals, and the systems to achieve them. It seemed logical to an MBA student, so I decided to "steal" its basics and apply it to what I had been already doing informally. While I don’t particularly think my yearly goal setting is anything fancy and it's not full of technological hacks or mindset tricks, it has worked immensely well for me because it’s rooted in simplicity and focuses on creating impactful results. I will share my simple step by step goal setting process, but also reveal a few of my 2021 goals in each category; Professional, Personal, and Learning.