Clarify Your Goals

Copy the questions below into a document and then use them to brainstorm possibilities and then distill your goals. They are designed to be pondered and to stimulate your thinking so don’t rush through.

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1. If you were to dream big, specifically in your area of responsibility at work, what would you be ecstatic to achieve?

2. What problems hold you and your team back from reaching your potential?

3. Imagine you had zero responsibility for daily operations and your only job was to ensure that you, your department, and your company are all dramatically more successful three years from now. What would you focus on?

4. How could you translate your answers above into succinct goals?

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5. What actionable projects would lead to the completion of these goals?

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6. What numeric measures could you use to make success crystal clear?

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7. At an experiential level, why bother with these goals? How would you hope that your day-to-day work would change as a result of achieving them?