As a
Professional Legal Nurse Consultant, you wear many hats, including that of business owner and developer. So, it is your responsibility to keep your business moving forward toward the goals that you wish to reach.
What goals, you ask? You DO have business goals, don’t you?
If not, how will you know where you are going? How will you know if you get there?
If you want to go and to grow, you need goals. Setting them can seem daunting, so let’s break it down into manageable steps. In this post, we’ll cover the basic guidelines and the first two major steps.
While this is geared toward setting goals for your business, keep in mind that the rules can be applied universally to set goals in any area of your life.
Let’s begin:
First, we’ll cover a few goal-setting guidelines.
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Remember that this is about the journey, not the destination. This may seem counterintuitive to the whole goal setting process, but goals are only milestones along the way. Think about the mile marker signs on a highway. These are how goals work. They act as a marker to let you know where you are in relation to where you began.
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Still using the mile marker signs as an example, like them, your goals need to be measurable. You want to have a way to know if you have reached that marker. If the goal does not lend itself to measurement, give it a 1-10 rating and set the level you want to reach on that scale. Are you at a 2 but wish to be at an 8? Then you have work to do. But you also have a way to gauge your progress.
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Finally, your goals should be written down. Committing goals, dreams and ideas to paper has a certain magic about it. No, not witchcraft type magic, but the magic of making them more real, more concrete. And if you look at them every day, you will internalize these goals, which will in turn make reaching them easier.
So, now to the FUN part of the process.
Let’s start big.
How do you want to be remembered? Answer this question not only in regard to your business, but to the other important areas of your life. Do you want to be remembered as a workaholic who never had time for family and friends? Or would you like to be remembered as a successful businessperson and human being? Write down what you hope people will say about you after you are gone.
Now, think about what success means to you. People have different ideas of success. While we may want some basic things the same, such as financial security (if it exists), the specific definitions of such terms vary with the individual. Do you want to be wealthy? What does that mean? A millionaire? A billionaire? All of your debts paid off and plenty of money to make ends meet? Or does it refer to your personal and business relationships and their depth? Write this down, also. Define success for yourself. Not what you think it should be because of what popular culture or your upbringing tells you, but what you feel deep in your gut. Take all the time and space you need to get this definition right for you. No one has to see this but you.
