You have a vision or goal that you want to achieve and you know the blueprint is an important part of achieving that ! You are now in planning mode and you want to make sure your plan includes all the elements to achieve your goals.

This Planning Guide includes:ü SMART Goals Worksheetü Action Plan Worksheetü Ways to Manage Distractionsü Ideas to Celebrate Your Goal Achievement

The success of achieving your goals starts with your blueprint and you now have the worksheets and tools to help you!

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LET’S GET TO WORK!

1. Plan to spend at least an hour creating your blueprint. Depending on how detailed you want to make your plan, it might take more than an hour; however, details don’t mean perfection. Don’t plan your plan to death. Create the plan and work it.

2. Make your environment planning friendly! Cool music, great lighting and snacks are one way. Find what works for you.

3. Make sure you have everything you need: your printed worksheets, your calendar, and any notes or information regarding the goals you want to set.

4. This is not an essential item, but colored pens and pencils can add tremendously to your blueprint process. Color can bring your blueprint to life. Not required, but definitely an extra added plus.

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN

WHY SET A GOAL?A vision helps you concentrate on where you should spend your time and energy. Move away from the vague ‘shoulds’ and ‘wishes’ to definites and guarantees.

CREATING YOUR GOALWhen creating your goal, you want to make sure they are SMART.

SPECIFICI want to have more people in my database is not a good goal because it is not specific. A specific goal would be “At the end of six months, I will have 300 people in my email database.” After six months, you will know if you have specifically met your goal. Specific goals help you be clear about what you want.

MEASURABLEHow will you know I have achieved my goals? A measurable goal would be “I will write and send one thank you card per week this month.” At month’s end, you will be able to evaluate whether or not you met that goal. That goal was measurable because it was specific and had a time frame.

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SMART GOALS

ATTAINABLEOur goals need to be reasonable and reachable. Be careful, however, not to set goals too low as challenging goals force us to grow. Strike a balance between these two extremes as you set your goals around priorities.

RELEVANTMake sure your goals are relevant. If you set your goals around your vision and your priorities, there is a better chance of meeting your goal. Goals that are random or have no alignment to your purpose or priority are likely to be goals that are not completed.

TIMELYSet a timeframe you would like to see your goal accomplished. Timing will keep you on track and give you a beginning and an end.

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SMART GOALS (cont’d)

WRITE IT DOWN Studies show that you are 42% more likely to achieve your goal and vision when you write it down. Keeping your goal in your head keeps it as an idea. When you write it down, it takes your goal from the subconscious and tells your conscious mind, you really mean it.

For this purpose, you can use several electronic goal setting apps. However, paper and pen (colored pens) work just as well. The exercise of physically writing it down gives your goal life.

Write It Down.

Use the worksheet on the next page to create your own SMART goal.

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#1 RULE OF GOAL SETTING

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SMART GOAL WORKSHEET

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ACTION PLAN WORKSHEET

Emails1. Schedule a block of time each day to send and respond to emails.

2. Turn off the alert that lets you know you have a new email and determine what time you will check and respond to email.

3. Unsubscribe from email lists you don’t need.

4. Set up separate email accounts for your personal and professional email. This way you are not spending time reading through advertisements, coupons, jokes or personal correspondence. Schedule a time to do that.

5. Avoid “skimming and skipping”. You think you’ll get back to it later but later results in an inbox that is never empty. If there is something that needs to be done, schedule the task and keep going through your emails. Once that task is complete, archive or trash the email. Keep your inbox as clean as possible.

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WAYS TO MANAGE DISTRACTIONS

Phone1. When you are working on a task, turn your phone to silent. You will not get distracted by the

sound of the phone or feel the vibration if the phone’s on silent when you’re focusing on the task at hand.

2. Schedule a time to check your voicemail and return all calls. You may schedule a morning block of time and an afternoon block of time but respond during those times only. Tell people in your outgoing message when you will be responding to their calls.

3. If you agree to do something during your phone conversation, immediately act on it (if it’s something small) or schedule the task so that you honor your commitment.

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WAYS TO MANAGE DISTRACTIONS (cont’d)

Social Media1. Create a self-imposed deadline. If you know you browse Pinterest or Facebook, give yourself a

time limit to engage. If staying engaged is an integral part of your business, schedule time and stick to the schedule.

2. Sign off your social media accounts and disable auto login. Signing in every time you have to browse your social media will at least make you think about whether this is a good time to be browsing.

3. Remember, the time you spend looking at what everybody else is doing, takes away from the tasks you should be doing for YOU.

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WAYS TO MANAGE DISTRACTIONS (cont’d)

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SCHEDULE WORKSHEET / VERSION 1

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SCHEDULE WORKSHEET / VERSION 2

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SCHEDULE WORKSHEET / VERSION 3

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GO BUILD! AND CELEBRATE AS YOU GO

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