Do What Matters Most

6How to Develop Roles and Goals

This approach to goal setting—roles and goals—helps a person maintain balance, increase performance and productivity, and identify what matters most.

In Chapter 4, you developed a vision for each role. The vision is the strategic focus or internal compass that gives you direction and purpose for each of your roles. The roles and goals are the operational focus and help you specifically identify your targets for this year. The goals are the specific milestones or areas of focus this year toward realizing your vision. Although the vision is a feeling and an emotion, the goals are specific, and measurable. It is this process of working toward goals and pre-week planning that ultimately connects your daily actions ...