Me First

How to set and smash audacious goals

It’s time to move from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat in your life — after all, this is what Me First is all about. Goal setting is an unbelievably powerful way to do this, and it will also help you:

• gain clarity over the long-term vision for your life
• gain a powerful injection of short-term motivation
• prioritise tasks
• stay single-focused, determined and single-minded
• reject what is wasting your time
• delegate what someone else can do faster, better and cheaper than you
• say ‘no’ to distractions.

It is really worth taking the time to do this right because the research is clear: the act of considering, writing down and then sharing your goals means you are more likely to achieve your goals.

What other women say

I have New Year’s Resolutions, but inevitably they fall away. I think I need to have real goals rather than aspirational goals.

Carmel Mulhern

Goal setting with The 5 SMART Steps

Let’s set your audacious five-year goals. The 5 SMART Steps framework that you are now familiar with can also be used to help you set and smash your goals.

Exercise 1: Self-aware

Your goals need to closely align to your values. You already know that having absolute clarity over the values that drive you is central to deciding where you should — and should not — invest your time. This is great news because you have already done a lot of work on your values and you know exactly what they are!

1. List your values here:

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