Where You Need to Focus

To reach your goals more quickly, the one thing you need to focus on is your Push Goal.  But NOTE this: your Push Goal IS NOT your most important goal.  Let’s be clear about the difference and how to identify your Push Goal, so you can place your focus there and achieve ALL of your goals more quickly!

 

Your Most Important Goal

Your most important goal is the one that’s nearest and dearest to your heart, the one that’s going to give you the greatest joy and happiness, the one you think about happening and picture how it will improve your life.  Your most important goal is different from your Push Goal.

 

Your Push Goal

Your Push Goal is the goal that makes most of the others on your list of 10 goals for the year possible.  The only way to identify this goal is by writing out the things you want to have happen in the next year.  You don’t have to wait until January 1st to write out your goals for the year.  As a matter of fact, I recommend getting into the habit of doing this often…maybe even once a week!

 

Identifying Your Push Goal

There’s no time like the present!  So, take out a pen and piece of paper and list ten things that you want to have happen in the next year.  If you come up with three or four and hit a road block, think of all the important areas of your life: your health and fitness, relationships, family, environment, financial status, your purpose, leisure and hobby activities, etc.  What 10 things would you LOVE to see happen in your life this year?

Take a look at that list, and once you decide what’s most important to you, determine which of the items on your list will make it happen.  Which goal, if reached, would make your most important goal come to fruition?

 

An Example

Here’s an example: The past year, my most important goal was to spend more time with my family and take a month off from work.  While spending time with my family was most important to me, my Push Goal – the one I needed to focus on – was making my book PUSH a New York Times Best Seller, so I would have the financial resources to take a month off work to spend more time with my family.

Make sense?  So here’s what you need to do:

1 – Take out a pen and piece of paper, and make a list of 10 things you want to have happen this year.

2 – Identify which one of those is going to be the catalyst for all the others.  Rather than focusing on your most important goal, zone in on the one that will be the domino that knocks all the others over.  THIS is your Push Goal.

3 – FOCUS on your Push Goal!

It’s as simple as that!  You can do anything you set your mind to – all you need is a plan!