A Fun Way to Make Goal Setting Enjoyable

‘The quote: ‘Without a vision the people perish’ makes me think of the perished rubber band I found a couple of days ago. It had lost its colour, had completely lost its flexibility and elasticity, and was totally useless. I threw it away.

During January, I’ve met a few people with a vision like this rubber band. Their answer to ‘What plans do you have for 2009?’ is answered with “Oh, I don’t know. Probably just the same as last year. We’ll just wait and see what happens.” A perished vision for life.

Knowing about something, agreeing with that knowledge is one thing. Taking action on that knowledge is often quite another!

And when it comes to thinking about and writing up my vision for 2009 I have to admit I’ve been a little slow off the mark. I know the benefits of goal setting but doing it?

So when Peter, my husband, suggested that we make an event of goal setting for 2009 by going away for the weekend to the village of Montville, I eagerly jumped at the idea.

We agreed together that the focus of the weekend would be to nut out goals etc but the immediate rewards would be dinner at Poets, window shopping in the quaint shops - maybe a buy or two :), walks and relaxing in the cottage.

It was a great idea and by the end of Sunday, we both had our beliefs, values, goals and mission statements written down.

So, here’s a little video of our weekend away.

Perhaps it will entice you to do something similar if you also have a resistance to writing up your goals. It doesn’t have to be costly - perhaps go on a picnic, visit the beach, a day trip to a beautiful place. Make an event of it and enjoy!

Cheers

Carolyn