This document provides tips and strategies for setting and achieving goals in 2011. It discusses reviewing one's 2010 goals, overcoming procrastination, and being ready for goal success. It outlines steps for creating goals including knowing your motivations or "why", setting SMART goals, creating detailed plans, and taking action through structuring one's week and avoiding procrastination. The overall message is on dreaming big but also having clear, achievable goals and plans to guide progress towards dreams.

1. Make 2011 your best year ever Steve Scholey stevescholey@actioncoach.com 1

3. Studies show that 20% of population worldwide are chronic procrastinators where their procrastination has a serious impact on their productivity & happinessstevescholey@actioncoach.com 2

6. What would you do if money was no object? (such as winning the lottery)

7. What do you want your friends & family to say about you at your funeral?Knowing why you want to achieve your goals will give you motivation. With a big enough WHY we can overcome many obstacles (think of what Jane Tomlinson overcame to raise money for cancer research) “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off the goal” Henry Ford stevescholey@actioncoach.com 4

9. Balance the benefits of achieving the goal with a realistic assessment of the problems you might encounter along the way

10. Visualisation has been shown to be about 20% more effective if you visualise yourself as others see you (adopt a third person perspective)

11. Create a dream chart to remind you of your dreams but only use it when you are feeling positive about your goal (e.g. After you have successfully achieved one of your sub-goals). Using it when you are discouraged can lead you to believe that the goal is unobtainable and encourage you to give upstevescholey@actioncoach.com 5

13. To have a balanced life we need to have goals in each of the areas of our life (e.g. Father, husband, investor, entrepreneur, manager)

14. Goals should be written and shared (tell a friend & you’re more likely to succeed)

16. The obstacles you are likely to face

17. How you will overcome the obstacles

18. How you will know when you have achieved the goal (what will you see, feel, experience etc)

19. The reward you will get for achieving the overall goal

20. The rewards you will get for completing each step along the way stevescholey@actioncoach.com 6

24. Plans need to be short-term and practical. Detailed quarterly plans work best.

25. Set a theme for the quarter and make sure everyone knows what they need to do to help achieve the quarterly goal.

26. Break every goal down into short action steps. Action steps should ideally take 1 hour or less to complete

27. Review your plan regularly“Plans are nothing; planning is everything” Dwight D. Eisenhower stevescholey@actioncoach.com 8

29. Default Diary – block time for the important things or they won’t get done

30. Daily To Do lists – set 3 objectivesfor the next day before you finish each night

31. Eat a frog for breakfast – clear off a task you are dreading first thing and boost your energy for the day.

32. Friday Review - What worked? What could have gone better? What lessons carry forward into next week’s Monday Review?

33. Don’t beat yourself up just focus on getting better every weekPlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker stevescholey@actioncoach.com 9

35. Acknowledge that you probably won’t feel more like it tomorrow!

36. Accept that you don’t have to feel like it to do it!

37. Will power (self regulation) is like a muscle, it is easily fatigued but it can be developed

38. Create Implementation Intentions by deciding in advance what you will do in the situations where you know you will be tempted to put things off. E.g. I will switch off my phone, email & internet before sitting down to start the report

39. If we are not completely sure of the very next step we need to take we are likely to do nothing. Break tasks into the smallest pieces possible.

40. Get someone to hold you accountablestevescholey@actioncoach.com 10