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7.1 Step 5: Review your Action Plan and Goals
Why Monitor and Review?
Goal setting is a dynamic process. Over the long term, your vision will change - goals you had when you were a kid were different to those as a teenager because your needs change, and so does your situation in life. You may recall the Australian TV advertisement that surmises success in your 20’s is making out, success in your 30’s is taking a break, success in your 40’s is making money, success in your 50’s is making more money, success in your 60’s is taking a break and success in your 70’s is making out.
So, it is good practice to go through the whole goal setting process (yes, go through the whole thing again) every year or 2 and at least every 5 years, or if your life takes a sudden change in direction – for example, starting a family – to ensure you are always chasing the right ‘Big-Picture’.
You can monitor the current ‘truth’ in your goal-setting journey by periodically reviewing your Life Aspect Mind Map and SWOT analysis – the important thing to ask yourself in this case is “does this still apply to me or has it changed?”. By doing this you will pick up any early signs that your life is wanting to take a different journey to the one you’ve planned, and this is perfectly normal and in fact expected as your life progresses. The key thing is not to see a change in plans as a failure, it’s just a refocusing exercise.
Even short term goals need to be flexible enough to accommodate things that are out of your control (for example, other priorities on your time), or even things that are in your control but you just underestimated during your goal setting exercise (for example, underestimating how long it takes to quit a habit). Don’t worry if your goals don’t go exactly according to your action plan, as long as you’re making progress in the right direction and make sure you update your action plan to suit so that it is still meaningful to you for achieving your goal. Remember the SMARTER components of your goal always need to apply.
Goal setting is a dynamic process. Over the long term, your vision will change - goals you had when you were a kid were different to those as a teenager because your needs change, and so does your situation in life. You may recall the Australian TV advertisement that surmises success in your 20’s is making out, success in your 30’s is taking a break, success in your 40’s is making money, success in your 50’s is making more money, success in your 60’s is taking a break and success in your 70’s is making out.
So, it is good practice to go through the whole goal setting process (yes, go through the whole thing again) every year or 2 and at least every 5 years, or if your life takes a sudden change in direction – for example, starting a family – to ensure you are always chasing the right ‘Big-Picture’.
You can monitor the current ‘truth’ in your goal-setting journey by periodically reviewing your Life Aspect Mind Map and SWOT analysis – the important thing to ask yourself in this case is “does this still apply to me or has it changed?”. By doing this you will pick up any early signs that your life is wanting to take a different journey to the one you’ve planned, and this is perfectly normal and in fact expected as your life progresses. The key thing is not to see a change in plans as a failure, it’s just a refocusing exercise.
Even short term goals need to be flexible enough to accommodate things that are out of your control (for example, other priorities on your time), or even things that are in your control but you just underestimated during your goal setting exercise (for example, underestimating how long it takes to quit a habit). Don’t worry if your goals don’t go exactly according to your action plan, as long as you’re making progress in the right direction and make sure you update your action plan to suit so that it is still meaningful to you for achieving your goal. Remember the SMARTER components of your goal always need to apply.
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