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    Practical Thinking on Goal Setting: Notes and Musings
    Practical Thinking on Goal Setting: Notes and Musings
    Practical Thinking on Goal Setting: Notes and Musings
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    Practical Thinking on Goal Setting: Notes and Musings

    By Mark Milotay

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    In my ongoing research on goal setting and my interaction with goal seekers around the world I have found many who are not looking for a system, but tips and techniques to augment their current approach or are just looking for general ideas on goal setting to help them along. I decided that I would take my Quora answers, blog posts and other miscellaneous musings about goal setting and make them available as a book for people who are interested in short writings and insights on goal setting.

    This book gives you a glimpse into my philosophy and approach to goal setting, as well as some tips and tricks to help you out. It is not a complete system for goal setting and achieving goals, for that you need to read Practical Goal Setting - A guide for real people who want to live unreal lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Milotay
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9781503341685
    Practical Thinking on Goal Setting: Notes and Musings
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    Mark Milotay

    Mark Milotay is a father, husband, author, entrepreneur, and beekeeper. While the majority of his career has had a technology bent to it, his focus has always been on work and projects to improve people's lives. He lives on his urban small holding on Vancouver Island with his wife, four children, 11 chickens, and 300,000 bees.

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      Practical Thinking on Goal Setting - Mark Milotay

      Introduction

      In my ongoing research on goal setting and my interaction with goal seekers around the world I have found many who are not looking for a system, but tips and techniques to augment their current approach or are just looking for general ideas on goal setting to help them along. I decided that I would take my Quora answers, blog posts and other miscellaneous musings about goal setting and make them available as a book for people who are interested in short writings and insights on goal setting.

      This book gives you a glimpse into my philosophy and approach to goal setting, as well as some tips and tricks to help you out. It is not a complete system for goal setting and achieving goals, for that you need to read Practical Goal Setting - A guide for real people who want to live unreal lives.

      Work & Business

      How can businesses implement goal setting for their employees?

      The company has to create a culture of goal setting and it has to permeate all aspects of the organization. The organization needs to set a high level mission statement or goal that all of their actions align to. This high level goal has to also fit well with the business’s values and priorities. If a business isn’t clear on these, it will hamper their creation of the high level goal. Finally, they also need to help all of the employees set clear goals to achieve as part of their work and professional development, and these have to be in support of that top level goal.

      To support the staff in goal setting and working their goal plan, there are a number of things that need to happen. The first step is to make sure that their employees have the skills to know what they want to achieve, how to break it down into the necessary steps and then develop a plan. Then they need to give the employees the time to regularly track their progress, think and journal about how their plan is working, and to be accepting when a plan doesn't work. That last item is very important for both individual and organizational success. You must not punish staff when they have issues with achieving their plan. Instead for the benefit of the staff and the organization, challenges with achieving the goals need to be looked at learning and coaching opportunities. These lessons create new goals.

      By creating an goal plan for the business and then helping the staff to identify and build the plans for their parts in it, an organization can internalize goal setting as part of its fundamental culture, allowing it to stay focused and on track, while also having the ability to change course when a path toward that top level goal isn’t working.

      Do business owners have daily goals and/or hourly goals? If so, what are the goals they wish to accomplish?

      I have experience with business owners having daily goals, as they have distilled their plan down to the point where there are tasks due each day. I have not had any of the people I work with take their plan down to an hourly level. I could see that if they had to have a number of tiny tasks happen within a 24 hour period then they could get to that level in their plan and that would be fine. I can also see it making sense in that scenario, as they would have dependencies that have to be met during that period and an hourly model would support that. While I am a big fan of planning, I have never gone to an hourly level for personal or professional goal plans.

      I tend to build out the timelines for my goal plan in days, as it the lowest level of granularity I tend to go to. When developing a plan, if there are several small tasks that have to be completed, but take an hour or less, I will schedule them to be done on the same day and set the order that they are to be done in through dependencies.

      I could see a business having hourly sales goals, building this into their goal plan and then tracking to that throughout the day. These hourly goals would be sub-goals under a higher level goal of a daily sales total.

      What should you do when you're very unlikely to hit a big hairy goal for your start-up?

      Q.

      Everyone talks about setting aggressive goals. I'll bet most have more experience missing than hitting. As meeting that goal gets less likely every day, it can hurt morale. What do you do? Reset? Soldier on, miss and start again?

      A.

      There are three things that big hairy goals are good for. The first is to stretch yourself and your imagination. We get stuck in the day-to-day and it can be hard for us to envision opportunities outside of that. Big hairy goals give you that opportunity to dream. Your work on them can lead you to see new goals and opportunities that weren't evident when you were going down your previous

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