This document discusses achieving goals through setting 3 daily goals: 1) A breakthrough goal which is a major goal for the year broken into daily steps; 2) A key goal for the month/quarter also broken into daily steps; 3) A reluctant goal which is a chore reframed as a goal and broken into daily steps. It emphasizes the importance of scheduling time each day to work on the goals and protecting that time from distractions to stay focused on achieving the 3 daily goals. Regularly achieving the daily goals helps make progress on larger breakthrough and key goals over time.

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3-Goal Daily Achievement
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2. 3-Goal Daily Achievement Revealed
Three different types of goal
1. Breakthrough Goal
A breakthrough goal is BIG GOAL. It's something you'd put at the top of your appraisal
document for the year ahead. It is one of your main goals for the year. It will create the
biggest value and make the most impact. It’s likely to be demanding, difficult or
complex. It is a goal that will make you immensely proud once achieved.
A proven way to achieve such BREAKTHROUGH goals is to set daily concrete steps to
build your way to success. Break down your BIG breakthrough goal into:
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• Specific
• Actionable goal steps
• That you can realistically accomplish within a day.
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Setting daily goals focuses your efforts. The Breakthrough goal soon becomes less
daunting and feels more achievable. This is the formula for boosting your
Performance. It’s a direct route to success.
The next step is to schedule time in your day to tackle this goal. Make an appointment
with yourself to complete the goal. Guard this time as if it were a meeting with a VIP
stakeholder. As Steven Covey said:
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“Schedule your priorities. If it’s important, it must be scheduled. What you don’t schedule
won’t get done.”
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2.. Key Goal
The Key Goal is something important for this month or quarter. It would not make as
big a headline as the breakthrough goal, but it’s still very important for you and the
business. It’s probably more ‘routine’ than a Breakthrough goal, but it’s still something
that might take persistent effort over some days and weeks to achieve.
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Again, the best approach to achieving your Key Goal is to set daily concrete steps to
build your way to success. Setting daily goals focuses your efforts. You then need to
schedule time in the day. It might only be an hour, but as you become more
experienced, you quickly develop a feeling for how much time you actually need for
each of your 3 daily goals.
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3. The Reluctant Goal
Becoming side tracked is not a trivial matter- it undermines performance and hampers
delivery. In her 2013 book, ‘Sidetracked’, behavioural scientist Professor Francesca
Gino, of Harvard Business School, explored the unexpected forces that keep people
from following through with their plans. She concluded that three different sets of
forces influence our decisions in ways we commonly fail to anticipate:
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1. Forces from within ourselves
2. Forces from our relationships with others
3. Forces from the outside world.
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Be honest, do you sometimes find your day is being ruled by your Inbox?
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People often welcome the opportunity to become sidetracked when they face tasks
that are difficult, tedious and unwelcome. Or, you might be procrastinating about
something that you’ve not done before and are simply uncertain how to tackle it.
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Research has shown that goal setting helps people structure their work and avoid
becoming distracted. That’s why GPS goaltrak introduces the discipline of the
Reluctant goal. This reframes a ‘chore’ as a GOAL. Again, you can chunk this down into
daily manageable steps. Next, schedule time to complete it within the day. In some
cases, you don’t need to break this type of goal into micro steps. With focused effort,
you can comfortably nail a whole Reluctant Goal within just part of one day!
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What about the rest of your daily demands?
Each day, you will have many other commitments. For example; recurring meetings,
travel, smaller to-do items, phone calls, email. There will also be those unexpected
urgent requests. You will still need to cater for many of these activities. In time, assisted
by nuggets from GPS goaltrak, you’ll discover strategies to reduce these.
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When writing and allocating time for each of your 3 daily goals, you’ll need to take
these factors into account. The art is to define REALISTIC goal steps that you can
achieve within part of your day. This means you can’t allocate the whole day to your
goals. You know better than anyone how much time you can dedicate to 3-goal
achievement. This will vary each day.
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The challenge is to create as much time as you can and protect it. Once you
experience the flow of 3-goal daily achievement you’ll quickly get into the groove and
enjoy boosted performance and success.
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