What's Your Plan to Achieve Your Goals for 2012?

Last week, I did my first in-person workshop on  at "The Coop" -- the headquarters for the . It went fantastic! We followed these four basic steps:

1. Decide what categories within your life you’d like to examine and create evaluation criteria.
2. Reflect over the previous year and take stock of your accomplishments and shortfalls.
3. Make goals for the new year to change or improve upon whatever is keeping you from living your best, most authentic life.
4. Create a detailed plan for how to achieve your new goals.

Everyone left inspired and eager to put their detailed plan for how to achieve their goals to work -- including myself.

While I was preparing the workshop, I realized that while I had followed steps one through three for myself, (see my posts on step 1, step 2 and step 3), I had not completed step four.

And step four is the most crucial step! Eighty-eight percent of New Year's resolutions and goals fail because people don't do step No. 4! Most people just state their goal (a simple version of step 3), but they don't take any steps to plan and prepare a map for success.

Upon this grave error, I set to work immediately outlining my detailed plan to achieve my 2012 goals.

The key to a detailed plan is that you answer all the major questions of your goals: the who, what, where, when, why and how. The "why" is most important because it's your motivation foundation. It should be addressed in the stated goal. For example: Excel in New Job (Why?) To Grow Professionally

Here's my plan:

Excel in New Job to Grow Professionally

• Be proactive in assisting with projects and asking for help as much as possible
• Participate in Labs group before the end of the year
• Absorb as much information as possible

Graduate From the Institute of Integrative Nutrition® to Be a Formally Trained Holistic Health Coach

• Follow syllabus
• Schedule a minimum of half an hour every day in the evenings or afternoon for school
• Complete all graduation requirements by May deadline

Get 5 New Clients to Grow My Holistic Health Coaching Practice

• Talk in person or over the phone to at least one potential referral partner per month
• Continue hosting  once a month at  or The Shore
• Send monthly newsletters (Sign up for my newsletter here to get recipes, advice, tips and special offers.)
• Maintain blog and Patch posting schedule once a week

Join Toastmasters to Reduce My Public Speaking Anxiety

• Go to a  on Tuesday night at the community center
• Participate in meetings biweekly

Start and Run a Monthly Meetup Group to Meet New Fun, Ambitious Women

• Create the Tenacious Ladies group and events on Meetup.com
• Invite members to join
• Send reminders for meetings
• Hold meetings

Conduct 6 Teleclasses or In-Person Workshops to Grow Holistic Health Coaching Practice

• Offered first workshop
• Offer one teleclass or workshop (in person or online) every other month

Write 1 Guest Post or Freelance Article Per Month to Grow Health Coaching Practice

• Seek appropriate media channels accepting submissions
• Submit at least three pitches/proposals per month

Stick to a Weekly Posting Schedule to Grow Holistic Health Coaching Practice

• Submit week’s post by Sunday of each week (Sundays are my deadline day)

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What steps or plans are you taking toward some of your goals this week?