Welcome to the five-part analysis of The Power of Projects. This is Part III of V. You can find Part I here, Part II here, Part IV here, and Part V here.
This article presents several values and perspectives:
The Importance of Goals in Projects: This article emphasizes the role of goals as checkpoints in the journey of a project. They serve as markers ensuring we’re on the right path towards project completion.
Life as a Series of Projects: This article encourages viewing aspects of our lives as projects. For instance, improving health can be seen as a project with measurable goals like changing diet, increasing mobility, and eliminating waste.
Weekly Goals: This article suggests setting weekly goals for each project to maintain focus and track progress. This strategy helps to overcome distractions and implement new ways of doing things.
Introduction
When we talk about goals, we’re essentially talking about checkpoints along the journey of a project. If a project is a colossal task broken down into smaller parts, then goals and milestones are the markers that ensure we’re on the right path towards project completion.
Goals serve as excellent benchmarks to guide us, but they must be SMART. When we talk about SMART goals, we’re referring to the acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. But for now, let’s focus on two aspects: Specific and Measurable. By ensuring that our goals are specific (i.e., this is what we want to accomplish) and by ensuring we have benchmarks to measure against progress and completion (i.e.,g measurable goals), we ensure that our project is moving towards completion rather than just being a figment of our imagination.
This understanding is crucial when we start to view aspects of our lives as projects. For instance, let’s consider health. If our health is not in the best condition and we want to improve it, what do we do? The projects we undertake could include changing our diet, becoming more mobile, and eliminating waste. Each of these projects must have measurable goals that allow us to track our progress.
One thing I’ve learned from personal experience is that goals can be challenging to meet simply due to the distractions of life itself. It’s hard to implement a new way of doing things and staying focused on it. One strategy that comes to mind is the concept of a weekly goal. If we set a weekly goal for each project, we can focus our attention and efforts on that goal — the challenge here would be to ensure that we consistently pay attention to our weekly goals.
For example, if we have a health or career project, we must check our progress weekly to ensure we’re moving toward the goal.
Did we apply for enough jobs? Did we get enough steps in? Did we change our diet?
Having this goal for the week and working towards it lets us see if we’re trending in the right direction.
This approach not only ensures that our grand project of life continues to move forward but it also helps strengthen our unknown resource, a phenomenon we discuss in my book. This phenomenon powers manifestation, and it is the phenomenon of faith.
Stay tuned as we delve deeper into this in the next part of our journey.
PS: The concept of weekly goals is behind the article on the 12 Week Year, which I have covered earlier in my article, “A Millionaire Said, “Crazy Things Happen When You Keep The Promises You Make To Yourself.”
Questions To Reflect On
How can I apply the concept of SMART goals to my current projects?
What aspects of my life can I view as projects and what would be their respective goals?
How can setting weekly goals help me stay focused on my projects?
How can I track my progress towards my goals effectively?
Action Items and Next Steps
Identify an aspect of your life that you’d like to improve, view it as a project, and set SMART goals for it.
This week, look to implement the strategy of setting weekly goals for your project and regularly track your progress towards these goals.
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