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Three Steps to Getting Your Goals Back on Target

Written by: Keith Ferrazzi

Article Overview: We're more than a month into 2009. Is anyone experiencing goal drift? Here are three steps to get yourself refocused and enlist your network to help you.

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Three Steps to Getting Your Goals Back on Target

We're more than a month into 2009. Is anyone experiencing goal drift? Here are three steps to get yourself refocused and enlist your network to help you.

1. Get your priorities straight: Review why your goal is worth working toward. Create a list of reasons and share it with a friend or colleague (or with the folks on Greenlight Community).
2. Reassess your obligations: What should you take off your plate, because it's not serving your goals?
3. Draft new resources: Have you gotten caught in a trap of thinking you have to do it all yourself? Analyze the process and your network to see which tasks -- either those related to your goal or those that are distracting you -- might be farmed out.

This is a great exercise -- don't just do it once, repeat it every month. Over time your goals may shift, but it'll be because you've consciously refined them. What's important is that you've got your eye on a solid target.

Need an extra jolt of motivation? Remember Emerson's line: The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.


Fondly,
Keith

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About the Author: Keith Ferrazzi
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Widely hailed as one of the world’s most “connected” people, Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone, the international bestselling book about building relationships for success. Ferrazzi is also an acclaimed speaker and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a consulting and professional development firm that helps organizations drive growth through relationships. Earlier in his career, he was chief marketing officer at Deloitte Consulting and the youngest to be tapped for partner in the firm's history. Then, upon joining Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Ferrazzi was the youngest CMO in the Fortune 500. He also served as CEO of YaYa Media before founding Ferrazzi Greenlight.

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