You’ll be ready to answer questions and you’ll have an advantage over others which have not prepared for their future. This course of action will help you to be prepared for what comes next. As you plan you will put together a course of action. Planning how you accomplish them is a valuable exercise for your business growth and development. Planning takes many different shapes and sizes and as you create this roadmap for accomplishing your goals you will find your planning is offering you great direction.īusiness direction allows you to plan for a course of action you will take to accomplish your goals. Planning a direction for your project or business involves creating a roadmap. If you start creating your goals in the first step and organize them accordingly what you’ll find is you’ve begun to take the first step towards creating a roadmap. This roadmap is what we’ll look at in our next point. Writing these goals out and organizing them into these three categories (of course you can use more if you like) will give you the great beginnings to a roadmap. These are the big picture goals and long-term aspirations you hold for your project. These goals are much more abstract and contain more figurative type of language. The last goal type is the long-term goal. Ultimately each of these mid-term goals are concrete, well-defined goals which can be directly actioned. This is the broadest time scope and can vary in degree of difficulty. The mid-term goals are things you’d like to accomplish in the next few weeks or months.
These goals are quick, easy to accomplish and relatively simple goals. Short-term goals are those items you would like to see done in the next 2-3 days. Some of the more popular include creating three goal types, short-term, mid-term, and long-term. There are a couple of different strategies when working on goals. When you sit down and write out what you want to accomplish you will be surprised how this goal structure lends itself to creating a plan for accomplishing them. One of the most beneficial aspect of planning is in creating goals to accomplish.
> This post has received a second part, read part 2 next. Let’s look briefly at 5 reasons planning is important. Planning is vitally important to success. The truth of the matter is much less glamorous and much more realistic. Some of the greatest companies that have been termed overnight success came from a very different background. Unfortunately this notion of instant success is more myth than fact. Or, even better, that it might be their idea. There is something glamorous about the idea that the next day it might be something new. Everyone loves to point out those projects which are immensely popular and claim they were overnight success stories.