Goals, Celebrate your accomplishments!

I did not realize when I was young that goals were already a part of my life.

Going to school and learning was a goal, without those steps it wouldn’t be possible to get where I am now. Just reading a book, for example, if you skip any parts, you will never know what the true story is about and when I had a test I wouldn’t be prepared because I wouldn’t know the answers. I quickly learned to read the book and then my tests were easy.

Just as in creating a goal, when you do the steps to get the goal, it is accomplished, and you have achieved it.

Celebrate your accomplishments! I learned that you must start somewhere taking the steps to get there. Like climbing a later, following steps A-Z, steps 1-10. Whatever your goal is remember you need a starting point and a finishing point. Everything in the middle will be the steps that get you there.

I remember starting Cosmetology school and looking at the plan from start to finish and the other things in between that I wanted to accomplish. Those were my goals, completing Cosmetology school in a year and a half, getting a receptionist job at a salon on the days that I wasn’t at school in the evening, learning what goes on in the salon, and being prepared after I graduated.

I took each step and eventually accomplished my goal as a Licensed Cosmetologist.

Next was to grow my clientele and make it my career.

Each week I sat down and reviewed the week before and saw the thing I needed to learn to move ahead. My new goal now was to own a Salon. I learned some of the things a receptionist did and knew. There was more and I asked if I can help with the weekly tasks at the salon. Next, I was then promoted to assistant manager, then manager, and within six years I purchased my Salon.

I look at goals as the steppingstones to getting where I am going.

Once you know what direction you are taking, you will know the necessary things you need to do to get you there. Knowing where the finishing point was made it easier for me to take the necessary steps to get there.

Also ask for help along the way, finding a mentor, coach, or anyone that is an expert in what you are choosing to do. I am blessed with many people in my life that took me under their wing and showed me things that I never knew about and gave me a different perspective.

Certain goals needed to be accomplished within the time I was opening my salon. Employees, schedules, products, remodeling, setting up the business, etc. Having that all written down and learning those steps prior to opening my Salon, I was able to put it all together before I opened. It has now been over 29 years and I am consistently writing my goals and following steps to achieve them.

I still analyze my goals and plans each week and continue to create new goals in my business weekly, monthly and yearly.

What really matters to me? Mindset/Personal Growth, Family/Relationships, Social/Community, Spiritual, and Finance. Once I know what drives me and what matters to me, I then have a better idea of what goals I want to achieve.

I start by defining my goals. What is my Ultimate goal? When I can picture my Ultimate goal, what are the smaller steps that need to be done? That clarity is the foundation of my courage. Small action steps: I write down my ideas and pick three things to work on in the next 30 days. I pick things that I know I will be successful in doing, something that will get me one step closer. Setting the goal before attempting to achieve it is important because it gives me a clear idea of what actions and steps, I need to take to achieve that goal. Setting a goal can help me to break down the goal into more manageable steps and see what actions I need to take to achieve that goal.

Many goals that seem impossible to achieve on the surface are quite doable when I actually set the goal and really look at what steps are needed to achieve it!