The GoalTribe Blog

Every goal system, including GoalTribe, tells you to sit down and plan out the steps, the actions, to achieving your goal. That’s usually when the goal-planner (that’s you) starts sweating. You start thinking, “I have no idea how to achieve this goal or else I would have done it already!” And yo know what? You’re right! You DON’T know how to achieve the goal. Nobody can predict the future. You don’t know what obstacles you’re going to run into, what resources you’re going to need, how much effort it’s going to take, how much money you’ll need. Any good goal process begins with good quality time writing down a goal plan that totally sucks.

STAY CALM!  That’s exactly how things are supposed to be. Your plan will wrong. It will need revision. You might have to throw it out completely and start again. It might just say “Step one: Go find someone who can help me with step 1.” That’s ok!

What’s important is that you take some time to take your best guesstimation of what you steps you have to take to succeed. It’s important to take some time to think. Don’t get hung up on all the things that you don’t know or could go wrong. Sometimes you don’t even need to plan more than your first few steps. Spend the appropriate amount of time planning, then GET INTO ACTION.

Once you start taking action, you’ll learn a lot more about what’s involved. And then you can feel free to start adjusting your plan based on what you’re learning. And you don’t have to feel bad that your goal plan sucked. It’s serving it’s purpose in all it’s wretched imperfection. It’s forcing you to think ahead and process what you DO know. And it doesn’t take a perfect plan to do that.

Sucky Goal plan’s RULE!