How To Rate Your Goals at the End of the Year
How To Rate Your Goals at the End of the Year
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How To Rate Your Goals at the End of the Year
Talking about goals in the last month of the year is unique.
Many people are approaching demanding deadlines. Many others have long abandoned their goals. So this is the perfect moment for the last review before starting over.
Also, the Christmas magic, or the deadlines approaching, force you to give everything you have left to reach your goals. Therefore, recollect everything inch of motivation, and let’s make this last push together.
Then, rate your goals to understand what went well or wrong and how to improve for the following year. And we will see how here below.
The Goods and the Bads
I don’t enjoy ranking my goals only at the end of the year. And it would be best if you plan different sessions to do it.
For example, a good rating session would be every 12 weeks, as in the 12 Week Year by Brian Moran. And the goal of a rating session is not to rate how much you achieved but how much you learned. So you will start with a good versus bad list.
Take a piece of paper or the infographic below, and answer the following questions:
What helped you become more productive? And what didn’t?
What keeps you from procrastinating? And what triggered procrastination instead?
In which periods of the day/week did your work better? And in which did you work worse?
Collect information that could help you replicate success in the following year. And then, make a list with at least three behaviors or tools you want to keep using or abandon.
How To Improve for the Following Year
When you have a list of the good and bad things you did last year, you understand how to improve your efficiency for the following. It would be enough to follow the things that went well, or anything similar, and avoid those that troubled you.
But the list only contains the behaviors that helped you achieve or miss a goal. It doesn’t include information about its doability. And if one of your plans wasn’t doable, you should not rank it low if you haven’t achieved it.
The opposite is also true.
Suppose you had two goals:
Run 10km a day until the end of the year.
Write 200 words every day for a year.
These goals follow the SMART rules because they are Simple, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. But some factors may influence their end-of-year ranking.
You will not achieve your goals if you hurt your foot by running too much. But you may have reached good statistics before the injury. So rank this goal higher and prepare better for the following year.
On the contrary, if you wrote 200 words every day, but the goal wasn’t challenging, don’t rank it high. You need to set better standards. Perhaps you even procrastinated a lot, and it didn’t matter. So you wrote a comfortable goal, and the ranking should be low.
Use the infographic below to rank your goals and set new ones for the following year. It will help you understand if you were too comfortable or stretched your nerves too much. So next year, you won’t make the same mistake again.
The Challenge of the Month (December 2022)
Complete your end-of-year goal rating and find out when you performed well and when you had trouble focusing on your tasks.
What you might have missed
Last month, I published four new articles:
Some of them contain many infographics. But if you want to download the most exclusive ones, you can visit the Download Page of Cosmopolitan Mindset. The password is:
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Before You Go
That was everything for this month. Next year, I may bring some new features to the Challenge, so stay tuned!
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Until next month, stay consistent and stay strong.
Cosmin.