Holistic Goal Setting

TODAY’S COACH’S CLIPBOARD

At their best, our goals can be holistic. Here is an example:

Several people in one of my men’s groups want to support one of their colleagues who is recovering from an injury. Everyone shares a goal of wanting to spend more time together and to build relationships with other men. One man suggested that the members meet once a week so they can walk together and then go to a coffee shop where they can join each other outside to talk and enjoy coffee. This solution created synergy, combining many goals:

Supporting the man who has health challenges
Supporting their individual goals of wanting to exercise more
Supporting the group goals to develop more camaraderie and friendship
Supporting a local business
Getting out into nature
Learning how to survive in subzero temperatures

I have been conducting men’s groups for over 30 years. Let me know if you would like to join one.

YOUR STRATEGY PLAYBOOK

How to Leverage and Integrate your Goals:

Keep them visible and reflect on them frequently.
Examine where your goals overlap to learn more about yourself and your passions.

Mind, Body, and Spiritual Goals:

Mind goals are career, skill, knowledge, material accomplishment oriented.
Body goals are health, fitness and physically oriented.
Spiritual goals are more about connecting with your beliefs, values or inner voice.
Spiritual goals are about “being” rather than “doing”.

Do Goals have to be accomplished to have value: