The 90 Day Goal Setting Worksheet
If you are not accomplishing everything you’d hope to, it comes down to two reasons: 1. lack of clarity 2. daily broken focus.
Setting 90 day goals gives me clarity on the path that’s already been illuminated before me.
The #1 enemy to you not accomplishing your dreams is broken
focus.
Step #1: Establish your 90 day game plan
If you are just getting started in setting 90 day goals, then just set 3 to 5
goals and go for it. If you want to take your goal setting to the next level,
then use the model I learned from Todd Herman, the creator of the 90 Day
Year Program. The following tips are a combination of Todd’s advice and
my own experience.
● Choose less than five outcome goals – When I first started
setting 90 day goals, I set 1015 goals. Honestly, it was way too
ambitious for a 90 day time period. I recommend you keep it
down to 35 goals at most. Also, be sure they are outcome driven.
In other words, they achieve a desirable result in some way. My
outcome goals go on a whiteboard so I can see them daily.
● Set a few performance goals for each outcome goal – You
have probably heard “what gets measured, gets done.” This is
what a performance goal establishes. Keep it simple here, but set
a few performance goals that allow you to see how you are doing
in achieving your outcome goal. I have a handful I check every
Friday. My performance goals go under my outcome goals on my
whiteboard.
● Brainstorm process goals (tasks) that support your
outcome goal – Who is going to do what, when? This is the
process level. You have achieved ultimate focus when what you do
daily connects directly back to your outcome goal. My process
tasks go in my to do system so I know what still needs to get done.
My 90 Day Outcome Goals are… Write 2 to 5 outcome goals you’d like to accomplish in the next 90 days. Choose goals that can get done in 90 days and no more than 5. Ex. Earn $10,000 in online business revenue by July 1st.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
My first performance goal for each outcome goal would be… Here you will select a performance goal (something you can accomplish or improve in the next 12 weeks) for each outcome goal. Ex. I will publish one new blog post this week by Wednesday.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
My process goals will be… Your performance goal won’t happen until you establish the when, where and what. Go ahead and set some now. Ex. I will go to Starbucks Tuesday morning between 7:008:00 to write my blog post.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Step #2: Spend the first hour of each workday on your 90 day game plan
I’ve written about my morning process before in a blog post called Do
Creative Work First. The basic summary is you should spend the first hour
of your day doing your creative work. Creative work is what only you can do
that drives your business or projects forward.
Many of us start our day in social media and email. Doing so pulls you into
reactive work. Reactive work is when we get pulled into other people’s
agendas and pulled away from our most important goals.
Developing the habit of focus sessions first thing in the morning will allow
you to build in process goals into your routine.
That’s it! Now, you are ready to get rolling and get more done!