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Here’s a process for setting and completing the project are essential before moving to the
any goal: next step. There is a reason it is listed as one of

Stephen Covey’s habits in his best selling book
Understand the result—begin with the end Seven Habits for Highly Successful People. But
in mind the vision is yours. Otherwise it is just noise—

It may be one of your current projects is to obstacles likely to get in the way of your pursuit.
complete your Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM)
under the legacy program. There is one year Write it down
left. Success might be “receiving the certificate In our electronic era, we try to record

in the mail from Toastmasters.” Ask who or everything electronically. Tools such as OneNote,
what the goal is for. Here, it is simply a personal Project, Evernote, and Keep are designed for
accomplishment. this. Instead, try a plain old yellow legal pad
Ask yourself, is it a health goal, a family and favorite pen. For some reason, putting pen

goal, a life goal, a job goal, or a goal set for you to paper requires more thought. As an outcome,
by others? It is an important key to prioritize more thoughts get transferred to paper.
these goals through the broad scope of both • Write down all the steps you can envision.
your other tasks and projects and your day to In the case of larger steps, break them

day life. Would achieving a DTM compare to down into smaller tasks.
completing chemotherapy treatments for cancer? • Next, put the tasks in the order in which
Of course not. they need to be completed, and indicate
Visualizing your success and prioritizing which tasks are dependent upon others.

• Finally, if any are date specific,
place them on your calendar.

Determine what resources are

needed
Usually these involve people,
money, things, and time. Again, I put
these on paper. If specific people are

needed, try and get them on board
first. If it requires a budget, include
that!

Predict roadblocks

This will allow you to anticipate
problems and perhaps have solutions
in place before they are needed.

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