Goal Setting: Balancing Achievement Between Your Career and Personal Life

Visualizing Sweat

We’re sure you’ve attended numerous meetings and seminars where goal setting was the topic of conversation. So why is it the topic of our blog this week? Well, we recently attended a meeting with a unique spin on effectively setting and following through with your goals in all facets of life by simply using your five senses.

We learned it’s important not to set goals in only one area of life. Goals should be distributed evenly between career, physical, family/social, and spiritual aspects of life. At TCG we strive to be well rounded individuals by setting goals as a team in these various categories such as, volunteering each month, having a monthly book club to enrich our brains, setting specified sales goals, consistently living up to our mantra – Event Differently, and our most recent endeavor, training for a half marathon in April.

We were intrigued to discover that when creating goals, studies have shown that translating each goal into specific and thoughtful images and utilizing our five senses, allows for successful goal accomplishment and follow through. Coincidentally, this is the same exercise we do when brainstorming event concepts.

Take a minute to visualize yourself achieving your goal. Now picture yourself in the moment. What sounds do you hear? What are you holding or touching? Are there any specific or unusual tastes in your mouth? What are the sights and smells around you?

Doing this exercise, perhaps repeatedly, allows you to get a feeling for how amazing completing your goal will feel and hopefully will be a constant motivating force.

Though, I’m not sure how pretty this visualization exercise will be when applied to our half marathon…

Happy goal setting!