What factors prevent you from achieving your annual goals?
Too many targets
People's time and energy are very limited. Except for sleep, work and daily life, there is little time left at our disposal, and it is impossible to achieve every goal.
The best way to achieve your goals is to simplify your goals and focus your time and energy on the most critical goals.
Remember, the most important thing is only one thing.
It is too different from personal situation.
I earn thousands of dollars a month, but I want to earn millions a year to realize wealth freedom.
anisotropy
Setting goals requires careful thinking. Is this what you really want to achieve? Is your behavior in line with your goal?
For example, the goal is to work hard and get a raise to buy a house, but think about it carefully. Can you buy a house only by salary in first-tier cities? It is very, very difficult to rely on wages, so you can only jump ship for a raise or start a business to get rich.
Lack of correct knowledge
For example, if you want to lose weight but don't know how to lose weight scientifically, you will only use dieting as a way to resist your body instinct. Once you return to a normal diet, you may rebound soon.
The goal is unclear and cannot be quantified.
For example, if you want to get married, lose weight and make money, how can you quantify these?
What kind of person are you looking for when you get married? How many pounds do you want to lose? How much do you want to earn?
Run a long distance by sprinting
Sprint is to run with all one's strength, while long-distance running is to maintain a certain rhythm and only exert strength at critical moments. Running a long distance by sprinting will only quickly lose motivation.
It takes three minutes to make a plan.
For example, people who don't exercise regularly are stimulated to make a plan to exercise for 2 hours a day one day.
Choose a completely uncontrollable goal.
Some factors are beyond people's control. For example, I want to buy 5 million in the lottery.
Lack of proper planning
I seldom think carefully about what kind of goal to choose, nor do I think deeply about how you should achieve it.
This plan is perfect.
For example, what time to get up in the morning and what to do, just like a clock.
When best laid plans encounters an unexpected situation or accident that makes the plan impossible to realize, you feel that life is hopeless and completely broken.
Don't spend time on important things.
It's good to set goals, but I find that I don't have time to do them when I carry them out.
In other words, it is a waste of time to formulate many implementation plans, but not know which one is better.
Lack of tracking and summary
Running all the way set a goal and put it into practice, but he didn't really realize the gap between the plan and reality.
I didn't reflect on whether to adjust or summarize for a period of time, and I didn't follow up the implementation of my plan at all.
For example, fitness has just started to do some basic movements, and after a while, it will continue to train at the original planned intensity, and the fitness effect will be gone.
So how do you make annual goals and executable plans?
It is recommended to use OKR = goal and key result = goal &; Main results.
OKR is now widely used in IT, venture capital, games, creativity and other enterprises. For example, Google uses OKR to set goals, and this goal has been expanded dozens of times.
When OKR is used to set annual goals, the completion rate can be increased several times. Because of OKR,
1. Pay more attention to the process
Formulate key actions and behaviors, and naturally achieve the goal by tracking and paying attention to key processes.
This process can be measured.
In the process of making, we must find indicators that can measure the process, so that we can track it clearly.
3. Absolute focus
It allows you to focus your time and attention on a specific goal.
So how to use the annual goal of OKR system?
First of all, clearly understand the concepts of * objective results and key results *.
An effective goal has three characteristics:
If there is no progress or change within 100 days, you should re-examine the goals and processes, either with the goal setting or with the methods adopted in the process.
When setting goals, you can refer to the following points:
The goal is not easy to achieve. You need to stand on tiptoe to achieve it, which is better than your present situation.
Setting goals is actually challenging yourself. It is best to jump out of your comfort zone to help you.
You can't achieve this goal just by listening to what others say. What is the core motivation of this goal? How willing are you to achieve your goal? Constantly asking yourself why is actually thinking repeatedly.
For example, why lose weight? Because of being looked down upon. Why do you look down on it? Because it's too fat. Why is it too fat? Eating too many sweets because of bad living habits? Why do you eat sweets? Because of the pressure of work, I like to eat sweets to relieve the pressure. Actually, I want to lose weight because I'm under too much pressure and in a bad mood. In fact, changing jobs and controlling emotions are more helpful than losing weight.
For example, why do you exercise? Because exercise keeps me healthy? Why can exercise make you healthy? Because exercise can raise the heart rate. Why raise the heart rate? Because it can burn more heat. Why burn more calories? Because I want to lose weight. Why lose weight? Because people usually deal with people of medium height, I like to look good in clothes when I am thin.
If you set three goals first, you must figure out which goal is more important, which goal you should choose if you want to jump out of the current predicament, predict in advance what obstacles and difficulties you will encounter in achieving this goal, and choose the most important goal.
Avoid using vague words, be as clear and measurable as possible, and have a standard to judge whether this goal has been achieved.
Focus on a really core key goal for a quarter, and ask yourself repeatedly: If you only accomplish one thing a year, what will have the greatest impact on your career, work and life?
Plan the whole process and concentrate on writing three core goals, not limited to career, work and life, but not too much.
The key result, KR, is how to know how you are doing and what criteria are used to judge whether you have achieved your goal.
Effective KR has two characteristics:
The key points of making a scientific KR are as follows:
For example, fitness articles
O- develop exercise habits
The goal is not clear enough. Set a specific point in KR.
Kr-Try 5~ 10 different exercise modes and find the one that suits you best.
KR—— 15 The number of exercises of more than 20 minutes per month.
KR—— Control the intensity of real-time heart rate during each exercise.
Kr- reach level 7 in KEEP.
Use the following basic process developed by OKR to open the annual plan.
Big O is ambitious, 30% higher than your current ability, which makes you feel anxious. If you don't work hard, you can't reach it.
Disassemble the big o into 3~5 small o's in the direction of achieving the goal. There is a strong connection and logical relationship between big O and small O. Small O should be as challenging as big O.
There is also a strong connection and logical relationship between KR and each small O. KR obeys the goal and is directly linked to the goal. It must be quantified and customized in time, quantity and quality.
More specifically, it is necessary to make a list, stage by stage, what to do first, what to do later, specific matters and behaviors, and what kind of results to achieve at different stages.
There are two points to note when making OKR:
No matter how perfect the plan is, it is inevitable to make mistakes. Plans always set an ideal situation, and there will always be various problems and accidents when they are implemented. It is impossible to consider all the circumstances.
The problem is not that you can't carry out the plan perfectly, but that it is difficult for you to evaluate your ability and often overestimate your willpower.
So, don't try to make the best plan, change is always faster than the plan. Try to stay calm, even if the plan goes wrong, all you have to do is deal with it.
How to effectively implement the plan of using OKR system?
The specific steps needed to achieve the goal, to avoid any ambiguous content, must have a clear and definite goal.
For example, you can't read more. You should study for at least 4 hours every night.
Set the time and place to do each step, and consciously form the habit of doing fixed things at a fixed time and place.
After a period of time, your brain will automatically tell you to plan at that fixed time and place, and the plan will go smoothly.
When making a plan, it is necessary to predict the difficulties and accidents that will be encountered in the implementation in advance, think about it repeatedly, give the countermeasures when you think of it, and combine the different steps into a description of "If ……".
For example, I study in my room for at least 4 hours from Monday to Friday, and study 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday.
Anticipate various situations in advance and make a list. As many "what if" as possible will reduce the occurrence of accidents and improve the success rate of the plan.
Effective implementation benefits from daily management.
OKR is a tool to help achieve the goal, not the goal itself.
In the process of formulation, we should think repeatedly: "What do I want? What is the truth? How should I act? How did I do? Should I adjust? What did I do badly? How can I improve? "
100% cannot complete the initial OKR, which is an elastic plan.
Regular inspection can reflect on whether OKR's goal is reasonable, see how you perform, and reflect on whether the current goal is appropriate every 1~3 months, and whether it needs further adjustment.
We should carefully consider what the key KR is, emphasize the quantification of KR, what we have done in a week and whether we have done it every day. Make sure you work in the right direction through KR.
Like losing weight. Look in the mirror every day and give up if you find no change. In fact, you can weigh it yourself at first. After a certain period of exercise, you will find that your weight has not changed, and you can start to refer to the changes in body fat.
Establish an appropriate feedback mechanism, through which you can see what you have done well, what you can do better, how to improve and adjust what you have done badly, and what you can't do at all. Keep moving towards your goals, gain a sense of accomplishment through a period of action, and make yourself feel closer and closer to your goals.
To sum up: no matter how well the goal is set, the real core is to carry out implementation and regular inspection. Only by doing a good job of implementation and inspection can we truly achieve our goals.