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GOAL SETTING & ACTION WORKBOOK

2017Goal Setting & Action Workbook

a simple process that works!

Completed By: ____________________ Date: __________

*This is a supplement to the post: Simple Goal Setting That Gets Results

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BY DOING WORK YOU LOVE

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ABOUT LIVE YOUR LEGEND

Hey Guys – Welcome to an amazing time of the year!

For those of you new to our community, Live Your Legend is a community and movement dedicated to changing the world by helping people find work that genuinely excites them – and build a career around making the impact only you can.

The majority of the Live Your Legend tools and community resources are totally free to the public, and this workbook is only one of the many tools in our Passionate Work Toolkit. Along the journey we’ve also created a career course, Live Off Your Passion, as well as How to Connect With Anyone, designed to help you build genuine connections with the people who can change everything.

We look forward to this being just the beginning. We’re in your corner however you need us.

Here’s to taking 2017 by storm!

~ The Live Your Legend Team

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Guidance:

This was created to help you take action to make 2017 your best year yet. Use the following questions

to get crystal clear on your vision, goals and the actions required to make them happen. The key is

to keep it simple, actionable and exciting. Clear your calendar, get out your journal and let’s

get to work. Be sure to print this out so you can put pen to paper. Then take it to a coffee shop or park -- WITHOUT an Internet connection or a time limit --

and let the awesomeness begin.

Every magnificent accomplishment, discovery or transformation started with the decision to make a change and follow up with tiny steps each day. Over

time that commitment will move mountains.

Let’s get to it!


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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim

is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we

hit it.” ~ Michelangelo


STEP ONE

Reflect! Review What Made Last Year

Awesome (and not so Awesome)

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the

more there is in life to celebrate.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Take stock of what you’ve accomplished and what you’re proud of. Also think through the low points of the year and what you don’t want to repeat.

Use these questions to guide you:

1. What are you most proud of in the last year?

2. If there were a newspaper headline describing this past year for you, what would itsay?

3. What unfinished business did you want to resolve before the year’s end, and when willyou do it? (Ex: lingering relationships, apologies, goals yet to achieve, etc.)

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4. When were you most excited about life in this past year? What were you doing? Whowere you with?

5. Looking back, what would you have done differently in 2016?

6. What new dream for yourself did you achieve?

7. Where did you let fear hold you back from a goal you had?

8. What was boring to you this year that you hope to change for next year?

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9. What new and inspiring people did you meet in the last year? Who do you want to get closer with in the year to come? Remember, you are the average of the five people you spend most time with. Choose wisely!

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STEP TWO

Define Your Areas of Attention

“If you have built castles in the sky, let not your dreams go to waste. Just

build the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

List the core areas of your life where you want to get results. Examples include: Health, Continued Learning, Helping Others, Marriage, Business. The more creative you can get with your naming, the more committed you’ll be (i.e. Expand the Mind instead of Continued Learning). Anything goes.

Don’t list any more than 8 (ideally fewer). The point here is to nail the areas in your life that matter and have fun with it.

Areas of Attention

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STEP THREE

Define Resolutions and Habits

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not

an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

Before we start thinking through our massive goals, it’s good to start with general themes of improvement or change you want to work on. We see them as habits or resolutions. These differ from goals in the sense that goals are things you eventually accomplish or check off your list. Habits are things you want to adopt as a part of your life going forward. Some examples of habits we’ve focused on include: being early, scheduling less, slowing down, spending less time on email, simplifying/ decluttering, single-tasking or getting more sleep.

Our friend Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net has a really effective and simple approach to changing habits - It’s best to focus on a max of one new habit or resolution at a time (ideally no more than one a month). If we do that one thing for a month straight, it will likely become a part of our routine. The good news is that for the super ambitious, this still allows for 12 new habits a year! Although, we’d recommend fewer.

List up to 12 habits or resolutions you’d like to focus on for the New Year: 1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 10. 11. 12.

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1. 2. 3. 4.


STEP FOUR

Create a Core Goal in Each Area of Attention

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill

Now it’s time to think big. These goals don’t have to be massive, but that certainly makes it more fun. They just have to be meaningful to you. It’s not necessary to pick something for every single category, but we encourage you to do so or you risk sacrificing parts of your life that matter. Balance is key.

List 1-3 goals per Area of Attention:

AA1 AA2 AA3

AA4 AA5 AA6

AA7 AA8 AA9

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STEP FIVE

Get Specific! Define What You Really Want

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly

find out how far one can go. “ ~ T. S. Eliot

It’s not enough to say, “I want to be healthier” or “I want to make more money”. Goals must be quantifiable and measurable. And you need to be in control of whether they happen. You can’t control whether you actually lose 10 pounds, but you can control what you eat and how often you exercise, which usually leads to losing the weight. Define exactly what you want. If you want to write a book, then how many words a day can you commit to?

If you don’t know the rules of the game, then how could you ever expect to win?

List the quantifiable outcomes and the specifics of each goal.

Goal Quantifiable Outcome & Specifics: 1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

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6. 6.

7. 7.

8. 8.

9. 9.

10. 10.

11. 11.

12. 12.

13. 13.

14. 14.

15. 15.

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STEP SIX

Get Leverage Find a Compelling and Emotional Reason Why

He who has a strong enough why can bear

almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Leverage can come from one of two places. You can focus on the wonderful things you’ll experience if you complete your goal (i.e. happiness, personal freedom, finding the love of your life). Or you can focus on the awful things that might happen if you don’t (i.e. loneliness, a heart attack, bankruptcy). Positive or negative, discover what will make it an absolute must to accomplish your goal. It’s like the father who couldn’t quit smoking until his six-year-old daughter walked into his home office one morning and said, “Daddy, I don’t want you to die before I’m 10.” He never smoked again. That’s leverage.

What massive reason can you find for making your goal a must? It could be fitting into your wedding dress or being sure you’re alive to teach your grandson math. It’s your call. Just be sure there is major emotion behind it.

List one WHY for each goal.

Goal: Leverage—Your massive reason why: 1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

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6. 6.

7. 7.

8. 8.

9. 9.

10. 10.

11. 11.

12. 12.

13. 13.

14. 14.

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STEP SEVEN

Fill in the Details - Create Baby Steps

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things

brought together.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking of a long-term goal as a single item to accomplish can be massively overwhelming. But every goal has all kinds of 5-minute or one-hour tasks leading up to it.

1. Take each core goal and divide it into 3 to 5 Minor Steps. Then create 3 to 5Baby Steps for each Minor Step. You may need more or fewer steps dependingon the size of your goal. Feel it out.

2. Also, think about who can help you make each goal a reality. No one doesanything on their own. Behind every success is a support team that makes itpossible. For each of your goals, list one person who could help you achieve it.Ideally they have experience and expertise on the topic. This could besomeone close to you, a colleague, friend or someone you’ve never met whoyou’d love to get assistance from. List at least one name for each goal.

On the following pages name and list your goals, their Minor & Baby Steps,and someone that can help you accomplish it. Write as much or little asnecessary per goal, but try to get at least a couple points listed for both minorand baby steps.

See example formatting listed in the first box.

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Goal

Minor Steps: • • • Baby Steps: • • • Who can help?

Goal


Goal


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Goal


Goal


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STEP EIGHT

Get THEM on a Calendar

Show me your calendar and I’ll show you your

priorities. ~ Unknown

Everything we do takes up physical time in our lives. Without putting things on the calendar, it’s easy to plan way too much. Too much then leads to overwhelm, which leads to the opposite of progress. Not good.

Now look at the goals and habits/resolutions you’ve created. Begin to place each into various months. Be conscious of your life. If you know you’ll be traveling all of April, then don’t expect huge results that month. If some of your goals will take the whole year to complete, then fill in your Minor tasks in the months where you will take the action.

2017 Goals, Habits and Outcomes by Month:

JANUARY FEBRUARY

MARCH APRIL

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MAY JUNE

JULY AUGUST

SEPTEMBER OCTOBER

NOVEMBER DECEMBER

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STEP NINE

Get Accountable - Tell at Least 4 People About Them

“Show me your friends and I will show you your future.” - Unknown

We tend to keep our word much better with others than with ourselves. Pick at least four people close to you to tell about your goals. They’ll be your Accountability Allies. Walk them through your process. Explain why it’s so deadly important to you and even give them a copy of your goals and plan (Just photocopy this when complete). Ask for their help.

Accountability Ally: How they’ll keep you accountable

(weekly checkups, whip cracking, etc.):

Bonus Task: Better yet, head over to our Live Your Legend Accountability & Action Group on Facebook and openly declare your biggest goals to our community. Not only will it make you more accountable, but I know there are also a ton of ways our talented members can help you be successful. Go get the word out!

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STEP TEN

Routinely Review Your Progress, Weekly or Monthly at the Least

Steady perseverance is taking small steps to get to your achievement and toward which effort is directed. As long as you make movement toward a goal, that’s what

matter most in life. ~ Kemmy Nola

To see massive progress, you must keep your plans front of mind. Create a routine that allows you to review the above on a weekly basis. Anything more infrequent than weekly makes it too easy to keep the ideas and dreams just that: ideas and dreams. They become reality when we consistently address them and make small gradual progress. In a year that can become enormous.

1. Write down when you will review your goals on a routine basis:

Day of Week: ______________________ Time of Day: ____________

2. Adopt a weekly planning process to ensure you continue to stay accountable and make progress. The good news is we already created this for you.

Go download The Weekly Planning Workbook and get started!

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STEP ELEVEN

Do Something NOW - no Matter How Small

Never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive

action toward its attainment.” - Tony Robbins

Never leave the site of a planning session without taking some action to get you closer to victory. It could be the tiniest thing in the world. Maybe send a short email or make a quick list. Pick something that only takes 5 minutes or less. And do it. Let the momentum build.

Pick one small task for your top few goals that you can do right now to get you closer.

1. 2. 3. 4.

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Become Your Dreams - Just Add Hard Work

Congratulations! The fact that you’ve finished this process means you are nearly guaranteed to experience your dreams. As long as you do one thing…

Work.

Dreams don’t become reality by dreaming. That is the very first and simplest step. The magic happens when a consistent process of dedicated action is applied to the things that matter most in your life. And make no mistake. Massive hard work is required.

When you get committed on such a level, the sky is literally the limit. That is what has turned the impossible into the possible and is what makes the difference between a Legendary life and an ordinary one.

We have a lot more power than we often give ourselves credit for.

All we have to do is want it badly enough. That part is up to you.

Here’s to a year of doing what actually matters – to you and to the world.

We’ll see you out there!


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Need more in-depth guidance for finding & doing work you love? These will help…

We have all kinds of incredibly in-depth courses to help you every step of the way and, as with everything we do at Live Your Legend, they come with a 100% results-backed guarantee. That’s just how we roll.

Three great places to start are:

1. 21 DAYS TO DISCOVER YOUR PASSION

Do you feel like the only thing you know is that you don’t like where you are right now? 21 Days to Discover Your Passion is a 21-day step-by-step guide to help you break through that barrier.

It includes Passion Discovery Actions to help you build your mindset, create congruency, define your change and set up rituals for success. These daily discoveries will get you closer to doing work you love in 21 Days.

Guarantee: start doing work in one area you are passionate about in 60 days or less, you get a 100% refund.

2. LIVE OFF YOUR PASSION

The full step-by-step framework Scott first used for his coaching clients to discover their passions and build a career or business around work they love – now built into our flagship 8-module interactive online course.

Guarantee: Start doing work you love in 90 days, or you don’t pay!

3. HOW TO MAKE YOUR FIRST $1,000 FROM YOUR PASSIONS & TALENTS

The title says it all. The exact process we’ve used with countless students to make their first $1k, which is also what we’ve used to develop and launch every service and product we’ve created at Live Your Legend, that’s led to over $700k in sales in two years. It also comes with our private $154k 7-page launch checklist. We don’t share these numbers to brag. We tell you as proof that our tools work. Hence our guarantee…

Guarantee: Make your first $1k from your passions and talents in less than 3 months or the course is free.

All of our products and courses can be found here.

Enjoy!

–The Live Your Legend Team

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WEEKLY PLANNING WORKBOOK

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YEARLY WEEKLY PLANNING WORKBOOK A SIMPLE PROCESS THAT WORKS!

Completed By: Date:

*This is a supplement to the post: How I Plan My Week (My 5-Step Process)

It also works hand-in-hand with the Goal Setting & Action Workbook.


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ABOUT

LIVE YOUR LEGEND

Hi Team!

For those of you new to our community, Live Your Legend is a community and movement dedicated to changing the world by helping people find and do meaningful work that genuinely excites them—and build a career around making the unique impact only they can make.

The majority of the Live Your Legend tools and community resources are totally free to the public—this workbook is only one of the many tools in our Passionate Work Toolkit. Along the journey, we’ve also created career discovery courses such as 21 Days to Discover Your Passion, Live Off Your Passion, and How to Connect with Anyone, designed to help you find and create your career and build genuine connections with the people who can change everything.

We look forward to this being just the beginning. We’re in your corner however you need us.

Here’s to doing more of what matters!





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Guidance:

Spend one hour going through this process at the beginning of each week—it will help you do a lot

more of what actually matters.

Ideally pick the same time each week, put on your favorite music, brew your best tea and

make it a ritual.

Cheers!


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STEP ONE

CONNECT AND VISUALIZE THE BIG PICTURE

“The future you see is the future you get.” –Robert G. Allen

Take a few minutes to visualize your 3- to 10+-year high-level goals and outcomes to connect deeper to the WHY behind what you are doing each day (and make sure it is still in alignment). Time: 2–5 min.

STEP TW0

CELEBRATE LAST WEEK

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” –Oprah Winfrey

Write down everything from the past week that you’re proud of. List at least 10 things, and many more if you want. Big or small, anything goes. Time: 5–10 min.


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STEP THREE

WRITE DOWN MAJOR LESSONS

“Learn from your failure and it’s not failure. Do it again and it is.” –Live Your Legend

Write down any key learnings from the past week: major lessons, meaningful quotes, things that inspire you and dream connections (people you’d like to meet). Time: 2–5 min.

Major Lessons:

Meaningful Quotes:

Sources of Inspiration:


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People You’d Love to Meet:

Inspiring People You did Meet:

STEP FOUR

ANALYZE WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN

“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” –Lewis Carroll

Be honest with yourself and list the big things that didn’t happen and what you can improve for next time. Time: 2–5 min.

What Didn’t Happen:


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STEP FIVE

CLARIFY AND COMMIT TO YOUR BIGGEST OUTCOMES

“Focus is the key to the world.” –William Dinsmore III

Decide on a maximum of 6–7 outcomes you want to accomplish related to the various areas in your life. This could be creating a personal budget, cooking a healthy meal or having a great meeting with a mentor. You get to decide. Just be sure they get you closer to your yearly goals. That’s the key. So “checking Facebook” would not count. Keep in mind that the majority of your time should be spent on activities that leverage your natural talents and strengths, and everything should be in line with your values. Take a minute to quickly review your strengths and values as well to be sure everything is in sync. Time: 5–10 min.

Top Outcomes:


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STEP SIX

SCHEDULE EVERYTHING

“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.” –Anthony Robbins

Every task takes time and therefore needs a place on your calendar. Look at your 6–7 weekly outcomes and decide what core tasks will need to happen to accomplish these. Now spread these out throughout the week. Most people can’t accomplish more than 1-3 meaningful things in a day, so that’s your limit. Time: 5–15 min.

Pick 1–3 “most important tasks” (MITs) related to your outcomes, and schedule them throughout the week:

Monday

Thursday

Tuesday Friday

Wednesday Weekend


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STEP SEVEN

FILL IN THE GAPS & HOUSEKEEPING

“Pay attention to the small things, for over time they’ll become big.” –Proverb

1. Look at what’s left on your to do list. Now look at your calendar and see when you could fit the little things in. Schedule these as well. By the end of this process you shouldn’t have any stray to-do lists or tasks. Any remaining items on your task list should be appropriately categorized for later. By far the best task management tool we’ve found is Things (Mac & iOS).

2. Ask “Who else can I help this week?” List 1–3 people.

3. Ask “Who could help me accomplish what I have planned for the week?” List 1–3 people

4. Review expenses and spending from the last week using financial software, online banking or expense notes. If you have a business, look over those expenses as well.


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IMPORTANT THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND

1. Everything takes longer than we think. If you think it’s going to take an hour to write an article, then schedule an hour and a half. Your worst-case scenario is that you end up having free time.

2. Leave windows of “buffer time”. Do not fill in every second of every day.

Unexpected things will always come up. Don’t let them snowplow your week. Give yourself time to take care of last-minute stuff that matters, and to be spontaneous with things.

3. Know you won’t get it all done. Even with great planning, it seems like we

tend to be over ambitious. Be okay with leaving something for next week. It gives you something to look forward to anyway.

4. Schedule the most important things early in the day and early in the week. Given the above, front-weight your most important tasks so that no matter what comes up, at least a few of them will get done.

* * *

With the Right Process You Always Have Time for What Matters...

Make the above a part of your weekly process and give yourself a chance to do more of what matters. Whether it’s losing a few pounds or transitioning to a job you actually enjoy, the right process can make all the difference. That starts with how we spend our days, weeks and hours.

Enjoy!



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Please Share This With Those Who Need It!

We provide this stuff to our Live Your Legend community totally for free—and we love it that way! All we ask is that you share it with those you think need it. You can do that by Tweeting, Facebook sharing or emailing the related blog post by clicking to this page: How I Plan My Week (My 5-Step Process). We would love if you’d email the above link to one person who could genuinely use these tools.

You can also click this link to share directly to Twitter.

Thanks so much for being a part of this!


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Need more in-depth guidance for finding & doing work you love? These will help…

We have all kinds of incredibly in-depth courses to help you every step of the way and, as with everything we do at Live Your Legend, they come with a 100% results-backed guarantee. That’s just how we roll.

Three great places to start are:

1. 21 DAYS TO DISCOVER YOUR PASSION

Do you feel like the only thing you know is that you don’t like where you are right now? 21 Days to Discover Your Passion is a 21-day step-by-step guide to help you break through that barrier.

It includes Passion Discovery Actions to help you build your mindset, create congruency, define your change and set up rituals for success. These daily discoveries will get you closer to doing work you love in 21 Days.

Guarantee: start doing work in one area you are passionate about in 60 days or less, you get a 100% refund.

2. LIVE OFF YOUR PASSION

The full step-by-step framework Scott first used for his coaching clients to discover their passions and build a career or business around work they love – now built into our flagship 8-module interactive online course.

Guarantee: Start doing work you love in 90 days, or you don’t pay!

3. HOW TO MAKE YOUR FIRST $1,000 FROM YOUR PASSIONS & TALENTS

The title says it all. The exact process we’ve used with countless students to make their first $1k, which is also what we’ve used to develop and launch every service and product we’ve created at Live Your Legend, that’s led to over $700k in sales in two years. It also comes with our private $154k 7-page launch checklist. We don’t share these numbers to brag. We tell you as proof that our tools work. Hence our guarantee…

Guarantee: Make your first $1k from your passions and talents in less than 3 months or the course is free.

All of our products and courses can be found here.

Enjoy!






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