What’s your process for setting goals and creating actionable plans to achieve them?

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Michael Johnson · Answer

What's your process for setting goals and how do you set actionable plans to achieve them? I think the second part of that question is most important, setting actionable plans to achieve goals because many people sort of stop with just setting the goal which in that way is just a hope, it's not an actual goal. The most important part of setting a goal is making sure that you believe first and foremost that the goal is actually achievable. Second, it's understanding what sacrifice is. What's it going to take from you to actually achieve that goal and then committing to that as opposed to-- it's easy for me to commit to a goal of hey, this year I want to win a gold medal. That's easy. But now what's it going to take for me to win the gold medal? So the year that I committed to trying to make history and win the 200 meters and 400 meters at the Olympic games, my coach said OK, in order for us to do that if we're going to run both events at the Olympic games, four round of the 400 meters, four rounds of the 200 meters. This is what it's going to take from a training standpoint. This is what we're going to have to do over the next two years in order to get there. And those were the things that I had to commit to. And it wasn't easy. Those were things that you know as he kind of ran down the list which I already knew these are the things you're going to have to do. This is what practice is going to look like. This is how much more difficult. This is how much more volume is going to be in order than what it's previously been when I was only running one event. I, had to think about those things and then go, OK, yeah I'm willing to do those things. I'm committed to doing those things to achieve the goal. So that's how you set goals. It's committing to the things that are required to achieve the goal rather than just committing to the goal itself.

Markeith Price · Answer

So when it comes to setting goals, I think about like what is like my goal. Like what are the things like I'm interested in? What am I doing right now? Whether it's school track, something, professional that I'm into. And then I think about. Okay, what is my goal? So, like let's say, I want to run a certain time by the end of the year. And so, I will set that goal and then To make it an actionable goal. I have to figure out what's going to get me to that goal. So there might be Little Steps here and there 12 steps when it comes to training. Of course, it's hard work when this fetish incur a class doing good like having good grades. It's studying different things like that. So when it comes to actionable goals and creating a goal, what am I into? Like what is my angle? And then little mini goals, little mini steps to get to that goal. That's, that's how I set goes. That's how I make them actionable. Yeah.

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