Use the SPICER Planner to Plan Your New Years Goals

We are quickly approaching the start of a new year. A time that is traditionally packed with excitement, renewal, and refreshing. Many of us are buckling down, reflecting on our lives, and considering how we want to improve the quality of our life for the following year. Setting New Year's resolution describes the person we desire to become and the accomplishments we hope to achieve.

We all have both short-term and long-term goals that we want to achieve. But not everyone achieves their goals. Several factors play into why someone isn't achieving their goals. One common thread that I see that distinguishes the goal achievers from the rest is actively writing down and reviewing their goals often. Seeing the goals you want to achieve written down and laid out in front of your eyes will motivate you to complete them.

If you want to increase your level of productivity, you can do daily, weekly and monthly planning simultaneously. However, I want to encourage you to take your annual goal setting up a notch today. In the SPICER Planner, the first activity you are going to set out to complete is the creation of six SMART goals. There is one goal for each of the six SPICER areas of life.

• Spiritual
• Physical
• Intellectual
• Career
• Emotional
• Relationships

We start this process by first walking through and explaining what each of the different SPICER areas means and how each is an important spoke on the wheel of life. I then walk through the process of creating SMART goals. Goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. This leads to a space explicitly provided for mapping out one SMART plan for each of the six SPICER areas.

These goals will be the foundation of your motivation for the next 12 months. You will use these long-term larger goals to set the pace and momentum for your more short-term monthly and weekly goals. The objective here isn't to try and focus on all six goals all at once. But to select two or three each month to pay attention to and make small steps towards achieving them.

Radical change doesn't happen overnight. The change that occurs quickly frequently is not lasting and impactful. We are focused on the steady progress that will form new and robust habits to live by. As the saying goes, this process is a marathon and not a sprint. So prepare yourself for the journey ahead and start thinking about your goals for the new year.