Effortless Goal Setting: The 3 Landmark Way

1. How to achieve, set and execute goals effortlessly: Class Intro: Few years back, when someone asked me what my goal was, I was just blank. And during those years, I always had a mindset that all this goal setting stuff is purely whimsical, is purely meant for someone who is intellectual of a very high capacity. And as far as my life is concerned, I feel I'm an average person. I thought I won't be able to set my goal, let alone achieve it. For me, goal setting was always good to see and learn and self help books rather than really applying it in real life. But the last nine months has changed the way I think about, goal setting and goal execution. The reason why I'm saying that is because I have applied the concepts that I'm going to share with you inside this class during those nine months, and I have been fortunate to achieve those goals. In this class, I'm going to share with you in simple ways how you need to set a goal that you can achieve. I'll share with you what motivators and landmark rewards you need to keep and how you can break your landmarks into a task landmark, into an inflow landmark, into a wish landmark to achieve your big goal. Of course, one thing is planning to have a goal, other thing is to actually achieve your goal and as in real life, not all that happens goes to plan. I'll also be sharing my individual timeline of what I planned for and in reality, how it panned out and how long it took me to achieve it because there were periods of lull when I felt deprived of motivation. There was periods when my business was not doing well. There were periods when I had to take off from work. Accounting all these things that brings you down, how still your goal can help you move in right direction is what I learned from these nine months. In fact, there's a specific lesson that I have dedicated for sharing important pointers, seven of them, for making your goal execution journey. Very, very easy. This class is best suited for solo entrepreneurs, small business owners, content creators, and individuals who are struggling to make their life organized, who want to be more productive and who are looking for ways to set realistic goals so that they can achieve it. This class would work best if you are planning to set a goal with a timeline of your next six to 12 months from now. Also, I have got a class project for you that will help you keep track of where you want to eventually go with respect to your goals. So I have everything, every single thing mapped and charted for you. To tell a little about myself, my name is NatashGuani. I'm a professional face reader, and I love designing videos on face reading, on self help. And this class where I have shared about simplifying your goals covers a significant portion of how I evolved in making videos for my YouTube channel as part of this goal setting strategy that I'm going to share with you. So there are huge things packed for you inside this class. If you're serious about achieving your goals, I would love to play a small role, a tiny role in this journey of your through this particular class. So let's deep dive into the first lesson of this class where I'll share with you insights for better goal setting and how you can define your goal. 2. Defining your Goal: First of all, a big thank you for getting inside this class. I'm very, very happy for you. In this lesson, I'm going to share with you how you can define your goal for the next six to 12 months. The reason why I'm keeping that timeline is because having a measured timeline helps set smarter and more realistic goals. Another reason is that I have lived this class for the last nine months, and so I feel it will work best in the short term. So coming to a question, what needs to be your goal, your goal should be something that has some meaning into it, that you feel connected to where your heart is and it should be something that you have maximum individual control on with a specific timeline. For example, as a face reader, my goal at the start of the year 2024 was to spread knowledge of face reading through designing videos on YouTube and also delivering face reading services to my clients every month for the first six months. Of course, the six month isn't the only time I will be restricting myself too, but these goals will evolve once I reach the eventual goal. So for me, the meaning part of the goal is that I believe face feeding has a lot to offer to the world, and it's something where my heart is, and I want to contribute in that field. That's the bigger meaning, the bigger purpose behind the goal. Having a meaning, a connection to what you do just adds that extra slice, extra fuel to your life. So when you are thinking of your goal, think about a bigger purpose. That you'll be serving that is beyond your individual self and which is beneficial to others. For example, if you're an artist or a creator, your bigger purpose could be to draw your artwork to spread knowledge about a particular cause that you feel connected to. Here, it's very, very, very important that you keep that bigger purpose in mind, rather than the monetary rewards that you may achieve after your goals. So think about your goals now, what you can do consistently for the next six months from now, even if nobody is applauding you. Think about where your heart is and commit to it. It's okay if you don't get your goal right now, but eventually, I have faith that you'll be able to. In the next lesson, I'll be simplifying how you can execute this big goal by setting three important landmarks. So let's jump into that lesson. 3. How to execute the Goal-The Three Landmarks: Executing the goals is the most important part of the goals you set because that's how you materialize your goal. In this lesson, I will share with you the three landmarks that you need to keep to achieve your goal. The first landmark is the task landmark, which means what activity and task you need to incorporate to achieve your goal. Task landmark is something that you can control. For example, my task was to upload 45 to 50 long form content on YouTube around phase reading and do seven to eight phase readings for my clients a month for the phase of January to June in the year 2024. So I broke down this task landmark into seven to eight videos and seven to eight face reading services a month from June to June, which means I'll be able to make roughly 45 to 50 videos, along with serving roughly 50 clients by the end of June. Of course, there can be things here and there, which there was. But this is a kind of rough plan you can keep for yourself. It's important while you're setting your task landmark, see how much you can stretch yourself, yet be comfortable in executing your task landmark. For me, my average plan for a week was to design two videos and to serve two clients per week. That is simple. The second landmark in GL execution is the inflow financial landmark. The inflow landmark is your monetary expectation from your revenue streams and the efforts you're putting in. For example, let's say, if for your service offering, you charge $100 a client and you serve eight clients a month, that means you're making $800 a month. Multiply it by six or seven months, you'll be making roughly 4,800 to $5,600 in six to seven months. Depending on what your business is, what your current revenue streams are, you can set this financial inflow landmark of yours. Again, it's important that you don't keep it very easy or extremely overwhelming. It's important to keep it aligned with the task landmark. That is what task you can achieve and accomplish in six to seven months from now. For me, initially, I set an easy inflow landmark target, which later I had to revise. So it's important you set a decent enough inflow landmark for your project. The third landmark is your wish landmark. By the name of it, it indicates your desires and wishes you have. For me, my wish was to reach 200 subscribers on my YouTube channel in six months. My wish was to serve my clients with face reading every week. My wish was also to be featured in one of the news interviews sharing about face reading. For you, the wish could be to have 5,000 followers on Instagram through your artwork or 200 potential sales of your service offering. Wish landmark is something that is not very much under your control, but it's a wish but make it more reasonable. Why I kept wish of 200 subscribers was because at the start of it, I saw channels with 100 videos having 300 subscribers. I knew that not many people are aware about face reading, so this may not be a viable content. So set wishes that you feel are desirable, but where you will feel, you will feel pushed and motivated. Somehow, if you can create the right sync in between these three landmarks, that is the task landmark, the inflow landmark, and the wished landmark, you'll hit more or less each of these landmarks at the same time. When that happens, it is a further evaluation that you have set the right goal. So think about and set your three landmarks now. In the next lesson, I'll be sharing with you landmark rewards you can keep to further motivate you to accomplish your next goals. That really will be pretty awesome. So see you there. 4. Landmark Rewards: I hope you have kind of thought about the three landmarks now. In this lesson, I'll share with you what rewards you can keep upon hitting your task, inflow and wish landmarks. These rewards definitely keep you posed and motivated towards achieving your bigger goal. So what is a landmark reward is a question. That must be popping your head by now. Landmark rewards are rewards are gifts that you give to yourself or to your business once you achieve your three landmarks simultaneously. For me, because video production was something that I did my landmark reward upon hitting the mark of designing 45 to 50 YouTube videos in my mind was to purchase a new camera, a new microphone, and a new McBook. I plan to purchase these three things once I reach the end of the year of June 2024. Having said that, it didn't pan out the way I planned, and I'll explain this in the lesson timelines planned versus actual happening of events later on. But at this point, set your two to three landmark rewards that you'll give upon reaching your landmarks. If you can keep these rewards, centering around your business, centering what you do and your needs, it will further help you in setting right goals in increasing your productivity and thereby bring you more business. In the next lesson, I'll share important tips on what you can do when you hit your three landmarks. 5. When you hit these 3 landmarks...: When you hit the three landmarks, possibly at the same time, it is time to really feel happy and congratulate yourself for the efforts you put in by now. It takes a lot to put in the sustained effort, and I'm super proud of you once you reach there. But when you hit these landmarks, evaluate whether the landmark rewards that you set initially, whether purchasing them will really yield output as you imagined, or will that be an additional cost to your existing business? Will adding that landmark reward be extremely productive? Will that significantly contribute to your revenue stream over the current setups that you are already using? I feel here being frugal, being adaptive to where you find yourself six to seven months down the line after you set a goal helps. If you can go with the current setup, maybe compromising on one of the landmark rewards, it will help you keep pushed yet be frugal about your spendings. For me, when I hit the three landmarks together, I purchased a microphone and a camera, but I felt my existing Windows laptop would pretty much do the job, which it did to an extent. Although one month later, I did purchase MacBook because I was pushed for heavy editing that was required on the videos, but it's important to evaluate and not be very emotional to go after your landmark rewards once you cross the three landmarks together. So evaluating, giving time, and if it's really, really needed, and if it's really going to be super productive for you, then go for your landmark reward purchase. In the next lesson, I'll share with you my timeline of what I planned, voices, how it turned out. It's going to be very interesting and insightful for you, so let's join in. 6. My Timeline Planned Vs Actual Events: Lesson is going to be fun listening because in this lesson, I'll give you the timeline of what I planned versus how the events turned out eventually with respect to reaching on my three landmarks. So from Jan to me, I was decently hitting my targets with respect to task and inflow landmark, where I was making and designing videos for YouTube. I was serving my clients to face reading sessions. But latter part of June, my Instagram ads suddenly were not yielding results that I expected. So there was a slump in the business, and thereby it delayed me on my inflow financial landmark. For the next two months, that is up till August, it was reviving but still not up to the mark. That dip resulted in a two month delay of hitting my inflow landmark through which it also led me to evaluate whether I really need all the three landmark rewards or I can manage with the two of them. That's why I mentioned in the previous lesson to evaluate on your landmark rewards once you hit them rather than excitingly going to purchase them. So my actual plan landmark reward, purchase of a microphone, a camera, a MAC a mac book was due in July, but I purchased a microphone and camera in mid of August and MAC in mid of September. So in reality, you may land up here and there for any number of reasons, but your goal, your landmarks, always will pull you to reach where you want to reach. In the next lesson, I'll share with you in lieu of landmark rewards, what you can do to make yourself more productive and goal oriented. So let's jump right in. 7. In lieu of landmark rewards, give a task: This lesson, I want you to think upon a task for your business that you will do once you hit, once you reach your landmark rewards. For me, designing this class for you, where I can help you in setting and executing your goals easily was one of my tasks after my landmark reward purchase. See, I'm still in the process of living this class through the goal setting. I also have to design one more extensive class on pace reading in lieu of this purchase. So for me, designing at least two classes, along with being more creative with my storytelling on YouTube is my further goal for the next six months. This is like a non negotiable. The key part and key intention here is to have something to look forward to with your rewards that you have attained. Along with that, if you can think on lines of how your landmark rewards will compensate itself and free themselves in a substantial time bracket for things you create with them will help ease out on your business. In the next lesson, I'll share with you important pointers for this class, the learnings that I endured during these eight to nine months living this class. So let's deep dive into it as it's going to be fun listening for you. 8. 7 Important Pointers for the Class: Welcome you to this lesson, and I'm happy that you have made it so far. It really shows how much you are to get better in goal setting and goal execution. In this lesson, I'll share with you seven important pointers that will help you in your journey to set and execute goals better. The first pointer is to set goals that you can practically achieve. Giving overwhelming goals is a norm that we follow and thereby we sink. So set goals for a timeline where you can be comfortable yet feel pushed. The second pointer is to reach your goal with minimum current spending using your current resources, which means be as frugal as you can be. It always, always pays in the long term. The third pointer is to keep at it. There will be times when you won't get stimulation. There will be times when your enthusiasm is at the bottom low. There will be time when you won't feel interest to do what you're doing, but keep at it. Trust the process. Have faith on the goals you set and follow it just for the time period you set. Maybe up till your next birthday. The fourth one is to be adaptive and progressive to update your landmarks. If either of the three landmarks that you have set, if you have reached them early, then try to revise them. And then target to a new one. For me, my initial inflow landmark was something that I set at a less level, and I reached it early, so I gave myself revised inflow landmark, which eventually I reached two months later than planned, but that I believe was more or less a better target. So be progressive about updating and revising your landmarks. The fifth pointer is with respect to the landmark rewards and unlocking them. I feel if you unlock your landmarks like levels, that will help you with better management of your spending as well. For example, for me, it would be like for 45 videos, I'll purchase a camera. For 50 videos, I'll purchase a microphone, and for 100 videos, I'll get a mac boook. So it's like unlocking new landmark rewards by attaining a new level through your task landmark. Also, make sure to compare how much percentage efficiency increase you'll see in your output versus your revenue that you'll attain through your landmark reward. The sixth pointer is rather cliche, which is to give a timeline, a deadline for fulfilling your task landmark because it is the super essential stuff. Seventh pointer is to remember to put in small steps every day. It will help you not to burn out and also let you feel driven. These are the seven pointers I felt will help you during your journey of setting and achieving goals. Do let me know in the discussion section, how you feel about them and contribute in your necessary points as I and you are together in this journey of uplifting and making each other better. In the next lesson, I'll share with you an interesting class project. We are very, very close to finishing this class. So let's be at it. 9. SkillShare Class Project: We are onto the segment, which will give foundations to your next six to 12 months of goal setting, which means we are at the class project segment. The class project for you is to first define your goal for the next six to 12 months, and second, is to break down your goals into three landmarks of how you're going to execute and achieve them. Yes, you can also mention the landmark rewards to keep yourself motivated by the side of it. These landmarks are the same that we study during the class, which is a task landmark where you need to put the activity that you do on a monthly basis. The inflow landmark is the monetary expectation or a target you wish to hit after the specified six to 12 months according to you. And which landmark is the wish that you have? List down what are the necessary stuff you need to get yourself started. For example, for me, having a phone camera and an iPad was necessary to start building on my face reading YouTube channel because I needed to explain face reading through pictures on the tablet. Once you write the class project, it is now the roadmap for you for the next six to 12 months. Also, please make sure to upload your class project as fellow learners and myself can learn from your project and share insights on what you can do to make it better. So it's now your time to write your project. Take a snap of it and upload it in the skill share project gallery. In the next lesson, I'll walk you through my landmark rewards. It's definitely going to be super fun. 10. My Landmark Rewards: Let me show you the landmark rewards that I got once I crossed the three landmarks together, mostly at the same time. But, yeah, I already shared in the class that I have got the MacBook a little later. So what I'll do is I'll show just the packages of it because my camera is in use, and my laptop is here. I may not be able to show you the laptop. Maybe I will. Let's try. So this is the Sony camera that I got for myself for shooting this class. Also, it was one of the aims. Then I got this Microphone, which was the purchase that I did together with a camera and microphone, because these two are the essential things, and editing is something that I could execute on my windows laptop, right? So that is something that I did. And then I purchased the MacBook a month later. So this is the, uh, package of the MacBook Pro that I got. And on that also, this video class will be edited. Let me just show you the MacBook, as well. So this is the MacBook, so I'm not lying that I really lived this class, and thereby, I want to help you for letting your goals be easy. This was the purchase, with the laptop because I'm in need of mouse and without mouse, I cannot work, so I had to purchase. This was not in the eventual plan, and as you know, that you may plan things, but how it happens in reality is something that could be different. So these are the three landmark rewards that I that I accomplished, and I'm waiting for your landmark rewards to be inside your life, thereby set your goals, divide your goals into the three landmarks, get your landmark rewards because they ultimately will push you to do better and even set your goals further better. So yeah, these are the things. And yeah, let me jump on to the final section now. Well, in the next lesson, I'll share some final words with you. 11. Final Words : Goals: Congratulations to you for making it so far. It takes excitement to start anything but discipline to finish it. And you have shown it, which indicates how serious you are towards your goal setting journey. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being part of this class. I hope this class may contribute to simplifying your goal setting, in inculcating trust in goal setting, in simplifying your goal execution. And more importantly, it lets you have fun during the entire process when you're involved in a cycle of accomplishing your landmarks. Do let me know for any questions that you have in the discussion section, please do upload your class project as I'm eagerly waiting to see your goals, and I would love a review from how you feel about this class. To be honest, I enjoyed sharing the lessons with you. You have been an amazing partner to me. And if you want to partner me in other classes, do check in my profile, and you'll have access to all the courses that I offer. It's time for me to say, Goodbye. Goodbye. I wish you the very best in your goal setting journey, and I have utmost faith in you that you'll set your goals right. Thank you, once again. Take care, and I have a beautiful day ahead.