I want to show you how I would do the second part of this goal-setting exercise so that you can easily follow along after you see how I do it. Let's take a few wishes that I wrote down. Obviously, I only have a few because it's for example's sake. In your case, you would write down all your wishes that are very important to you.

Example 1: Business Goal

Wish

In business, I want to make a life-changing amount of money.

Goal

First of all, what's life-changing? For example's sake, let's say $100,000 a month. How is that going to be measured? Obviously in dollars. And under when? We're going to say in the next 12 months. So your goal becomes:

I want to reach $100,000 per month in business revenue in 12 months.

Plan

A part of goal setting is that it has to be realistic. If you're starting from scratch, it's really hard. But if you have an existing business that already earns some money, perhaps it's not so hard. In any case, you see, now it's a goal. We took it from a wish to a goal. The next thing you would do is plan how to actually get there. For example, in my business, it's online courses. In the online course business, you can create more courses or promote existing courses better. So the plan would be:

• Promote my courses better
• Create additional courses

Once you have this concrete goal, the planning for it also becomes very concrete, direct, and importantly, actionable. It should be realistic.

Example 2: Health Goal

Wish

I want to lose two pounds.

Goal

The KPI is pounds, and I want to do that in one month. So the goal becomes:

I want to lose two pounds in 30 days.

Plan

To achieve this goal, the plan is very simple:

• Exercise more
• Eat better
• Do other health-related activities

Example 3: Passion Goal

Wish

I want to write more poetry.

Goal

You can't just say "write more poems" because if you hurry your poems and it's a creative work, it will not come out so good sometimes. Instead, you can say something like:

I want to schedule time to write more poetry.

Plan

The specific goal would be to allocate 5 hours per week to write poetry. The KPI is in hours. To get to every week, start with one week. So the goal becomes:

I want to write poetry this week for five hours.

Once you have it as a goal, it becomes very easy to do because the next thing you do is prioritize it and put it on your schedule. Suddenly, it's on your schedule, so you'll know exactly when you'll do it.

Conclusion

This exercise should be very meaningful because this is literally like painting on a canvas of your life. How do you want your life to go? This is exactly the painting that you're going to be painting. Starting from your wishes, eliminating most wishes, and identifying the wishes that are really meaningful for you. Then, out of those meaningful wishes, creating very useful goals that are actionable and that you're going to act on. This exercise can be life-changing, so I encourage you to do this. You don't have to 100% stick to this; you can always change it. But at least it's going to be a great and very practical starting point.