In this video, I'll explain what I mean by aspirational goals and how to use aspirational goals to help you and your team think big and bold and achieve the impossible. In the last two videos, we looked at SMART goals and smart behavioral goals. SMART goals work really well much of the time, but they can have their limitations. If you remember, smart stands for specific, measurable, agreed upon realistic and with a time scale. But here's where smart can hold us back. If we think something's not realistic, we might give up at the first hurdle.
Or if we think it will take too long, we'll simply reject it. And aspirational goal on the other hand, on the other hand is a real shoot for the stars goal. One that probably makes you feel a bit nervous, but in a good way. One that makes you say, Oh my god, that will be amazing. Of course it has to be something that changes With your common purpose and your personal values and aspirations. The thing is most people want goals that inspire them, stretch them, give them give them the opportunity to grow and learn new things and contribute to something other than just simply making money or saving money for your business.
They want to feel emotionally connected to their goals. aspirational goals, therefore have the wow factor. They stop us from limiting ourselves aspirational goals I find a really good for individuals, but even better for whole teams, getting them to work on something really meaningful or exciting together. Working on aspirational goals can give your team real energy. And of course an aspirational goal for a whole team really binds them together and helps them with that mutual accountability we've talked about throughout this class. So here are four ways to get us thinking about aspirational goals.
Firstly, ask yourself this. Wouldn't it be amazing if? And then fill out the blanks? Or secondly, if we had a magic wand, what would we do? Or how about this? Let's think of something that's impossible to achieve and start to make it possible.
Or it can't be done. So how do we do it? Once you've thought of something, it often helps imagine that you're already there that you've already achieved that goal, to visualize your success, so just imagine you've achieved the impossible. How do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
What are other people saying or doing? visualization is a technique you've probably heard of it, and it's one that many elite athletes use when preparing for a big game or competition. They picture themselves winning. It's just like playing a success video in your head and talking Success. Our final video in this class talks about the importance of celebrating success. But before you go, you might want to download my checklist.
I've done checklist for you 10 great goal setting questions, which you'll find in the resources section.