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A Sheet for Setting Your Goals: Success Begins Here.

Gary North

This procedure is difficult. You probably will not fill in this sheet. If you do, you will not review it regularly. But
this is the basis of exceptional success.
Part I: Age 75 Retrospective self-evaluation
I asked them to imagine their 75th birthday party. What would they tell their assembled family members?
A. My five achievements that I regard as the most important, in order of their importance.
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B. Which one cost me the most to achieve, and what I had to give up in order to attain it:
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C. Which one took the longest to achieve, and why:
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Part II: Identifying a specific goal
A. What do I want to achieve?
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B. Why do I want to achieve it?
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C. When do I want to achieve it?
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D. What am I willing to pay (do without)?
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Part III: Beginning a specific goal
A. My goal is: _____________________________________
B. I will achieve it no later than: ________________
C. Steps that I will take to achieve it, and completion dates:
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D. Today's date: __________
E. My preliminary goals for 90 days from today:
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F. My intermediate goals for one year from today:
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Part IV: 90-Day Self-Evaluation Sheet
A. Long-run goal: _________________________
B. Date begun: ________________
C. Today's date: _______________
D. This is evaluation number _____
E. How close have I come to my previous 90-day success indicators?
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F. What have been my main successes?
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G. Why was I successful?

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H. What have been my main failures?
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I. Why did I fail?
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J. What are my main success indicators for the next 90 days?
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Part V. One-Year Self-Evaluation Sheet
A. Long-run goal: _________________________
B. Date begun: ________________
C. Today's date: _______________
D. This is evaluation number _____
E. How close have I come to my previous 90-day success indicators?
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F. What have been my main successes?
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G. Why was I successful?
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H. What have been my main failures?
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I. Why did I fail?
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J. Is there any pattern to my failure? If so, what?
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K. What do I have to do to overcome this?
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L. Have my priorities changed during the last year? If so, what are they now?
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M. What are my main success indicators for the next 12 months?
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CONCLUSION
This exercise is very difficult. Few people ever go through anything like it. I never did. But what I did do was
to set lifetime goal at age 18. I decided to investigate what the Bible says about economics. I worked
intermittently on this project for over a decade, writing a book on it at age 31, Introduction to Christian
Economics (1973). I began writing a monthly column on this topic that year. I increased this to 10 hours a
week, 50 weeks a year, in 1977, at age 35, to continue to age 70. I have stuck to this schedule. So far, I
have written 12 volumes, and I am finishing volume 13, plus I have written another half a dozen volumes as
appendixes. I used a weekly time input as my self-disciplining device.
My books served as substitutes for self-evaluation sheets. Instead of writing down my successes and
failures on individual sheets of paper, I published books: lots of pieces of paper. They are all available free
of charge on-line:
http://www.GaryNorth.com/freebooks

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