Repeat the Process

Making The Steps of Goal Setting a Repeatable Process

Do It Again and Again – Part 2

In my Sunday school class, my grandmother quoted these words, “there is nothing new under the sun.” ^[1] I decided to look these words up and attempted to process their meaning. Not only is this a direct Bible quote, but it also starts with these words, “What has been will be again…” What that tells me is that in life there is a natural order of repetition. What is occurring has occurred before. If this is the case and it is, shouldn’t we get good at seeing life this way and using this insight to our advantage?

The seasons cycle through our life. We view time in cycles of 24-hour periods. There are stages to life that cycle for humankind: birth, childhood, adulthood, and mortality. Even relationships have cycles. Here is my point. Cycles or repetition is a natural part of our existence. Whether one may realize it or not, your life is a repeatable process that we call cycles. If we can learn to use this repeatable process towards accomplishing our desires, then success will be its product. In other words, we will use our natural process of repetition to take our lives to the next level. 

In fact, the habits we form are cycles that we repeat on autopilot. What if we used repetition to achieve greatness since we use repeatable processes anyway?

When we speak of implementing goals, we must have something in place to make certain the goals have sticking power. We must have a way to transform the efforts of completing a goal into a habit that we will enact. We must make the process of achieving our goals a repeatable habit. That process must contain the following:

1. List your desires.
   In listing your desires, you are reviewing them in a written form. You must have a regular review of the desires you have written. Therefore, create space on your calendar, in your life, for a review of your desires (what you want to do).
   
2. Select one desire to become a goal.
   Selecting your next desire as a target must be a part of your process as well. Once you have completed a goal, this should prompt you to select which goal you wish to accomplish next.
   
3. Format the desire into a goal.
   Next, repeat the process of transforming your desire into the XYZ Goal Equation. XYZ: I wish to do X-Desire by Y-Time because of Z-Compelling Reason. This statement is key to taking the next step in the process. This statement changes a simple desire into a doable goal. Make this restatement a habit that you never fail to perform.
   
4. Determine your GPS.
   Determine your endpoints. Define your desired outcome as if the goal has already been achieved. This will give you the complete picture of what your goal will look like once you are at the finish line. Make sure to include this in a repeatable process.
   
5. Set a plan of action
   List the steps you need to take from your starting point to the endpoint. This list of tasks will direct you through the steps of executing. This list will outline the sequence of actions that lead you straight to seeing your desired outcome a reality. Add this step into your repetition.
   
6. Act on it.
   Lastly, take the actions you have outlined. If you follow your plan, it will lead you to the outcome you hoped to achieve. This is a process worth repeating.

Make a habit of these six steps and you will take goal setting to the next level, we call it achievement. “There is nothing new under the sun.” Use the natural law of repetition to plant the seeds of your desires, so that at the end of the cycle you have a harvest of what you wished to achieve. Take these steps and live a life that models this phrase. “What has been will be again…” In other words, your next desire will become your next achievement because you have done this process before. You have taken goal setting to the next level. 

Question: How can you implement these six steps to goal setting into your daily habits and achieve your next desire?

[1] Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV, Bible.com, accessed March 5, 2024, https://www.bible.com/bible/111/ECC.1.9.NIV

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