Don’t you love your car’s GPS?
When you hop into your car for a trip to an unfamiliar destination, you plug in the address that your nav system converts to GPS coordinates. You start your car, pull out of the driveway, and follow the directions that the nice lady narrates.
With few exceptions, you end up exactly at your destination.
Why? Because you plugged in the address!
Now, you could have winged it. You could have headed more or less in the direction you wanted to go; stopping from time to time asking for directions; or not; getting lost; getting frustrated; getting into arguments with your passenger who is “supposed” to be looking at the map; wasting fuel; losing precious hours; and usually ending up in a fairly un-resourceful state when (and if) you finally get to where you thought you wanted to go.
But who wants to wing it when you’ve got something as fab as a GPS?
Except, that’s the way that many of us start out the New Year
Only 45% of folks make resolutions; only 8% reach their goals.
Most of us don’t think about any destination. Most of us never bother to lock in the coordinates.
We wing it. We wander. We get frustrated. We get lost. We lose heart. And another year passes us by.
This year could be different.
Choosing a destination… an exact destination… is a really good place to start.
It could be a business destination like a sales goal or it might be a personal destination like a weight loss goal. But the clearer you are – the more specific you are – about the destination the better. (As in, you’re more likely to get to San Francisco if you say you’re going to San Francisco as opposed to saying you’re going “out West.”)
Now, like any trip you’ll want to consider a few other things. One of those things is whether your destination (your goal) is reasonable under the circumstances. If you’re starting out from Boston, is it reasonable to say that you’re going to drive to San Francisco in two days? Probably not. If you’re starting in Reno, that’s another matter.
If you want to make a million dollars in 2015, bravo. But if you’ve never made more than seventy-five grand in any given year, the distance may be way too much.
You want your destination to be a reasonable one. Because if it’s not, it’s a setup for disappointment and failure.
One of the cool things about a GPS is that it usually doesn’t lie. It gives you a really clear idea about how many miles you have to travel, and how long it’s going to take you. You want to know these things about your trip. So that you’ve allotted enough time; and resources; so that you have enough food and fuel.
You can also see your progress toward your destination on your GPS. It ticks down the miles; and ticks down the time. You can measure how you’re doing at every moment along the journey.
You want this information for your business and your personal goals as well. You want to know how long it will take you, what you’re going to need along the way; you want to be able to measure your progress; and you want to be able to see the miles and the time tick by, lest you lose heart.
Another awesome feature about this GPS thing is that it tells you when you’re off course. And it “recalculates” to enable you to get back on course.
Most of the time when we’re driving along and we take a wrong turn, we don’t abandon the trip and go home. We listen to the GPS, and we get back on course again. Would that the same could be said for our business and our life goals. So often we take a wrong turn, throw up our hands and quit. How much better would it be to simply “recalculate” and keep on going!
There is one final thing that’s pretty essential. All this GPS theory is interesting. But if all we’re doing is playing with the machine in our driveways, it’s purely academic.
We actually need to start the car, pull out of the driveway, and get going.
Action. Steady movement toward our destination – toward our goals – is where the rubber really meets the road.
When we keep on going, no matter how frequently we get lost, how often a governor closes a bridge, or how horrific the traffic is, we’ll get to our destination.
So as you sit here on the threshold of this New Year, choose an exciting destination, dial in the coordinates. And get going.
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