This is a summary of ideas and lessons from Goal Focus. 

The Goal Focus group is the best possible community composed of people who want to help you achieve your goals in life.

Goal Types

            For the goal categories, there are different types of goals which have continued to appear across people.  To give you some ideas of goals for yourself, this is a set of examples.

Health

            Develop consistent times to wakeup and go to sleep.

            Reduce weight from X to Y.

                        Select and follow a diet.

                        Eat X foods for breakfast or lunch.

                        Eat food before 8pm.

                        Decrease coffee.

                        Decrease sugar.

                        Limit eating out to X times per month.

                        Exercise and workout times per week or 
                        month.

                        Run marathon.

                        Do cardio X times per week for Calories 
                        per workout.

                        Stretch.

                        Pushups and situps.

                        Measure body fat and lower to X

                        Reduce heart rate to Y.

            Health habits

                        Brush teeth.

                        Floss teeth.

            Sports

Achieve level in a sport such as belt in 
            martial arts.

Take yoga classes.

            Go to doctors or have medical issues covered.

                        See a doctor.

                        Get a medical procedure done.

Relationships

            Spouse

                        Have a date night each week.

                        Establish time for quality time talking each 
                        week.

                        Go on X overnights with spouse alone 
                        during year.

                        Plan a surprise for spouse.

            Family

                        Do a family history with a relative.

                        Attend family events or organize events.

                        Play or read with children X times per 
                        week.

            Friends

                        Contact old friends.

                        See X friends per week or month.

            Community

                        Volunteer.

                        Donate charity.

Finances

            Management

                        Put all finances in Quicken and have 
                        monthly financials.

            Home

                        Buy a home or sell a home.

                        Fix something or clean something in home.

            Credit

                        Review and improve personal credit 
                        scores.

            Taxes

                        Pay for medical expenses with pre-tax 
                        dollars.

            Debt

                        Reduce personal debt by X each month.

            Savings

                        Save X for emergency savings.

                        College savings planning.

            Investments

                        Purchase investment real-estate.

            Insurance

                        Get disability insurance.

            Estate

                        Write and update a will.

                        Create trusts.

Business/Work/Career

            Achieve revenue goal of X.

            Achieve profit goal of Y.

            Achieve personal net income of Z.

            Clients

                        Acquire X new clients.

            Products/Service         

                        Improve, launch, develop product.

            Staff

                        Hire or fire X people.

Personal

            People

                        Find coaches for personal growth.

            Places

                        Attend X for travel, vacation, learning, 
                        culture.

                        Go to Smithsonian classes.

                        Go to church X times per month.

            Things

                        Build something.

            Hobbies

                        Learn a new skill.

                        Record music.

                        Drawing.

                        Take a cooking class.

                        Develop a new hobby.

            Habits

                        Get more organized.

                        Develop daily processes.

                        Take off more time, have more free time.

                        Focus on positive aspects of life.

                        Plan each day the night before.

            Deletions of habits to stop or reduce

                        Avoid email certain times of day.

                        Avoid frivolous books or TV or media.

                        Spend less than X hours per week on 
                        non-revenue items.

            Personal Growth

                        Listen to personal development tapes or CDs.

                        Identify skills to develop and work on 
                        those skills.