I realized that I don't really have any achievable goals. Might seem strange or faulty buy really I am finding myself in a situation where I'm setting up for a gnome business with a "step 2: ..." situation.
So, this must be addressed before I can do anything else really. This means a couple of things:
1. I need good music and A.C.T's Circus Pandemonium is as good as it gets so all set.
2. Planning for lunch so that I have about one hour where I know I will have the time to think. Done I guess.
3. Outlines for what I actually need to decide before I have goals. This will be the focus of this post and the post will act as garbage in order to actually get the ideas down. (see what I did there?)
So what do I need to have in order to have goals? I need short term, mid term and longterm goals. Simple right? I will also define the vision into text and that'll be that!
However let's delve a bit deeper.
How can one make short term goals?
These are actually kind of sweet because they are really measurable, bit depending on time span of course. So let's here and now come up with a time span:
These are actually kind of sweet because they are really measurable, bit depending on time span of course. So let's here and now come up with a time span:
per month?
I feel that per month is to long for short term. Working only some of hour every day I am afraid that it might be goals forgotten rather than goals meet. So let's try again with that in mind:
Per day?
Woh that's too often for sure, as I said I only ever have the odd hour to put in every day so to have a goal to achieve might just make the pressure choke me. However I kind of already utilize that goal as I try to write here every day. However I've actively looking at it more as a chore than a goal as calling it a goal put pressure on it and every day I don't write it would be a straight up failure and we can't have that and hope to make progress.
So instead let's go for a per week approach. This may well be changed but now we have something to work with!
What about mid range goals? I guess some reasonable ideas would be quarters as the obvious, however again I feel that thoughts followup is preferable in this case. So I've settled for months. Could argue that a bi-monthly approach might be nice and it has some validity but I've chosen to go with monthly as it put some additional pressure on progress which I want.
Long term however I am going the other way with and saying loosely "in a couple of years I am seeing the business...". The reason for that is mainly because it allows for agility. I mean that I find it hard to say the goal this coming 6 month, or this coming year is... And by saying in X years this is what I want to achieve.
So let's start out simple and set the goals for this week. I have already an idea for the months which is to have the first draft for the business plan. Next month might well be the complete businessplan but I won't go as far as deciding that. However there we go I just created the month-goal for February 2016, which is to have the full draft with all information constituting the business-plan. phew that feels good! So this weeks goal is to finish up part of that. I am making use of the guide presented at verksamt.se as a base. I might add that this month is for the business-plan, not budgeting. The material at verksamt.se has the form of a check-list and it is quite thorough.
It might look like a lot of air in the choices I am about to make, but there is many parts in each and every one of those bullet points. This is how they separated it into modules, there are tasks under those as well:
I proposed to make 1-4 for this months but realize the scoop is quite big, let's revise it. I will go for 1-3 this months. Making 1 the goal for this week. Half 2 next week, half 3 the week after and the other half the week after that, and putting it all together to that point in February. And that concludes this mid-range goal.
So let's start out simple and set the goals for this week. I have already an idea for the months which is to have the first draft for the business plan. Next month might well be the complete businessplan but I won't go as far as deciding that. However there we go I just created the month-goal for February 2016, which is to have the full draft with all information constituting the business-plan. phew that feels good! So this weeks goal is to finish up part of that. I am making use of the guide presented at verksamt.se as a base. I might add that this month is for the business-plan, not budgeting. The material at verksamt.se has the form of a check-list and it is quite thorough.
It might look like a lot of air in the choices I am about to make, but there is many parts in each and every one of those bullet points. This is how they separated it into modules, there are tasks under those as well:
- Outline and test of business idea
- Your idea
- team and network
- Develop
- your business idea
- is the business idea good enough?
- Immerse
- Customers
- Competitors
- Name and characteristics
- Marketing and sales
- pricing
- identify and develop product range
- Planning the company's start
- Organisation
- Business enterprise
- Facilities and equipment
- Rules and permissions
- Insurance
- Administration
- Register company
- Calculate
- Budget
I proposed to make 1-4 for this months but realize the scoop is quite big, let's revise it. I will go for 1-3 this months. Making 1 the goal for this week. Half 2 next week, half 3 the week after and the other half the week after that, and putting it all together to that point in February. And that concludes this mid-range goal.
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| Outline of February 2016. |
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