How to Utilize Behavior-Based Goals

Setting goals simply works...and in the first month of my online coaching membership, A Pilgrimage to Self, members get access to Design an Intentional Life workbook that helps them discover their goals in different areas of their lives. Practicing self-awareness helps zero in on a focus goal and establish routines and habits that help members make those goals a reality. 

I’ll bet that the goals you currently want to achieve are based on a specific outcome, aren’t they? These are called outcome-based goals, and they usually involve a change in a situation in our lives. A better job, more money, a bigger house, weight loss and/or fitness... all of these are outcome-based goals, and these are what comes to mind when most people think about goal setting.

But there is a different type of goal that doesn’t focus on the outcome at all! Rather than focusing on the outcome, this type of goal focuses on changing behaviors that make achieving the outcome-based goals so much easier and faster! These types of goals are called behavior-based goals.

A Pilgrimage to Self helps members create the routines, rituals, and habits that become the foundation to achieving goals.

With behavior-based goal setting, the intention is to create positive change in your habits, or behaviors, which will increase your chances of achieving your outcome-based goals. You can think of behavior-based goals as a mid-point, or stepping stone, on your way to your ideal outcome.

By creating and practicing positive habits until they become second nature, you increase the likelihood of achieving your end goals. But there is an unintended positive consequence of doing this! You see, while you’re changing your behaviors, you’ll also be utilizing those newly-cemented positive habits in many different areas of your life – some having nothing at all to do with your end goal! And this is the beauty of learning to utilize behavior-based goals alongside outcome-based goals.

Create the larger outcome-based goal first. Then ask yourself, “What positive habits will I need to create in order to increase my chances of achieving this goal?” The answer to that question will be your new behavior-based goals!

To demonstrate the technique here is an example.

Anna wants to lose thirty pounds. Losing the weight is her larger, outcome-based goal. She knows that in order to lose the weight and keep it off, she needs to change habits that are preventing her right now from doing this. She sees that she needs to create new habits around consistency, discipline, and learning to not get overwhelmed.

Anna does a bit of research into these three new habits and finds techniques that she will implement to create positive habit changes that meet these interim behavior-based goals. 

Designing and developing the action steps allow her to move forward; because she is following the philosophy of the Indian Proverb, A House With Four Rooms by doing something for daily for her physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, she has established the appropriate routines and habits that move her closer to achieving her goal.

A few months later, Anna has lost the thirty pounds but has also created stronger positive habits that will stay with her for the rest of her life. These new habits and confidence will allow Anna to design new goals.

What goal would you like to focus on? What are the actionable steps that you need to develop and practice to move you closer to that goal?

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Until next time...

Lisa

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