Since 2011 I have participated with picking 3 words to help guide my year.  This idea has come from Chris Brogan and it has helped keep me focus on my goals throughout the year. Chris wrote last year about this process: If there were a hierarchy to planning out your year, it would look like this: The big story. Vision. Goals. Plans and Milestones. The daily calendar. You could argue which goes first, a vision or a big story. I’d accept either. But to me, a vision is a story told in goals, so I put it below the big story. The big story is that which we want to believe about our life and our goals and our plan. The vision is how you lay that out into something you can do. Goals are a way of knowing that you’re headed in the direction of your vision and your story. Plans and milestones are what make up goals, and if this doesn’t land on the calendar, you don’t have anything. The three words are a shorthand representation of your bigger story. It’s kind of like how an icon isn’t the software program. It’s just a way for you to mentally access all the work you’re doing. Make sense? I really believe in creating a vision for ourselves and to be intentional about what we do and how we do it. Some of my past goals have been 2011 –  Acceleration, Mindfulness, and Learning 2012 – Simplify, Share and Balance 2013-  Transform, Practice, and Completion My words […]