Five Everyday Changes Anyone Can Make to Achieve Greater Goals

Ken Jennings and Heather Hyde’s newest book, The Greater Goal, equips readers to aim for and attain greater goals. Greater Goals can actually be achieved through everyday choices that we make and not just as a result of some radical life-altering occurrence. Carrying out these five practices daily will help you to attain hugely positive outcomes for many and connect your own daily performance to a higher purpose.

1. Commit to the Greater Goal
   
   Craft a powerful, enduring Greater Goal statement for yourself. Think about the impact you want to have.  What will it look like – at home?  At work?  With friends? What does this personal “vision” say that you value?  Your Greater Goal should articulate the difference you want to make for others through your strengths and passions. Review this Greater Goal early each day and use it as a lens to plan and prioritize your daily activities.
   
   
2. Construct Shared Goals
   
   Share your Greater Goal with important others in your life. Find where your goals intersect or align with others.  Dialogue and agree to work together, not only toward your Greater Goal, but theirs as well. Conversations about Greater Goals help us all be more strategic about our activities.  For what greater purpose do we “do what we do?”   Conversations about great purpose help us see how our diverse passions and strengths can align.  As we say in The Greater Goal, “One of the most powerful forces on Earth is an organization (group, team, community) fully aligned, individual by individual and team by team to achieve success.”
   
   
3. Greater Goal Coaching
   
   Coach yourself and others daily to take small steps toward obtaining your shared Greater Goals.  Breaking big goals or projects into manageable chunks is a critical success factor for achieving Greater Goals.  A Greater Goal Coaching relationship is a good way to identify next steps.  Great coaching starts with great listening – being really present to the one who is trying to do their very best thinking.  In coaching you can identify the bridges to build to other stakeholders that can help achieve Greater Goals. Coaching can also be a time to brainstorm how to break through the barriers that stand in the way of success.  Always remember to consider strengths and assets as you plan to achieve Greater Goals.
   
   
4. Reinforce Alignment
   
   Broken trust is a major invisible enemy of shared goal achievement. Build and maintain trust by making commitments based on clear agreements that spell out the requests, offers and committed actions.  Avoid breaking trust by proactively renegotiating commitments you would like to change.  Ask for forgiveness and mend fences when trust is broken.
   
   
5. Build on Success
   
   Every day, search around you for what is working in alignment with your Greater Goal. Look for unexpected success and add energy to it.  Take what it working and replicate it at a larger scale.  Celebrate your shared success!

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In a world where it’s often difficult to connect purpose and performance, The Greater Goal resonates strongly. It provides a powerful framework for uniting an organization behind a common vision, along with pragmatic instruction on how to execute in order to achieve an organization’s greater goal.

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