A common complaint I hear from folks about goal setting is that often people end up falling short of reaching their goals. Certainly in some instances lack of planning and giving ones self ample time to reach the goal is the culprit.

That’s not always the case however. Very often it’s a simple case of “out of sight, out of mind” that stops many well meaning goal achievers from getting the results they hope for.

Personally, I’m really big on keeping lists. If you haven’t read the Book, Getting Things Done by David Allen, I’d recommend you doing so. You don’t even have to buy it, most libraries have a copy… however, it is well worth the price in my humble opinion just to have it in your personal success library.

With that said, lets get back to keeping lists. Basically, we’re talking about keeping a to do list (the book gets a lot more in depth on this, and other areas, but for the purpose of this post lets stick to the simple to do list).

In its simplest form, a to do list is writing down all the things you want to achieve, and simply marking them off the list as you complete them.

However, here’s another interesting approach I read about called a Bubble Map, basically, rather then writing out your to do list, you draw them Personally, I think I’ll stick to my old written method, but hey, don’t let that stop you from giving it a try! You may just find it works like a champ for you.

Here’s how Bubble Mapping works as shared on the LifeHack.org site….

Taguchi-san has invented with an alternative way on representing a todo list. It is called Bubble Map. He uses a bubble (a circle) to represent an instance of task. He draws the bigger bubble if the task is a higher priority, respectively smaller bubble if the task is less important:

* The beauty of this method is that it truely (=intuitively)
* represents your mind share of each ToDo item…
(found via LifeHack.org)

Interesting idea don’t you think?

Yours in goal setting, Josh Hinds