What is life planning and goal setting?
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by: Sarah Lethbridge21
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Your 'SMART' goals
Every person has ups and downs. If you are a victim, and is unable to achieve your goals or you are having a hard time getting through a period of no success, you should consider adapting SMART techniques for setting your goals. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, & Timely/Tangible. Through proper life planning, your goals from a SMART perspective, you can utilize the potential of our life or business fully, and enjoy our achievements in the long run.
Before setting in a SMART approach for your goals, you must first identify them. You must decide on what goals you want to achieve for your life or business, and must write them down. You should not be too overwhelmed on how you are going to achieve them. Always remember that “where there is a will, there is a way.”
Secondly, you must not try to achieve all your goals at once. You must learn to prioritize your goals according to your life’s of business needs. The ladder of success in the business world is best led by those who follow a strategy while climbing it, and in the business world. Select a major and minor goal in sequence. This helps to maintain a momentum in your business. This also allows you to keep in track and encouraged towards achieving your goals, as taking up major goals at once can take a long time to achieve.
Try to start small. Once you selected your major and minor goals, try to derive smaller progressive goals from each. This will allow you to build a partiality towards achieving your goals and will involve less stress. For example, if one of your minor goals is to wake up every morning before 8 AM so that you get more time to prepare yourself for work, set your alarm 10-15 minutes before 8, and similarly vary your alarm times every day. At the end of the month, you will find yourself waking up an hour early, without hampering your sleep.
Now that you have decided on your goals try to house them under the SMART criteria.
• Specific: Your goals must be specific, within behavioral terms, and should define a standard of success on achievement. In order to better focus on achieving your specific goals, first start out with long term goals, then mid term goals, and finally short term goals.
• Measurable: The goals you set must be measurable, either in terms of quantity or performance. When goals are measurable, you will be able to derive a better idea about you achievements, and what you need to do in order to achieve more out of your planned goals.
• Achievable: Alongside your goal needing to be specific, it also needs to be achievable. You must determine your own capacity and then set your long and short term goals accordingly.
• Realistic: While setting your goals, you must also keep in mind that they should be realistic in all terms.
• Timely: All your goals should be accompanied by a time constraint. Along with the goal itself, you must determine a certain period of time within which you wan to accomplish your business goal.
Best of luck!
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