Do you set goals for yourself? If you’ve been to business school or read books on goal setting you might be familiar with the acronym SMART, which stands for Specific, Measurable, Actionable or Attributable, Realistic, and Timed. Well, even you learn that already, did you sit down and gave careful thought to what you want to achieve over the coming weeks, months and years? Did you make a point of writing down your goals and referring to them regularly?
Setting goals are so easy that it’s crazy not to set aside the small amount of time needed to sort out an appropriate plan of action. Goal setting is an important method of accomplishing any lifetime achievement. However, there are some key points that you should consider before setting your goals. Let’s take a look at what those are.
• Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life and making your choices based on that knowledge
• Separating what is important from what is irrelevant so that your focus is in the right place
• Motivating yourself to achievement to ensure your accomplishment
• Building your self-confidence based on the measured achievement of goals
• Ensuring that your goals are your own and not anyone else’s
Below are my five key outline points to goal setting, you might have some more in mind, but truly there are only five – everything else is just a branch of the main five points.
You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward yourself appropriately. However, you do need to draw lessons where they are appropriate, and feed these back into future performances. In learning from mistakes and errors, you are guaranteeing future success.
And setting goals isn’t a luxury, it just a discipline that almost all successful people and corporations do religiously. If you haven’t start to setting up your goals, you should do it NOW!
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