Smart Goal Setting - How To Set Achievable Goals
Benjamin Robert Ehinger
Are you trying to set goals for yourself, but you keep falling short of them? Do you want to make sure you set challenging, but achievable goals for your life? There are many ways to set goals and there are many ways that are not correct. Smart goal setting is the type that allows you to be challenged, but also to achieve the goals you set forth to achieve. Here are some tips on how to set better goals for yourself.
1. Make sure you make the goal visible. If you want to make enough money to buy new furniture, then find the furniture you want in a magazine, catalog, or even go to a store and take a picture of it. Then, post those pictures in the spots in your home where you want to put the furniture. This will give you a visual reminder of why you are working so hard and what you are working for. This is a great way to stay motivated towards your goals.
2. Break your goals down realistically. One of my goals is to be able to support myself from my article writing alone. At this moment I am about half way there and have been at work for about 4 months now. My goal is to be there by the beginning of 2009 and I am very much on track. It would have been ridiculous for me to expect or try to get to that point in one month and if that was my goal I would have never achieved it, probably became discouaraged, and gave up on it.
Since my goal was set to be able to support myself by 2009, I took it and broke it down. knowing that I was learning something pretty much new to me I did not expect to make any money my first month, even though I did, then my goal for the first three months was to be at $25 of daily income. I made it plus some. My goal for my current quarter is to average $50 a day in income and this is putting me right on track for $100 a day by 2009. It is posted right on my door so I see it every day before I leave.
3. Add some small goals and tasks to your weekly and daily goals. This is smart goal setting at its best. When you add a few small things that need to be done and you do them, then you get to cross something off your list and you get to see your progress. It is very important for us to see progress and by adding small and easy things to accomplish it will help you stay motivated to accomplish the larger and more challenging tasks on your list.
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