Everybody wants to improve both their personal and professional lives. Just take a look at the abundance of the self help books, articles, tapes, CDs that are available both on-line and off-line to get an understanding of the plethora materials that are available.
However, with such ample variety of very good resource materials available, why do the vast majority of people fail in their goal-setting pursuits. Maybe you too are in the same boat, how many diet plans have you tried and failed? How many personal goal setting objectives have you attempted in your personal and professional live only to quit soon thereafter because of lack of motivation or the goals seem entirely too out of reach for you to accomplish?
Set Realistic SMART Goals : (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely)
Specific: Your goals need to be specific, in other words, stating for example that you want to become more organized in 2010 is too vague of a goal in terms of any successful goal achievement outcome. How are you going to become more organized? What steps will you take? You need to think of goal setting in more doable bite-size pieces. By stating that you want to become more organized in in your time management, as an example-well time management is specific, you can develop an effective action plan in addressing time management as one specific component in your organizational goal setting:
• Adhering to a schedule
• Writing down your tasks
• Prioritizing tasks
• Completing one task before moving on the next
• Limiting interruptions
Measurable: Your goals need to be measurable or you will never succeed in reaching your objective. For example in using the above example time management as one component of your organizational development goal, you need to be able to measure the effectiveness of your time management goal setting plan. How do you do this?
By keeping track and measuring either daily or weekly, what you did-and how successful you were or not in completing your time management goals, you will be able to measure and gauge how well you are doing in this area, and will be able to modify and make the necessary adjustments and changes to ensure your successfulness in this area.
Achievable Your goals need to be achievable in order for you to be successful in reaching them. This is pretty self explanatory but you need to make sure that your goals can be achieved and obtained.
Realistic Your goals need to be realistic. For example; if one of your goals is to lose 50 pounds as ideal weight reduction goal, but only giving yourself 3 months or so to reach your weight loss goal, may not be a realistic timeline. If when three months come by and you’ve only lost say 20 pounds or so, you may become completely discouraged and quit, when all you really need is a longer timeline. One of the biggest reasons people fail in their goal attempting pursuits, is not setting realistic goals and not having realistic time for optimal goal-setting success.
Timely Your goals need to have a definite timeline. Saying you want to lose 50 pounds as your life goal is great but saying whenever or not specifying an end time for completing is not effective and you will more than likely never complete your goals.
By stating an end-line that is achievable, and realistic ensures that you will have much better success in actually reaching your goal objectives. After you reach and complete one goal for yourself, your success will further fuel the motivation for you to attempt other personal and professional goals. Motivation is fueled by Success , the success that you achieved and reached by setting SMART goals.
Wayne
Remember: “The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt”
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Article Source: Motivation Tips For Personal Development
