SMART GOALS: How to break down your goals and live your best life.
HOW TO BREAK DOWN YOUR SMART GOALS AND FINALLY LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
SMART Goals
HOW TO BREAK DOWN YOUR SMART GOALS AND FINALLY LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
Despite the toughness of today's business climate, one of the basic building blocks of success is knowing how to develop SMART goals. It doesn't matter if you have an overall idea of the success you're working to achieve or if you're working to meet a single specific goal; to create goals, you need to follow these essential SMART principles.
S is for Specific
S could also represent Simple, Significant, and Sensible. All these are vital points in the goal-setting process. Your goals need to be as specific as possible since they will serve as your guide to success. These goals shouldn't give room for misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
These goals should answer the following questions critically:
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
Once you've answered all these questions in your goal-setting process, it is challenging to be hindered by a lack of details or information.
M is for Measurable
Developing a precise scale to measure success works wonders when describing goals that are meaningful or motivating. Accountability is possible when dealing with measurable goals. While motivational goals keep you on task throughout the process, measurable goals help keep you grounded so you can track your gains on the way towards your ultimate goal.
It can be hard to recognize when you've accomplished your goals if your goals aren't measurable in some meaningful way. Creating measurable goals make it easy to embrace success when you find it.
A is for Achievable
Setting an achievable goal means that you're not setting your goals so far off that you take on an attitude of hopelessness about ever achieving your goal.
Also, having one colossal goal makes it difficult for most people to remain motivated along the way of success, but having several smaller goals that constitute the overall goal allows you to celebrate small victories to celebrate along the way. You can combine these to enable them to work towards the ultimate goal of your journey.
R is for Relevant
R could also represent Result-based or Realistic as preferred by some people. Nobody wants to create goals that would take them around the world, keeping them busy while taking them nowhere close to the success they desire. You want to develop goals that keep you on the path toward your overall goal.
At the end of it all, your goals must have something in common with your overall lifestyle or business objectives. For instance, if your goal is about learning to learn how to garden, redo your home landscape, or teach your kids the hands-on skill of gardening, these tasks each have relevance to achieving success within and for your family—irrespective of the fact that all these goals are concrete and even though they are different activities.
T is for Time Sensitive
Achieving a goal requires a timeframe that keeps you on task and prevents you from spending so much time in pursuing this goal that you forget what they are. There has to be a sense of urgency when accomplishing your goals to keep you committed.
Keep your eye on the prize!
To live your best life, SMART principles like these can help you reorganize your thoughts, actions, and mental energy to achieve your short and long-term business and lifestyle goals quickly and efficiently.
