STEPS TO ACHIEVING ANY GOAL

STEPS TO ACHIEVING ANY GOAL

1. Write It Down
Goals are specific, measurable, and time-bounded. Write your goals so that they
reflect all three components. Remember - SMART

2. List Your Personal Benefits
Identify exactly "Why" you want to achieve this goal. List all the ways you will you
benefit personally.

3. Analyze Your Current Position
Success is information dependent. You need integrity in your information. Identify
exactly your specific strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities as it relates
to achieving this goal.

4. Identify Obstacles and Risks
List everything that could possibly prevent you from achieving this goal.

5. Identify Investments and Sacrifices
List everything, including time, money, and sacrifices that you can anticipate.

6. Knowledge Requirements
Identify what additional knowledge you need to acquire or have access to.

7. Support Team
List the people, groups, and organizations you may need help from as well as the
specific role each one plays.

8. Develop Your Plan
List in chronological order each activity and their corresponding target dates for
completion. Use all the information gathered in previous steps to develop your plan.

9. Set a Deadline
Determine on what date you will achieve this goal

10. Reward and Celebrate
Identify your reward for the achievement of this goal. You deserve it!



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Set Specific Goals
Set specific measurable goals. If you achieve all conditions of a measurable goal,
then you can be confident and comfortable in its achievement. If you consistently
fail to meet a measurable goal, then you can adjust it or analyse the reason for failure
and take appropriate action to improve skills.


Set Realistic Goals
Goals may be set unrealistically high for the following reasons:
Other people: Other people (parents, media, society) can set unrealistic goals for you,
based on what they want. Often this will be done in ignorance of your goals, desires
and ambitions. Insufficient information: If you do not have a clear, realistic
understanding of what you are trying to achieve and of the skills and knowledge
to be mastered, it is difficult to set effective and realistic goals.

Always expecting your best performance: Many people base their goals on
their best performance, however long ago that was. This ignores the inevitable backsliding
that can occur for good reasons, and ignores the factors that led to that best performance.
It is better to set goals that raise your average performance and make it more consistent.

Lack of respect for self: If you do not respect your right to rest, relaxation and pleasure
in life then you risk burnout.


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