Every time you set a goal, if you are experiencing difficulties, while working towards achieving it, remember the words SMART SMART is an acronym that can be used to evaluate and add structure to your goals. S Specific SMART starts with asking yourself to what extent the goal is What? Develop my comunication skills. specific. The less specific the goal, the Why? more difficult it is to To advance my personality and become more effective in every determine how long it situation will take to achieve it or how to measure Where? success Both at school and in my personal life M Measuraeble What determines success? Some goals may be best measured by a simple yes- For instance,if you do not or-no,such as the goal of Without access have access to a scale climbing to the top of a to a reliable way then measuring weight mountain.While other goals loss will be dificult and are better measured by of measuring using metrics such as the weight,we may less accurate.An goal to los 10 pounds.The want to alternative measure may key to measurement is consider buying be to track how many making sure that in inches you have lost a scale or whatever way the goal is around the waist Butto restructuring measured,it accutrantly what extent does this our goal reflects success. accurately reflect the goal? A Attainable
Actionable is not Well designed goals
provide clarity of action.If asking yes or no,but the actions required to how will the goal be achieve a goal are achieved?What is unclear or there are a our action plan?Do large number of we have the actions.That nees to be resources and taken,we should consider capabilities required breaking down the main to achieve success?If goal into manageable,actionable not,What are we sub-goals. lacking R Relevant In isolation any single goal is relevant,but in life we most often are in the process of A common pursuing multiple issue we face,is goals.We nees a mechanism to help us having too monitor our goals to many goals at make sure we are the same pursuing our most time,or relevant goals at any pursuing the given moment in time. wrong goals T Time-Based
That last thing we want to
make sure is that goals are time bound.By including a specific date by which a goal should be accomplished ,it helps provide incebtive and allows us to monitor progress.Consider the difference between the goal to lose 10 pounds and the goal to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. Thak you for your attention