SET GOALS
As we mentioned in the last blog, goals are an important way to helps to overcome obstacles and transform them into success. Goals setting is more challenging than you might think, though.
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| Set Your Goal |
SMART GOALS
The best type of goals to set career are called SMART goals. SMART is an acronym for a specific answer, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Incorporating all five of these term aspects into your goals ensures that they are manageable and that you are capable of achieving them personally.
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| Specific Goal Settings |
A specific goal has one intention in mind. It should be an incredibly focused business so that you have a specific idea of what you need to lifetime accomplish. More than that, the specific goal needs to be measurable skills.
This means that you need to be able to measure whether or not you achieved the goal steps. On top of that, it needs to be both achievable and realistic action. There is no point in setting a goal that you cannot achieve or holds that is entirely outside of your capabilities.
Finally, set a time frame by which you need to accomplish the goal. This will keep you motivated. For example, say that the obstacle in front of you is that you need to lose weight. The goal should be to lose 25 pounds in 3 months. This weight loss goal of 25 pounds is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.
If I Can't Come up With a SMART Goal?
Say that you have been thinking of a SMART goal and keep coming up with nothing effective. If you find yourself in this situation, you can ask a close friend or family member for coaching advice. They may be able to give you a new perspective that you hadn't thought of planning. If you still aren't able to come up with a SMART goal, then the chances are that you do not have a control level of the situation. If you do not have control over it, then there is no way to manage a goal to accomplish it.
You can set goals to alleviate symptoms closer to the obstacle, it is difficult to guarantee success. You might run into this problem if your obstacle involves another person. Say your partner wants to leave you, and you don't want a divorce. Since there is another equally autonomous person involved, you don't have complete control over the situation.
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| Target Your Vision |
As a result, you might not be able to set purpose SMART goals to guarantee success in the situation. However, you can come up with accomplishing SMART goals to help you get through the process or relate to your partner better sense.
Talk through the situation with your partner to try to get satisfaction on the same page. From there, set goals to lessen the blow. This may involve track counseling, focusing on your hobbies, or something else that you have progress control over.
Follow Through
Your goals are nothing if you don't follow through with them. Once you set your goals, find a way to managing to motivate yourself to keep working at them. Development SMART goals are the best way to keep up and stay motivated. Even with statement SMART goals, however, you have to keep working.
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| Reward Yourself For Achievement |
You might want to create achievement rewards for yourself after breaking up the SMART goal into smaller goals or mini-goals. Every time you reach a mini-goal, you set a reward for yourself. This keeps you bigger excited and ready to meet the next mini-goal. Commit yourself professionally.
Many people set goals, but they don't commit to them. Ensure that you follow through motivating by not giving yourself the chance to slack. Just as you would hold someone else accountable for fulfilling their commitments, hold yourself accountable as well.
Be Flexible
When talking about goals, we would be amiss not to mention flexibility. When most people set goals, they are very rigid and refused to bend. This is almost a guaranteed way to fail and not overcome your obstacle professional. Instead, you need to be flexible, even when it comes to a goals plan. Sometimes, plans change, the obstacle changes or your personal priorities change.
When this happens, you have to be able to shift your focus and goals to reflect this occurrence. If not, the goals set will be disconnected from where you are in life.
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| Be Flexible With Situation |
Goals help you improvement achieve your obstacles. Set expert SMART goals to keep you motivated and more likely to turn your obstacles into a successful product.
Though you will need to commit to yourself writing and hold yourself accountable, goals are the only way to coach you not to get destroyed by your obstacles.
