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write measurable goals

This post was written by DoctorJay on January 5, 2010
Posted Under: goal achievement

This is the M of SMART goals:

Have a way of measuring the achievement of your goals. Here again we are talking about making your goals more precise. The goal seeking mechanism in human beings is mainly the unconscious mind which needs precise directions. This is where measurable goals come into their own.

As we mentioned before if your goal is to make more money you will be successful at achieving your goal even if you make a single dollar more. However, if you set a goal of making $10,000.00 more a year, you know your target and know where to aim for.

Once you have used these nine guidelines to producing your well written goal, and you know where you are going you need to understand the stages of achieving your goal.

As Lao Tsu said a journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So once you have written your goals down start and take action.

Do something immediately to move you toward your goal. Now that you have begun, continue and remember to be flexible. You know your final outcome. If you do something and it does not bring you nearer to your goal, do something else. Be like the pilots who know their goal and keep making midcourse corrections until they arrive at their destination.

Understand that there is no such thing as failure but there are only results.

Like Thomas Edison, persist in succeeding producing results and you will reach all your reasonable goals. It is important to know that most of us have goals which are too small rather than too large.

Think about this: “It is better to aim for the moon and hit an eagle than to aim for an eagle and hit a crow.”

However at the same time if you aim for the stars – an impossible goal – chances are you’ll not even take that decisive first step.

So you really need to hit the sweet spot to make the goal challenging but not so difficult. However, you need to get feedback and have flexibility to change the difficulty of your goal appropriately to keep in that sweet spot. An thus so long as you keep getting feedback and alter the challenge so you remain in the sweet spot your original goal can be way too easy or difficult and you would hit your sweet spot quite quickly.