One of my goals this year was to write a daily journal of my daily activities but unfortunately I've already broken that. At work I was tasked with writing my accomplishments of 2010 and my goals and objectives for 2011. I hate doing this because it's always difficult to come up with a vision for what I hope to accomplish during the next year. Without goals however you have no focus and you never accomplish anything. If I don't set goals for my personal time I never accomplish anything. Did I complete my to do list for this past week? I wrote down five goals and I completed three and 1/2. The project basket still needs to be organized and there are still a few clothes that need to come out of the closet space that I want organized. In our training for goal setting this past week HR gave us something to guide us as we set our goals for the year.
A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART methodology. While there are plenty of variants (some of which we've included in parenthesis), SMART usually stands for:
- S - Specific (or Significant).
- M - Measurable (or Meaningful).
- A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
- R - Relevant (or Rewarding).
- T - Time-bound (or Trackable).
I'll try that approach for this week.
S - Write in my journal (blog)
M - Write 4 out of 7 days
A - Should include a goal of the day or photo of the day
R - Must be relevant to the day's experience or activity
T - Should be complete prior to midnight of that day
Quote for the day:
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
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