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22 months ago
Need to do this!!! I have a really hard time doing though.
How to revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
It made me
on the right track 
"A great feeling and now I feel like I have a road map to follow."
How I did it: I sat down and thought of each goal and what they mean to me, what connection each goal has to the other goals, what I need to do for each goal and how much time each one will take. I also figured out what it would cost to make each one happen. I then put each one into a Gantt chart so that I have a snap shot of the big picture.
Lessons & tips: Make Your goals S.M.A.R.T:
Specific - A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six "W" questions: *Who: Who is involved?
*What: What do I want to accomplish?
*Where: Identify a location.
*When: Establish a time frame.
*Which: Identify requirements and constraints.
*Why: Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal. EXAMPLE: A general goal would be, "Get in shape." But a specific goal would say, "Join a health club and workout 3 days a week." 
Measurable - Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set. When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs you on to continued effort required to reach your goal. To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as......How much? How many? How will I know when it is accomplished?
Attainable - When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals. You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that may have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. When you list your goals you build your self-image. You see yourself as worthy of these goals, and develop the traits and personality that allow you to possess them.
Realistic - To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be. But be sure that every goal represents substantial progress. A high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Some of the hardest jobs you ever accomplished actually seem easy simply because they were a labor of love. Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be accomplished. Additional ways to know if your goal is realistic is to determine if you have accomplished anything similar in the past or ask yourself what conditions would have to exist to accomplish this goal.
Timely - A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there's no sense of urgency. If you want to lose 10 lbs, when do you want to lose it by? "Someday" won't work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, "by May 1st", then you've set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal. T can also stand for Tangible - A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the senses, that is, taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing. When your goal is tangible you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable and thus attainable.
Resources: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
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2 years ago
... do you have a ‘life list’? You know, a list of all the things you want to do at some point during your time here on earth? Today, sit down and either get a life list started, or review your progress on your existing list. Have you gone skydiving yet? (Do you really want to?). Check in with your ambitions. Where do you want to explore? The first step toward making it happen is thinking about making it happen. Use your imagination.
Is life telling me to get cracking? Too bad I don’t believe in horoscopes.
Abigail and her little gray cat.
Accomplished!
2 years ago
I’ve moved goals to the appropriate pages and cleaned up the language of some other goals to make them fit the SMART model better. I’m pleased to have changed my list, because now I can feel like I am taking concrete steps toward an end goal, or I can feel truly accomplished when I check something off. Worth doing!
I agree to some extent
2 years ago
Whoever was the first to adapt this goal had a good point. I think a good goal should be...
...achievable. Setting high standards is one way to get good results but goals should be realistic. It is discouraging when a goal that you’ve been working with turns out to be impossible. Setting achievable goals reduces the possibility of failure.
...specific enough so that you know when you have achieved it. For example, a goal like “visit my parents more often” is not a good one, because there is no point of reference as to what counts as “more often”. A better goal would be something like “visit my parents at least twice every month during this year”.
...time-constrained, because you can never know what happens in the future. I can’t mark a goal like “stretch every day” done, because I know that there will be days when I don’t stretch.
Please bear in mind that these are just my opinions on what goals should be like. If you now go and take look at my list of goals, you will find out that I, too, have some ambiguous or abstract goals that do not follow these guidelines of mine.
The point is that I always consider these things before adding anything to my list. Goals like “relax” and “be more social” are good because they remind me of what I want to change in myself. The important thing with ambiguous goals like those is to write entries that make them more specific.
The conclusion for me is that most goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, etc, but it can be useful to have a couple of more abstract ones, too; as long as there aren’t too many of them.
rossgram is driving to Dayton, Ohio.
I realized this just had to be done.
3 years ago
I can make vague statements like “Call my Grandpa more” all year long, and it will never happen. This realization has led me to add this goal to my list.
Gotta keep ‘em specific, measurable, realistic and bound by time. Glad to see other people have thought the same thing.
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4 years ago
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Goal Setting Made Easy:
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Lots of work!
4 years ago
There needs to be a balance at least for me between the goals that I need to make S.M.A.R.T. and the ones where I can just be general about, maybe that would be the difference between Goals and Objectives… Example being, a goal of mine today was to go over all of my goals and update as necessary, but I don’t even have that as a goal here…
Oh well, I gues I can do my thing however, as long as my goals are in alignment with my mission statement…
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with some minor tweaks
4 years ago
I went through and “tagged” all the goals with deadlines (i.e. “deadline- August 2006”). That way I can keep the goals that are broader but have more participants. I was worried that making them all too me-specific would get me out of the 43 things flow.
