Most people walk the street of life, wishing for manner to fall from heaven. Stop wishing; start acting by setting goals for your life and business.
Goals are things or plans an individual or organization hope to achieve.
As an individual there are certain things you want to achieve in life, business, marriage and academics
Every goals, dreams, vision is achievable, you need to follow certain step to achieve your dream,desires, targets and goals.
To achive your goals, we will use the acronym or model "SMART" in explaining how to reach your goals; which are:
💧S- Specific
💧M- Measurable
💧A- Attainable
💧R- Realistic
💧T- Time limits
Firstly , let us take a look at "Specific" your goals must be detailed, it must be exact, your goal must specify certain informations.
It must have informations that are well structured and accurately stated. Which describes all you need to achieve, within that period,you don't write your goal half hazardly.
Secondly, your goals must be "measurable" they must be clear, knowing that there is a purpose, there is an aim of writing these goals.
Don't just write ambiguous goals that you know you cannot achieve in a long time.
Your goals must be noticeable by you or the individuals around. For instance your goals is to travel from Ghana to Nigeria or from Nigeria to Gambia within a month or two, when you embark on this journey you will notice or your friends will notice you travelled.
Thirdly, your goals should be "attainable" for you to set a goals, you must be ready to accomplish them. You need to set goals you can succeed in, you must make effort to attain your goals, it is one thing to set goals, it is another thing to achieve them.
You don't just set goals because you want to set goals,there must be a reason a reational of setting those goals.
For you to set goals, you must ensure to achieve them, no matter the extent it will take you; work on your self, deny your self certain pleasure, certain comfort, in other to reach those goals.
Furthermore, your goals must be "Realistic" your goals should be feasible, viable, sensible and appropriate. Your goals are possible to achieve. Though, it will take effort, time and discipline to realize.
You don't set unrealistic goals because you want to set goals or probably, you saw somebody buy a craft; you set your goal to buy a craft in one month, when you're capacity is not able, bro, that is foolishness.
I want to be president of Nigeria in 2023, yet you don't belong to any political party, you do not belong to any ward in your local government, how do you want to be a president? come 2023 where nobody knows you! This goal is unrealistic, that is mere wish!
On the other hand, a student can set goals of make good grades in all there courses; be disciplined enough to follow through, they will certainly achieve their goals.
The last but not the least, your goals should have a "Time-Limit", there should be a time frame, or period to accomplish your goal. Your goals should be time-based, you don't set goals that will take internity to accomplish.⏲️
Your set goals could be short-term goals or long-term goals. The short term goals, could be within a period of 1- 5 years while the long term goals can take between 1 to 10 years, depending on how you define your short or long term.
But for me, I set my short-term goals between 1- 3 years while my long-term goals is 1 - 7years. So it depends on the individuals, this is subjective. But you have to set goals that are time-based🕗
Therefore, you must as a matter of urgency to set goals ,bearing in mind that your goals must be specific ,they must be measurable ,they must be attainable ,they must be realistic ,and they must have time-limits.
Thank you for reading.
it is an informative article that will help a lot of people to set a goal and act on it.thanks for inspiring us. God bless you always