5 GOLDEN RULES OF GOAL SETTING FOR TIME MANAGEMENT (Hacks & Tips And Tricks)

5 GOLDEN RULES OF GOAL SETTING FOR TIME MANAGEMENT (Hacks & Tips And Tricks)

Editor: Dr. Barış Tunçbilek

THE GOLDEN RULES OF GOAL SETTING

Have you considered what you'll be doing in two, five, or ten years? How can you be certain about your primary goal at work right now? Do you realize what you want to accomplish at the end of each day?

Setting objectives is essential if you want to achieve. You lose concentration and drive when you don't have objectives. Setting goals not only enables you to take charge of your life's path, but it also gives you a baseline for evaluating whether or not you are succeeding. Consider this: having a million dollars in the bank is only evidence of success if one of your objectives is to accumulate wealth. If your aim is to do charitable actions, then retaining the money for yourself is suddenly contradictory to how you define success.

Nevertheless, in order to achieve your objectives, you must first understand how to establish them. You can't just say, "I want," and expect it to come true. Setting goals is a process that begins with serious thought of what you want to achieve and concludes with a lot of hard effort to actually accomplish it. There are certain pretty well-defined stages in between that transcend the details of each objective. Knowing these stages will enable you to set objectives that you can achieve.

The Five Golden Principles

1. Establish Goals That Encourage You

When you establish goals for yourself, it is critical that they inspire you: this implies that they are meaningful to you and that there is value in attaining them. If you have little interest in the result, or if it is unimportant in the grand scheme of things, the odds of you putting in the effort to make it happen are low. The importance of motivation in accomplishing objectives cannot be overstated.

Set objectives that are related to your top priorities in life. Without all of this concentration, you may wind up with far too many objectives, providing you with very little time to dedicate to each one. Goal accomplishment requires commitment; thus, to increase your chances of success, you must have a feeling of urgency and have a "I must do this" mentality. If you don't have this, you risk putting off the necessary steps to make the objective a reality. As a result, you are left feeling dissatisfied and angry with yourself, both of which are demotivating. And you may wind yourself in a negative "I can't accomplish anything or be successful at anything" mindset.

Lay out why your objective is significant and essential to you to ensure that it is inspiring. "If I were to share my objective with others, what would I say them to persuade them that it was a worthy goal?" You may use this motivational value statement to assist you whenever you begin to question yourself or lose faith in your abilities to achieve your objective.

2. Establish SMARTER Goals

After you've assessed your position, the following stage is to establish your objectives. There are many approaches to this, one of which is the S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting technique.

S is an abbreviation for SPECIFIC.

A goal must be meticulously defined. The more precise your objective, the clearer and more doable it will be to achieve.

Consider someone who wants to start a successful blog.

It is easy to start a blog: choose a platform, set up hosting, register your domain, design the website, and post your first piece.

Why, therefore, do millions of blogs fail or get abandoned?

They begin with no particular purpose in mind (or any goal for that matter).

How would you know how to achieve your objective if it is hazy? Worse, how will you know whether you're making progress toward your goal?

Here are some instances of broad, non-specific objectives:

i. I'd want to have a successful blog.

ii. I'd want to have greater freedom.

iii.I'd want to earn a million bucks.

iv. I want to lose weight.

v. I'd want to have better connections.

Rather than lofty clichés, consider include answers to queries such as what, who, why, where, when, how much, and how frequently.

In our example of a successful blog, you might ask:

i. What exactly am I writing about?

ii. To whom am I writing?

iii. What is the purpose of this blog?

iv. Where should I make a strong impression?

v. When and how often can I post?

vi. What should the length of each post be?

M DEFINES MEASURABLE.

Most individuals establish their objectives using superlative words like "best" or "most" and then leave it at that.

Objectives must be quantifiable so that you can monitor your progress and assess your techniques on a regular basis. When feasible, use figures, statistics, or specific goals.