Building the Goal-Setting Table: From Desires to Rated Goals
The first step in setting goals is to specify your demands. In this step, you can determine your goals smartly by preparing a 4-column table through 4 steps. First, you specify the general goals, and then, discuss it in more detail. When you are going to do something, you need to be constantly taking notes or keeping records on a piece of paper or on your mobile phone, personal computer or any other electronic gadgets. Provide a draft of a set of general objectives.
Add a third column titled valuation to the table of your goals. Based on what you have written in the second column, and considering the level of interest, motivation, and seriousness that you have for each goal to be met, determine how effective each goal is in your future or your business, and what score can it be given from 1 to 100? Sometimes people may set goals to gain parental consent or community approval. However, they have to specify which of those goals they really want to achieve because of their personal interest and why they must achieve the goal at a particular time.
You need to know what goals are your real desires, rather than the other people’s intentions.
Your goals might be influenced by the outward appearance of the other peoples life. This should be reconsidered during the evaluation procedures. Therefore, in the third column, rate the effectiveness of goals in the future you have depicted for yourself. How important are each of these goals in your life?
To earn $1 million- with the presupposed details -, for instance, you can give a score from 1 to 100. Similarly, give the next goal, which might be, for instance, having an office with specific features a score from 1 to 100.
Writing goals is not restricted to a specific time. This must be done over time and can span over a long period of time. Therefore, take enough time for it.
You may be able to complete most parts of the first and second columns in the first half-hour, but you need to complete it over time.
In the fourth column, you must specify the time to reach each goal. Your goal must be time bound. Otherwise, you might postpone the tasks, and you may never even deal with the goal, let alone achieve it.
So far, you have applied the five principles of smart goals in this table; i.e., you have set specified, measurable, realistic, and attainable goals to be achieved within a specific time, and in this way, you will ultimately have a refined version.