Matching Goals to Your Facilities and Setting Priorities
In the next step, you need to see which of the goals you have written are proportionate to your facilities and whether you are able to achieve them. This stage is a comparison between interests and the possibility to achieve them. Are the goals compatible with your mood? In fact, here you compare the goal with your peculiar personal characteristics and what is actually at your disposal.
In the third step, prioritize goals based on scores you gave to their effectiveness in your life or business (step three in the previous step). Write the goals with the highest impact on your life and work at the top of the list, and the goals with the least effect at the bottom of the list. In fact, the highest goal should be your most effective goal and follow the smart goal principles.
The regulation basis of the goal-setting table is to write the goals down in a smart method. This can be done in a simple way. You are not going to follow complex techniques that will make it harder to understand and do.
Now the second version of the list of goals, which has been written in a more orderly manner, is prepared. It is time to see how compatible these goals are with smart goal principles. If a goal is not compatible with these five principles, it is not right and it should be included in the “wish list”.
What was described in the previous section is a concise version of the specified and open-source formula of SELF, which is thoroughly explained in my other book, “The Roadmap of Self-knowledge and Goal Setting”. According to this formula, you can achieve the most optimized solution for all aspects of your life, whether personal or business, with a similar but more detailed analytical method. Since the SELF formula is open source –i.e., it can be generalized to various aspects– it is recommended to read this formula thoroughly and carefully by referring to the book “The Roadmap of Self-knowledge and Goal Setting”.