Setting Goals

Most CEO's, Managers, Supervisors, and Organizational Trainers (which was my area of consulting) believe that there are seven rules to follow when setting goals.

First -  Think about the results you want to see. Before you set a goal, take a closer look at what you're trying to achieve and ask yourself the following questions: ...

Second -  Create SMART goals. ...

S - SPECIFIC

M - MEASURABLE

A - ATTAINABLE

R - REALISTIC

T - TIMEBOUND --  ties to the 5th rule (see below)

Third -  Write your goals down. ...

Fourth -  Create an action plan. ...

Fifth -  Create a timeline. ...

Sixth -  Take action. ...

Seventh -  Re-evaluate and assess your progress...

Let's suppose that someone wants to loose 60 pounds from their current weight in 12 months.

Rule 1 - we have thought about this result

Rule 2 - this goal is SMART in all the 5 categories and is 5 pound/month

Rule 3 - this goal has been written down

Rule 4 - this goal involves exercise, eating healthy, proper sleeping, and not being a couch potato

Rule 5 - using a calendar we can create a losing timeline of 5 pounds each month and can record both the goal and the actual as a way of keeping track of our goal and our progress.  We can also create documents that would record our various daily exercises and if we do them as well as what we eat and how much, watching either our calories, carbs, or fat grams or all three.

Rule 6 - this simply involves having the motivation to carry out our action plan

Rule 7 -  since we are recording daily and monthly we can monitor our progress and make any course corrections that need to take place.

KEY:  

ONLY YOU CAN MOTIVATE YOURSELF