SETTING GOALS.
Miss: Mildred Matamoros HELEN ELVIR
Setting Goals: Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality. The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray. When you set goals for yourself, it is important that they motivate you: this means making sure that they are important to you, and that there is value in achieving them. If you have little interest in the outcome, or they are irrelevant given the larger picture, then the chances of you putting in the work to make them happen are slim. Motivation is key to achieving goals.
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pecific Goals:
The criterion stresses the need for a specific goal rather than a more general one. This means the goal is clear and unambiguous; without vagaries and platitudes. To make goals specific, they must tell a team exactly what's expected, why it's important, who’s involved, where it's going to happen and which attributes are important. Your goal must be clear and well defined. Vague or generalized goals are unhelpful because they don't provide sufficient direction. Remember, you need goals to show you the way. Make it as easy as you can to get where you want to go by defining precisely where you want to end up.
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easurable goals:
The second criterion stresses the need for concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of the goal. The thought behind this is that if a goal is not measurable it is not possible to know whether a team is making progress toward successful completion. Measuring progress is supposed to help a team stay on track, reach its target dates and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs it on to continued effort required to reach the ultimate goal. Setting measurable goals is another one of the keys in the SMART goal setting process. After all if we don't know or are uncertain about what we are doing or how we are managing it how can we hope to accomplish the task we have set ourselves?
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ttainable goals:
Attainable goals is another natural step in the SMART setting goal process. With attainment we are now focusing on how we can make the goal come true in our life. Some people call this the achievable step rather than the attainable step. There is not much to choose between them. (As long as we understand what we mean that is the most important thing, is it not?) The third criterion stresses the importance of goals that are realistic and also attainable. Whilst an attainable goal may stretch a team in order to achieve it, the goal is not extreme. That is, the goals are neither out of reach nor below standard performance, since these may be considered meaningless. When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills and financial capacity to reach them.
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elevant goals
Relevant goals (when met) drive the team, department and organization forward. A goal that supports or is in alignment with other goals would be considered a relevant goal. Relevant are what we need. We can dream of flying jumbo jets, driving Bugatti Veyron’s, walking on Mars, travelling at the speed of light, having a billion dollars in the bank, or other such unreachable objectives . Those aims are just completely out of sight - and we can have a perfectly enjoyable life without them anyway.
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imely goals:
Timely goals. Sounds OK, but we want things now - right? In a timely fashion rolls off the tongue but we get impatient. But timely wins the day. When things happen in their own time - with a little help from us - we can look back and see that our life is really working out and advancements are being made. And that we are maturing and improving into the person we have always wanted to be. A time-bound goal is intended to establish a sense of urgency.
5 short term goals: Do homework for tomorrow Study for the next week Draw tomorrow Finish my project Go to the doctor
5 Long term goals Have a good work in a future Graduate from college Be a doctor Take dance class Have my own business