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Previous Article - What Is Effective Goal Setting? ---------- Most experts in goal setting agree that the way in which you set your goals determines their effectiveness. There are a number of guidelines that you can use to make your goal setting more beneficial.

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You have probably come across many articles, books, and audios that stress the importance of setting goals. Hopefully, you have taken the time to sit down and write out goals for yourself. But are you writing SMART goals? SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time Related.

If your goals are specific, they will be set up with a specific time frame in mind and a deadline of when they must be accomplished. They will also be clearly written out so you know exactly what you want to do. For example, if your goal is to earn income working from home, you could make it more specific by saying you want to earn a steady income of $500 within the next two months. Your goal will be easier to reach that way.

It is important to have Measurable Goals, as they will help you track your progress. If a goal is not measurable, it will be very hard to define when you have actually achieved it. In the example above, by defining how much income you want to earn and giving it a time frame, you will know instantly when those sixty days are over if you have achieved the goal.

An Attainable Goal is a goal you know you can achieve. Don't be fooled by the word "attainable". It can still be a challenging goal and require effort to achieve it, but it does need to be something you can do. For instance, if your goal is to learn to build websites and you have absolutely no experience, your goal shouldn't be to build a huge, portal website in a week.

Learning how to use web design software and then developing a small website is an attainable goal related to web design. If you pressure yourself to reach goals that are not reasonably attainable you will only frustrate yourself and that will lead to the bad habit of procrastination due to being afraid of failing.

Your goals need to be realistic as well. In the first mentioned example of earning $500 a month in the next two months, this goal could be made quite unrealistic if it was changed to earning $500 within the next week.

If you are new to working from home, it may take some time for your business to be profitable. Instead of setting one huge goal, break the goal down into manageable "mini-goals".

All the example goals given are time related. You will be more motivated to accomplish your goals if you have a specific time scheduled to complete them. Procrastination is far easier to fall into if your goals are not set with a time to reach them in mind. Time related goals will move you to reach them quickly.

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