Aristotle once said;“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only
has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goal.” As such, I
believe one of the critical skills to master in order to achieve breakthrough in life is goal
setting. Once we’ve turn the process of setting goals to a skill, it will surely make
a great impact on our life.
Goal setting allows us
to identify what is important in our daily living and turn our thoughts and ideas into reality.
It empowers us to decide what is our meaning of life, determine what we want
to achieve, be motivated and gain self-confidence as and when we achieve
it.
The process of creating
a well-thought goal must be supported with energy, enthusiasm, commitment
and effort. If it is practiced poorly, goal setting could
cause serious downside effects which can undermine our success in execution. For example, poor
goal setting could makes us become cynical, self procrastinating and fosters
confusion about where to concentrate our actions and energy.
The key to setting
the right, quality goals has to be SMART;
S = Specific
M = Measureable
A = Achievable
R = Realistic
T = Time Bound
And without having
these SMART goals, it’s very easy that we let our life deteriorate to a state
of "just living without real meaning and breakthrough success".
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