| Sometimes, on my workshops, I will ask people to | | | | fundamentally related concepts of Vision, Mission and |
| write down their three of four most important goals. It's | | | | Goals. It is not necessary for you to quantify your |
| a constant source of amazement to me when some | | | | Vision and Mission in this way, but for those important |
| people sit there wondering what to write because it | | | | goals, you should indeed ensure they pass this simple |
| strikes me that, if you have set your goals properly, | | | | test because each individual goal, in essence, should |
| you should have absolutely no problem writing them | | | | represent an individual step along the way to achieving |
| down right off the top of your head. | | | | your Mission and Vision. |
| But it seems that many people who think they have | | | | This process of goal setting is used by all top-athletes |
| goals actually don't have goals at all. In fact, this used | | | | and high-achievers everywhere, without exception. On |
| to be true of me also - I used to think I had goals when | | | | one occasion, when attending a talk by the Olympic |
| in reality, I had not properly defined them. The first step | | | | athlete, Roger Black, I learned that top athletes actually |
| to achieving your goals is to get them properly defined, | | | | set both performance and outcome goals. |
| so this is an important step in goal achievement - | | | | This was a really interesting revelation for me. Most |
| essentially, your goals should be SMART; that is... | | | | people who set goals in business, it seems, tend to set |
| S - Specific | | | | outcome goals rather than performance goals. |
| M - Measureable | | | | Learning to set both outcome and performance goals |
| A - Achievable | | | | helps to get people naturally focused on the targeted |
| R - Realistic | | | | action that leads to goal-achievement. |
| T - Time-Tabled | | | | So you see, when your goals are properly defined, |
| If your goals fail on these criteria, they are quite simply, | | | | they are very easy to break down into the specific |
| not properly defined. | | | | steps or actions that need to be accomplished over |
| There is a great deal of difference between the | | | | the course of time. |
