How to achieve goals fun way: Tips of setting smart, effective goal

Do you want to achieve your goals? Do it in a fun way. You have to set your goal in a smart and effective way before achieving it. Whether your goals be personal, social, business or organizational goal set it smartly and effectively. Be smart and keep it simple.

Everyone knows importance of setting goals. However, most of them fail to set their goals. A worldwide survey shows that only two percent of the people set their goals and only one percent achieve their goals. This is surprising but true!!

You can be among this two percent if you just set your goal. You can leave those 98 percent of the people behind just by setting your goal! Do it in a smart, effective and fun way.

This article will provide you several tips of setting smart and effective goals and achieving them in a fun way. Make your goal setting a fun with these tips. Moreover achieve them smartly and effectively. Be simple. Be specific.

All these are fun!!

There is a worldwide tradition of making "New Year's Resolutions". People observe this as a tradition. The tradition was actually made to motivate and encourage people to set their goals. People in theUS and European Union mostly follow this tradition. However, it loses its significance when one does it as a ritual without having a real motif to set and achieve a smart goal. It is advisable to make this "New Year's Resolutions" in the spring instead of 1^st January, the New Year day.

It is extreme cold in the European Union and the US that is a dull season. People lose all their energy in celebrating Christmas and the New Year eve. It is not a suitable time to set smart goals while losing all of your energy. It is better to have a fun mood, good season and energetic mind before setting smart and effective goal.

Indian New Year comes in the spring. Therefore People in India can set their "New Year's Resolutions" on their New Year day.

Everybody has dreams. However, they can not convert their dreams into achievements. Dreaming is only the first step of achieving goal. You need to do much more than to dream to achieve your goals.

Four Ds

Dream

Desire

Dedication

Destination

You have to convert your dreams into desires. Dream is imagination. Desire is a strong will to achieve your dream. Desire is specific and targeted whereas dream is vague. You have to support your desire dedicated work. Your dedication will lead you to your destination (Goal). This is smart and effective way of achieving goals. While dream and desire help you in setting your smart and effective goals dedication works as a strong tool to achieve your goals.

What more do you need to achieve your goals after setting smart and effective goals? You need four Cs to achieve it.

Four Cs

Competence

Confidence

Control

Challenge

The first thing you need is competence. You can not achieve anything without competence. If you do not have enough competence for achieving your goals acquire it. Competence brings confidence and a confident person can achieve desired goals.

You have to exercise control. Control over yourself. You can control people, situations only if you have internal locus of control. Control your instincts, control your emotions to take control of your situations.This will help you tremendously in achieving your goals.

Take challenges. Do not escape from setting higher and harder goals. Take challenges as fun! Motivate yourself to take challenges and achieve. The winners take challenges and accomplish them.

Spend some time thinking of who you are

First of all spend some time thinking of who you are. You set your goal for future and your future is closely related to your past and present. Think of yourself, your skills, education, training, experience and qualities. Think of your abilities and potentials. These will not only help you setting your goal but also give you the strength to achieve this goal. This is fun way!

Thinking about yourself will help you setting realistic goals and not imaginary ones.

Brainstorm different areas of your life. Choosing Goals through Questioning

While thinking about yourself you can use brainstorming method. It will help you looking into different areas of your life. It will show your pros and cons of your life. It will show your strengths and weaknesses. Ask yourself what will you do while solving your problems and meeting your smart goal. Ask yourself what you will do to reach your goal.

All these will be extremely helpful in setting your smart and effective goal. Please be careful while questioning. Do not set imaginary, unachievable goals.

Write down your goals! Be specific.

Write down your goals. Remember that the “Faintest ink is better than the best memory”. Thoughts are bubbles that vanishes shortly. Manage your scattered thoughts and crystallize. You can organize all your thoughts while writing. You can also find loop holes while writing down. Be specific while setting your goals. Ask yourself how exactly you will do this.

It is smart writing a statement than to write a story while setting a smart and effective goal. Write your goals as positive statements. It is better to write your statement in a positive sentence, Negative sentences affect negatively on your mind.

Set a long term goal. This is necessary. The smart and effective way to achieve your long term goal is to break down your long-term goal into short term manageable pieces.

I am using the word "SMART" with the word goal. There are five letters in the word SMART and these are significant. You can think of the words starting from the letters of Smart.

• S - Significant
• M- Meaningful
• A - Action-Oriented
• R - Rewarding
• T – Traceable

Or

• S - Specific
• M - Measurable
• A - Attainable
• R - Relevant
• T - Time-bound

There is a well said proverb “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”.

This self explanatory proverb indicates significance of a plan. Most of the people work hard to achieve their goal without preparing a plan. Sometimes people make schedules or even a procedure assume these as plan. However, a plan is much more than a schedule or a procedure.

A plan is a set of integrated procedures made to achieve a desired goal. It is very important to prepare a plan in order to achieve a desired goal.

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prepare your plan efficiently and effectively. A smart plan help you achieving your goals. Check it several times for its efficiency and effectiveness. Review it before implementing. Show it to experts, take their tips and advise to correct it.

Make action plans along with your plan to achieve your goal in efficient way. Follow PDCA Plan, Do, Check, Act principle.

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