Setting personal and professional goals is an important skill in advancing and propelling your life forward. When setting goals, be sure they are specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant to your life and have time constraints.
If you can make your goals match these specifications, you will have a higher success rate in achieving them. Tracking your goal is another factor that will help to ensure your success. Now that you have good goals set and you are tracking your progress, it’s crucial to remember that goals should be fluid.
No one is perfect, sometimes goals are not met or they are not met in the allotted time frame, and that is okay. As people, we change over time and so your goals will too.
Goals can, and should be adjustable as often as needed. Whether you are changing your long-term or short-term goals, goal fluidity might feel stressful or risky.
👉 One key to good goal setting is that the goal must apply to your life. So, aligning your goals with your current life is crucial. And though a shift may feel uncomfortable, it’s sometimes necessary. Think critically about what you really want in life, and if your current goals no longer match up, it may be time to adjust as needed. There are many potential reasons your goals may need adjusting.
✅ Newly discovered information or connections that have opened the possibility of a new goal – Life is full of new experiences, new people, and new ideas. You may run into something along the path of your current goal that interests you more or changes your mind away from the current goal.
✅ Mistakes or disappointments – It’s possible that even if you have done everything right in attempting to achieve your goal, it just doesn’t work out. Failure is a part of life. You may realize that the goal was not as attainable as you once thought, or that the effort and time it will take is not worth the potential result.
✅ Life changes – Everyone’s life is subject to change at any moment. Maybe you will move to a new area, get married, get pregnant, have a death in the family; whatever it is, your goals should align with your current life status.
Even though it’s human nature to resist change, nothing in life ever stays stagnant. So, instead of fighting change, make it work for you. Embracing change means training yourself for the ability to see upcoming opportunities, to be flexible and to keep an open mind. New opportunities and connections may arise that are more helpful than the current plans you have, so remain flexible and open. 🎉
Besides changing your goals all together, your goals will need small tweaks along the way to make sure they are still working well for you. While you are tracking your progress, it’s important to self analyze.
❓ Ask yourself if you’re still happy, excited and motivated towards your goal.
❓ Have there been any roadblocks along the way that can be planned for or avoided moving forward?
❓ Are there any improvements to the timing, tracking, or rewards system that you are using?
If so, make changes to make sure that your goal is still workable and relevant. Setting new goals should be a part of your change, growth and advancement. Building onto your current goals will help you pinpoint what you really want to achieve. Setting new goals and revising current goals will help to ensure that you are striving to improve yourself, and your life. 🎉 🥳
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