Create Timely Goals

By Cheryl Wilms

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Are the goals you have created timely and tangible? These are two factors you are going to want to include in your goal setting in order to increase your chances of success.

Be specific about your time frame. Be specific with when you are going to begin working on this goal? Will it be right away, next week, next month? Do this also for your micro-goals that you have created to break up the goal to make it less overwhelming. When will they begin and how long will you give yourself to achieve those?

Having a time frame will create a sense of urgency and lessen your opportunity to procrastinate. Having a deadline will get your butt in gear and get it done. Saying you will accomplish the goal someday will be too vague and will cause one to likely put it off.

Mark it on your calendar. Make it official and that it is a priority on your calendar. Mark it in pen so that you can change it. It’s that day you must achieve it and you will do what is required of you to do so.

An example of creating a time frame for your goals.

Goal: I am going to write a book

* I am going to begin writing my book on January 1st
* My goal to be completed this goal will be August 31st

Micro-goals:

* I’m going to write 1 chapter per month, beginning from the 1st to last day of the month for each chapter
* Set up an appointment with a book publishing firm (to be done on by January 31st)
* Pick out publishing package and know how much I will have to save up for the book (to be done by February 10)
* Set up a savings account and have X amount of dollars withdrawn automatically from my accounts starting February 1st