Goal Setting: Characteristics 2
So, you have decided to be a great leader with enormous influence that will help you steer your community in the path of progress and development; and you have been specific about your goal? Great! This morning, we will discuss two additional characteristics of a great goal.
Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. My name is Abiodun Fijabi
I am sure you still remember the SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Attainable and Actionable, Realistic and Tangible goals. Now, your goal must also be measurable. It is not just enough that you want to be a great leader with specific or clear and practical idea as to which kind of a leader you want to be. Your goal must be such that allows you to measure the progress you have made in achieving it. As Paul Meyer has said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t monitor it.” You might simply say, “I want to be an influential and world-renowned cardiologist or an owner of a business conglomerate of companies with product or services that advance the society.” That is specific, but not adequate to periodic measurement. Your goal to be measurable must not only answer the question what but also when. If you say, “My goal is to become an influential business leader by the time I am 40 years old,” your goal is specific and measurable.
That kind of a goal gears you into action and not into complacency. Because your goal is measurable you can monitor it. And if you can monitor it, you can be sure if you are making progress or not. This is motivating in itself. You are likely to be excited by your progress and challenged by your lack of it. Whichever is the case, you are on the go. And that helps. I promise you, it is the kind of a goal you want to have.
Beyond being measurable, your goal must be attainable and actionable. It must incorporate or generate action. It must be such that suggests steps or activities needed to take you to a desired end. For example, you might decide on a goal to study 20 world distinguished political leaders in 20 months. That is a specific and measurable. It is also attainable and actionable as it can easily generate action steps. One obvious step is to study one leader a month. This is unlike a goal that is just out to study world distinguished political leaders. This goal does not incorporate or generate action steps. It is unlikely to drive you into taking the necessary actions. Dear listener, a goal is about action. It should obviously be preceded by wide and deep thinking and sustained by good thinking. But it fails if to be a goal if it remains just a thought, a theory or a proposal. It must be such that leads you to actions and propel you to definite and beneficial activities.
Make your life goal and every goal you will make in the pursuit of your vision measurable, attainable and actionable. That is the only way you can generate that energy that will launch you into action steps into your beneficial future.
Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. My name is Abiodun Fijabi
I am sure you still remember the SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Attainable and Actionable, Realistic and Tangible goals. Now, your goal must also be measurable. It is not just enough that you want to be a great leader with specific or clear and practical idea as to which kind of a leader you want to be. Your goal must be such that allows you to measure the progress you have made in achieving it. As Paul Meyer has said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t monitor it.” You might simply say, “I want to be an influential and world-renowned cardiologist or an owner of a business conglomerate of companies with product or services that advance the society.” That is specific, but not adequate to periodic measurement. Your goal to be measurable must not only answer the question what but also when. If you say, “My goal is to become an influential business leader by the time I am 40 years old,” your goal is specific and measurable.
That kind of a goal gears you into action and not into complacency. Because your goal is measurable you can monitor it. And if you can monitor it, you can be sure if you are making progress or not. This is motivating in itself. You are likely to be excited by your progress and challenged by your lack of it. Whichever is the case, you are on the go. And that helps. I promise you, it is the kind of a goal you want to have.
Beyond being measurable, your goal must be attainable and actionable. It must incorporate or generate action. It must be such that suggests steps or activities needed to take you to a desired end. For example, you might decide on a goal to study 20 world distinguished political leaders in 20 months. That is a specific and measurable. It is also attainable and actionable as it can easily generate action steps. One obvious step is to study one leader a month. This is unlike a goal that is just out to study world distinguished political leaders. This goal does not incorporate or generate action steps. It is unlikely to drive you into taking the necessary actions. Dear listener, a goal is about action. It should obviously be preceded by wide and deep thinking and sustained by good thinking. But it fails if to be a goal if it remains just a thought, a theory or a proposal. It must be such that leads you to actions and propel you to definite and beneficial activities.
Make your life goal and every goal you will make in the pursuit of your vision measurable, attainable and actionable. That is the only way you can generate that energy that will launch you into action steps into your beneficial future.
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