How to set smart goals with built in action steps

Setting SMART Goals with built-in action-steps for getting clarity from ambiguity and vagueness

In this article you will learn the following

-36 Immutable steps for creating and setting SMART-goals

-33 steps of Goal-setting process on how to convert your vague and ambiguous desires-wants-feels into SMART goals and implementable action-steps

-3 stages [30+ steps] of how you can create pathways FOR YOUR SUCCESS OR accomplish any other large-GOAL position [an illustration to show how you can the process of SMART goal-setting by converting your vague-ambiguous-confusing desires and wants on how to go about say becoming a business-head from your current entry-level executive]

All of us dream - many of us go for our dreams with concentrated-focused-determined efforts and purpose.

At times you may find that - although you put lots of passionate efforts - you were still unable to accomplish your dreams.

Many times having SMART-goals which has built-in action-steps - and those which can be actioned by anyone - becomes the distinctive-edge or differentiating-factor in how successful you are in making your large dreams real.

36 Immutable steps for creating and setting SMART-goals

• 1.Identify - what all you want to have-want to be- want to do - in your personal, financial, health-wise, professional, social, relationships, emotional, fun-relaxation-vacations as well as in your spiritual arenas
• 2.Now assign priority to all of these wants-desires-dreams
• 3.Every goal to have different priority [meaning no two goals can have same priority]
• 4.Now select the most critical and crucial 6-goals that you must accomplish on war-footing
• 5.Now clarify your WHYs of these crucial 6-goals using the following 8 questions
• I.What would happen if you don't accomplish these - list all the major negative impacts on your life
• II.How they will create meaning in your life
• III.How these goals resonate with your core-values
• IV.What price you are paying today for not achieving these
• V.List all the ways your life will get impacted positively and powerfully - if you achieve these - note down all long-term benefits
• VI.Why so far you could not accomplish these - include all your negative beliefs-mindsets-attitudes-habits
• VII.What detrimental habits of mind are making you stuck
• VIII.What belief-change will create magnanimous changes in your life
• 6.33 steps of Goal-setting process on how to convert your vague and ambiguous desires-wants-feels into SMART goals and action-steps
• I.Choose one thing that you must accomplish - this goal should be the for which there cannot be any more avoiding
• II.Identify all elements of this goal - which are individually exclusive and collectively make your goal complete and exhaustive
• III.Create a deadline - by say giving a specific date by which you should be able to accomplish each element
• IV.Working backwards - create milestones with specific date and element
• V.Now choose one element with its date of accomplishment
• VI.Again divide this element into subcomponents again create milestones with specific date
• VII.Identify all the resources that you have - it could only be a very strong urge to make it happen
• VIII.Identify all the resources that you need
• IX.Identify all the skills-competencies-qualification-knowledge-experience that you need
• X.Identify where all you need to crowd-source or out-source
• XI.Identify who all can be your mentors
• XII.Identify all the challenges that may prevent you from accomplishing all that you want
• XIII.Now using creative-problem-solving and innovative methods - find solutions for all points from VIth to XIIth
• XIV.Now put them into your schedule - by working backwards to get the action-steps from end-date till your today's action
• XV.Ensure that they don't feel like burden - ONLY - a little stretch
• XVI.You should be having fun and have to make sure that your life has got kind of balance between toil and fun
• XVII.Make learning and upgrading yourself as not only fun but your nature
• XVIII.Ensure that all the actions are these which are perfectly within your area of control
• XIX.Create a simple monitoring and tracking tool like 1-31 sheet
• XX.Then start living your that part of life - which you have scheduled and ear-marked for taking-actions - based on your TO-DO list
• XXI.Create priorities and spend your maximum time doing quadrant 2ndactivities of Urgent-important matrix
• XXII.NOW Start implementing and tracking
• XXIII.Shift anything that you could not do today to the next date you can accommodate
• XXIV.Be flexible to change your schedule as per newer priorities
• XXV.Learn to improvise and pivot when something is not working
• XXVI.Celebrate all your major milestones
• XXVII.Periodically review your longer term plans - add and modify them to incorporate your changing priorities in life
• XXVIII.Learn to build-up your resilience by - treating failures as inevitable time-to-time happenings - plus learn to bounce-back by restarting
• XXIX.Help others become winners
• XXX.Work for causes - to gain different perspectives
• XXXI.Keep the company of people who are smarter and more accomplished than you
• XXXII.Find ways to add value to your Mentors - big-time
• XXXIII.Dream bigger and bigger and then go an implement them
• XXXIV.Develop a mindset to challenge your status-quo, raise your levels of excellence , your levels of accomplishment and you levels of capabilities - fun and thrilling
• 3 stages [30+ steps] of how you can create pathways FOR YOUR SUCCESS OR accomplish any other large-GOAL position [an illustration to show how you can the process of SMART goal-setting by converting your vague-ambiguous-confusing desires and wants on how to go about say becoming a business-head from your current entry-level executive]
• 1.In this example I am taking a hypothetical working executive - who is a graduate or even school or college drop-out and is of 24 years with experience of about 3 years at the entry-level job
• 2.This person has a dream of becoming the plant or business head of a reasonably good organization say of
• 3.Let us put some measurable elements in this dream - say this person wants to become a General-manager/Vice-President in say next 15-20 years' time
• 4.Stage 1 Now let us identify all the elements of professional growth - the following are must - given randomly
• I.Qualifications - let us assume Technical and management both are needed
• II.Experience of progressively rising roles and responsibilities
• III.Exposure of handing multiple disruptive crisis and changes
• IV.Expertise which brings out this person's strengths-values-leadership - these have to be seen when going through their track-record - through real time milestones and accomplishments
• V.Demonstration-of and continuous polishing of essential soft-skills - like - creativity-innovation, problem-solving, risk-taking, accepting-accountability, decision-making, taking-initiative, being a team-working, conflict-resolution, communication, professionalism, negotiation, values that this person stands-up for etc.
• VI.Knowledge - enhancing knowledge and awareness about what is happening your business and industry as well as in other field
• VII.Borrowing the best practices of other fields and global-best organizations into your
• VIII.Creating a powerful and positive personal-brand
• IX.Getting a mentor and God-father
• X.Becoming visible - in the eyes of senior-leaders, in the professional-circle - in the sight of the movers-shakers, being on the radar of big-consultants - through being active in professional forums by presenting, giving-talks etc.
• XI.Having a great social-media and professional-media presence - which shows the caliber-capacity and potential
• XII.Becoming a great professional and social networker - developing a circle-of-influences
• XIII.Pro-actively seeking challenging and tough assignments
• XIV.Becoming a problem-solver by giving suggestions and actively helping to solve problems which are plaguing the business
• XV.Helping juniors grow by mentoring and coaching them
• 5.Stage 2 Now let us take one element out of above 15 - acquiring appropriate qualifications to be able to reach the desired position of power in the stipulated time
• I.Identify do you [say] need a technical qualification - which one - this has to be the line of the future
• II.Identify do you [say] need a management qualification - which one - this has to be the line of the future
• III.Identify do you [say] need any add-on qualifications or certification - which one - this has to be the line of the future and it must add unparalleled-value to you at present as well
• IV.Identify the skills that you need to develop - take the feedback of your mentors and seniors
• V.Identify which knowledge you need but lack
• VI.Identify which are your strengths which will help you acquire these qualifications, certifications and skills
• VII.Now identify - how you want to achieve this - while working and going for online-part time OR going for full time qualifications by taking a sabbatical from your job
• VIII.Go through your circumstances - will you be under tremendous financial-strain - if you go for qualifications
• IX.Find out ways - you can get sponsorships, scholarships and free-education
• X.Identify the institution and mode you will go
• XI.Choose the institutions from - job-prospects after talking with their current-students, alumni and professors
• XII.Register with the institutions and courses - which will add maximum value
• XIII.Now - very - important - identify which of your habits-attitude - may pull you down - these you need to work on to manage if you can't eliminate them completely
• XIV.Create a schedule that support your additional need of time - to give you enough time for studying
• 6.Stage 3 - now you need to implement - from point II onwards the steps outlined in 33 steps of Goal-setting process on how to convert your vague and ambiguous desires-wants-feels into SMART goals and action-steps