Setting Your Goals The Smart Way

It doesn’t matter if you’re a stay-at-home mom, retired or unemployed, if you’re a student or working like crazy.You need goals.

There’s a very big difference between a dream and a goal. A GOAL IS A DREAM WITH A DEADLINE.

I dream of winning the X-factor and I could have a good chance if I decided to take singing lessons, learn about the business, dedicate myself to it, and improve my craft. Add a load of luck to that as well. But winning the X-Factor is a dream, it’s stuck in time and it’ll never become true (Sorry Simon Cowell, thou shall not witness my awesomeness).

Becoming a writer who earns a good income from her own books though, well that is a goal.

I highly recommend that you set goals for yourself and the best part is, they don’t need to be solely about writing. They can be about a variety of things, but once set, be dead serious about fulfilling them. Why? Because your goals are a commitment to the most important person in your micro and macro universe: You.

But how to organize your goals?

Start by sorting them into two main categories:

Long-time Goals

Short-time Goals

These can be divided into sub categories. Your goals can be set regarding your personal life, your career, family, pretty much anything. Just make sure to sync your long-term goals with your short-time ones. Or at least most of them.

A few examples:

Short Time	Long Time
Weekly:
Write N words per week —>	Self-publish or get an agent by 2014
Draft a blog post —>	Go work for Copyblogger
Critique your CP’s chapters —>	Finish edits for your current project
Study to move forward in your current career —>	Get a promotion
Practice ballroom dancing —>	Win a dancing contest
Monthly
Read two books, give them amazon reviews —>	Become a big time Amazon reviewer
Learn 50 new Russian words —>	Speak Russian by 2018
Spend 10 hours at the gym —>	Lose n kilos by end 2013
The possibilities are endless	The possibilities are endless

Pretty simple ain’t it?

So, what are your goals for 2013?

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3 thoughts on “Setting Your Goals The Smart Way”

This is helpful and timely for me now. I realized that I have to write more than a few words a day if I’m going to publish a book (anytime soon). Looking at things from this point of view is motivating. Thanks!