WORKING ON GOALS

I see it's been several months again since my last post here. Hopefully, I will be able to break the pattern and get more things accomplished.

I joined a Long Distance Relationships community, which has been very helpful. I'm taking a challenge now, 5 Awesome Things I Want to Accomplish in 2014. So, here's my list of goals to work on. I actually posted them in a blog I wrote on the LDR group. And I got a comment from one of the posters there, with some good ideas:

Reading that post about 5 Awesome Things to do in 2014, made me start thinking about my own list, and it's pretty unfocused. No wonder I so often feel like I'm either stuck in a rut, or spinning my wheels and going nowhere. I guess I could blame it on my ADD and not really getting the help I need for it. But I also know procrastination has a lot to do with it, too.

This is my list, as it stands, and I think it is too general to work with. Definitely needs some tweaking to do any good at all.

1. Organize my time better so I can accomplish the other 4 things!
2. Finish one of the books I've started writing, and get it published.
3. Get fit, and trim down my tummy
4. Break my Internet ADDiction (pun intended)
5. Get busy with my Art projects

I think actually, I need to make the first item the heading, and then add one more so I will have 5 projects to work on.

On second thought, organizing my time IS a very important goal, so I will leave the list as it is, and just tweak it.


Comment:

I don't think your goals are bad, but they're not "SMART". SMART is, in this case, an acronym.
S - specific. Target a specific area/thing.
M - measurable. Give yourself a time frame or a number of pages written or lost inches or finishing one art project.
A - attainable. Do you have the motivation do to the things you've set for yourself?
R - realistic. Once you've established the "measurable" and "specific" part, is that goal realistic? like, it's probably not realistic to say "I'm going to lose 50 lbs this month". It IS, however, realistic to say, "I'm going to lose 2 pounds this week."
T - time. Give yourself "due dates" so to speak. Pick a book you've started writing. Now make a deadline for finishing it - after you've established the "SMAR" part of the goal.

Remember: each goal should have all of the aspects I just mentioned. All of them should be "SMART".
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AussieAmericanGirl66 - Today 04:03 PM

Thanks for the tips, lyonsgirl. Just from reading them, I can see where I have fallen down, and what my main problems are. And my mind is already working on things I can actually do to accomplish the goals. I'm going to post this to my online journal and my online planner/bulletin board, along with my goals, and get busy. I think I will also post this to the Facebook page my SO and I have together (a SECRET group just for us), so he can support me in this. We do work on things together, and are there for each other as much as we can.