To make a goal truly measurable!

I have discovered a major problem in my own and others goals. I understand that most goals are simple statements of intent, whether specific or not.

While conversing and studying in the gathering.I realized that I had been doing one thing deficiently. I didn't have a true time limit.  No matter how silly it seems, time limits give us more for achieving our goals than they take away.  For the lost time and pressure spent on convenience, one gains the focus on just the time between now and the goal end period, and the ability to renew or re-evaluate the goal for the next week.

Once, when I was a missionary, I used goals and a planner that had backcups and weekly time limits.  Ever since then I have neglected that detail I have found that I couldn't achieve my goals in the most satisfying ways.  So, when I was reminded of it in class I made it a point of focus  for me to fix that particular.

Having a time-limit is part of the S.M.A.R.T. style of setting goals, but it is the part I observe is frequently overlooked, even as I did.  To measure a goal so that one is assured of some success and is then able to drive the inner-motivation mechanisms of the mind, one must have periods of accountability that are clear starting and stopping points.  This is what time-limits are really about, even if they are constantly renewed by design.

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