Creating Measurable Goals

byownonlboss

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7 years ago

I recently learned something important about Creating Goals for your business, or daily life achievements.

Creating Goals For Your Own Life

Perhaps you would like to become rich. Have more money. Have a house, a car, a partner for life. Have kids (or not). Create your own business or have a joyful lifetime job. Travel a lot or live somewhere nice. Have family nearby or far away.

Everyone has different life goals. Any goal can be achieved, depending on how much effort and time you put into it.

Creating Goals For Your Own Business

Within your business it is a good idea to set out goals too. Creating your website. Starting your business. Getting the capital you need to invest on equipment you need. Getting customers. Make sales. Earn money. Become a wealthy company.

Goal making isn't too difficult. We all have our dreams.

Short Term vs Long Term

Surely, you got a lot of long term goals such as becoming rich, but the first steps should also be made into multiple goals. The first steps are your short term goals. Things you can achieve now, or tomorrow. For example:

• Creating your website is a goal.
• Putting your first page online.
• Creating a menu.
• Writing a post.
• Creating a social media account.
• Sharing your post with social media.
• Completing Course 1.
• etc

Making Measurable Goals

Currently I am following a course and it taught me something I did hesitate on all the time. I didn't ever make my goals measurable for myself. How would I measure to be rich? How would I measure to have more money? What defines a sale? What defines that I got customers?

My teacher said:

"So you want to have more money?! - I will give you 50 bucks. Now you have more money. Goal achieved?"

Of course that wasn't what I meant, but I realized that I had been making goals very globally all this time. And as an end result I wrote inconclusive resulting comments behind my goals.

So what will define how rich you want to become? How much more money is what you want to earn more?

What defines a customer. How many customers would you like to have?

Give Goals A Deadline

Goals should also have a deadline. By what time do you want to have your website created? How many posts do you want to publish this week? How many comments do you want to give to SiteComment this month? How many sales do you want to generate by the end of this year? How many visitors do you want to have on your site by the end of this month? How many by the end of next month?

Have Someone Hold You Accountable

Perhaps one of the most important parts of setting goals. If you have someone or a group of people that can keep you accountable for your set goals, than you have a goal within a goal. The goal of actually following through with your goals. Others can keep you in line for making your goal and ask you at the end of the period whether you made them.

It can be a friend, a family member or the entire following of your website. Here at Wealthy Affiliate is also an excellent place to post your monthly and yearly goals and results each beginning of a month. Try it out!

Conclusion

Setting goals is important. It will keep you working hard towards a better future all the time. It is important to have both short term goals and long term goals. When defining goals you should make it a realistic reachable goal with a definition of how you will measure it and a deadline to give it a meaning in time.

Keep yourself accountable by telling your goals to a friend or posting it online for others.