Planning your day or planning your working schedule and setting goals are absolutely crucial for effective Time Management, goals are what all your plans aim towards.
A little planning can go a long way - that’s the power of time management.
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Goals are absolutely crucial for effective Time Management, they are what all your plans aim towards. Without them you can end up feeling unmotivated, cast adrift with no control over your life. Goals help you measure how effectively your time is being spent and help keep you motivated as you measure your progress towards them.
To begin setting goals, think of the big picture. Look far into the future, 10, 20 years from now. Consider all the important areas of your life: your career, family, education, financial situation and so on. Spend some time brainstorming a list of goals.
Then, when you have that, try to trim the list down to a small number of really important goals. These are your lifetime goals, this is who or what you want to be, or achieve during your life.
The next step is to create a set of smaller goals which need to be accomplished in order to achieve your larger goals. Things you need to do over the next 5 years, the next year, and the next 6 months, for example.
And remember, any goals you set yourself should be SMART. This means they should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Simply setting a goal such as “Have a good job” isn’t SMART, whereas “Become a member of the senior management team by December next year” is.
This may all sound a bit daunting but bear with us, you need to know where you want to be in the long run before you can work out what you need to do in the short term to get there.