The Management Process of achieving a goal

Set an achievable SMART goal:

S =Specific goal; M =Measurable goal; A =Achievable goal; R =Realistic goal and T =time-based goal

• Make a plan to achieve your goal based on the resources you have:
  People, time, money and community (time-place and means)
• Carry out your plan for reaching your goal .
• Evaluate what happened in Steps I, 2 and 3:
  In order to learn from your experience. Use the lessons learnt to improve. Review to perfect the methods of achieving.

Seven steps

1. State who, where and what you what to become.

Define accurately who you want to be described as, what will occupy your life for a living, and where in the hierarchy of the position of the occupation you want to be. This will help you to begin to feel the end of the goal. The goal may be academic, financial, marriage, family, career or anything you set to achieve. See yourself in terms of what you will do to contribute towards achievement of what, who and where you want to be. Focus on what you want to be rather than what you are now or presently.

2. State the time when you want to become who, where and what?

This will set in your mind the power of speed at which the mind and the body will work together towards the achievement of who, what and where you want to be. The brain works better when it is given a time frame in which it has to accomplish its work. Time is a rate of movement in a space at 60 seconds per minute, or 60 minutes per hour, or 24 hours per day, or 7 days per week, or 30 days per month, or 52 weeks per year, or 12 months per year, etc. Therefore, what rate do you want to set yourself to 'move' in a space of time to achieve what you want? Choose the rate, and the brain (the mind and the body) will give you the speed of actions or activities that will lead to achievement of your goal.

3. List ten possible hindrances that can stop you to become who, where and what and when.

You will need to be aware of the obstacles and terrain of the way to the goal. The brain works better if it knows what to avoid in the course of its duty of programming the functions for the mind and the body.

4. List ten persons, places and means that can help you overcome the above hindrances.

Remember that most solutions are found in persons, places and by certain means which you have to know and use. That is, establish help-lines for yourself. Ask the question, 'Who is likely to help me to do what it takes to achieve the set goal? Start with those that you know quite well; such as your relatives, friends, neighbours, and all the friends of all these people. It is important that you will plan the logistics of how you will go about reaching them and asking (requesting) them to assist you with whatever you will want to do to achieve your goal.

5. Make a timetable of tasks with allocated time up to the end of the set goal.

Cluster activities that can be accomplished within a set period of time. This is called short term target planning. Accumulatively, these targets will add up to the achievement of the whole main goal. As you achieve these small short-term targets (mini-goals), you will be encouraged and ready to build up your confidence to push through up to the end to achieve your set goal.

6. Identify relevant skills that will make you succeed in achieving the goal.

Check if you need to train or be trained in these skills in order to perform effectively and efficiently to achieve the set goal. You will need to produce results that are for achieving the goal and nothing else. This will need your applied knowledge and proven success methods that will lead to expected achievement of your goal.

7. Lastly, list ten benefits of the set goal if achieved.

This will give you the will to do what it takes to achieve by all means and at whatever costs. So long as these benefits outweigh the cost and the risks of the in-put sacrifice, you will be prepared to do and go all the way to achieve the set goal. Remember that all living things can do anything that is rewarding and contributive to self-preservation. Anything rewardable ends up being done. Cover all outcomes that will lead to your self-gratification and self-esteem. The mind and the body respond to expected benefits willingly and sacrificially. After you have achieved this goal, do not stagnate in and with it. Convert it into a means to another goal. Let it be a stepping stone for a bigger goal achievement.

Be definite about what you want. Write your goals down and use as much detail as possible. Make them firm... for the moment. You will find as you achieve certain things that some goals will have to change, and that's fine. Just don't go around changing your mind every time the wind changes or you won't know which way is up. Set as many goals as you like, and include among them - what you'd like to be doing, where you'd like to go, what you want for your family, what kind of person you'd like to be, how much you'd like to be earning, your net worth, your health, personality, education and spiritual growth. Keep your daily goals confined to activities, which will lead to accomplishment of your long-term goals. Don't be afraid to set goals. Mistakes can be corrected but doing nothing cannot be corrected.