By : Jan Maloch
When setting a goal, it is very important to estimate how long it will take to achieve your target. Once you have an idea of a time frame, you will then be in a position to stipulate a specific date. By identifying a completion date, this will ensure a much greater chance of being successful. Put the date on your calendar, and imprint this date into your mind!
This seems simple enough. Unfortunately however, many people set totally unrealistic time frames, which will set them up to fail.
Some goals will take a number of hours each week to achieve. For instance, if you are studying for a particular qualification, you will need to be able to dedicate a certain number of hours each and every week. If an exam date has been set, then this is the time frame that you will need to work to. If the course requires 20 hours of study per week, you are unlikely to succeed if you dedicate only 5 hours.
Ensuring that you make best use of your weekly allowance of time is crucial. We all have the same amount of time in a week - 168 hours to be precise.
How do you spend your time, and how much time can you dedicate to achieving your goals?
I suggest the following to help to ensure that you make the best use of your available time.
1) Decide how much time you will need to devote each week to achieve your goal.
I suggest the following to help to ensure that you make the best use of your available time.
1) Decide how much time you will need to devote each week to achieve your goal.
2) Keep a diary over a period of a week and record all of your activities. Be as accurate as you can to discover how long you spend on each. Remember that eating, sleeping, washing and so on do take time, so always include these every day activities!
3) Be honest with yourself. If you spend 3 hours a day watching TV, write that down.
4) Now review what you do during the week, and how much time you spend on each. Just like budgeting money, where can you make time savings?
5) Identify times in the week that could be used in the pursuit of your goals. If you spend a high percentage of your week watching television, I bet that much of this could be used to achieve your dreams instead!
6) Once you have identified time periods to devote to goals, get hold of a weekly planner and color in the periods that you will schedule as your "goal achievement time".
7) Follow your schedule and you will find that it will soon become a part of your routine.
Not only will you start achieving some really worthwhile goals, but you will also gain a wonderful sense of achievement, which will spur you on to achieve more and more!
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