All of us are heading towards 2025 whether you like it or not. A reminder to adapt, learn, relearn and evolve, it’s an inevitable process to ensure continuity. Unless you are willing to forgo the future and reminisce about the past, then please sit there and do nothing. Otherwise, get you moving!
I know some will be thinking of resolutions and things and dreams to get, yada yada yada … Setting resolutions without thinking it through is detrimental to wellness, it’s like going to war without a plan, without a process, without resources, without back-ups. Then at the end of 2025, you’ll be sitting there in that very same spot reminiscing about what went wrong. Isn’t that so demotivating?
Fret NOT! Here’s a hint … be SMART about it! It’s a SYMBIOSIS of Life and HR.
Whether in life or at work or owning a business, you need to set GOALS, they are the your North Stars! And not just any goals, SMART Goals! Setting goals that can give you a challenge will benefit you in the long run.
So what are SMART GOALS?? A brief reminder … they are:
Specific & Stretching: Set Stretching, Clear and Narrowed down goals, by asking what are you trying to achieve, can you do more, leverage your interests, skillsets, strengths and areas of improvement.
Measurable: must be able to let you measure, track progress, monitor trajectory, do use dashboards
Achievable: must be achievable with some efforts put into it, need to consider availability of skills and resources, asking how do you get there, may need to acquire skills & knowledge upgrade and extra resources
Relevant: must be relevant to what you are doing, asking what and who may be related to the goal, amalgamate the efforts, the goals
Timebound: Deadlines, pure and simple, by when should this be achieved, please set review cadence, set milestones and review periodically.
Goals must be ambitious, achievable, measurable and relevant to what you plan to achieve by a certain date. And it’s imperative to review the achievements periodically as you move along the journey, if things and actions need to be tweaked, do it. If you think the trajectory is skewed, pull it back or plans have changed or goals have changed, regroup and rehash the goals using SMART Goals.
Oh! One more thing, very IMPORTANT! >>>
Celebrate Milestones!!!!!! Big or small, celebrate!
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