Why is personal goal setting such an important ingredient in personal time management? From the time management perspective, your life is a sequence of big and small choices and decisions. It is those choices that you really manage, not the flow of time.
Personal goal setting is the wisdom that comes out of a lot of practical experience to help you direct your conscious and subconscious decisions towards success, building up your motivation to achieve your personal goals.
An effective expression of the important goal setting guidelines is that you should set SMART goals. What the SMART goal setting guidelines actually mean is that your goals should be:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Rewarding
- Timely
These goal setting guidelines are the necessary criteria for your subconscious mind to accept your goals and start working for you. Otherwise your subconscious mind will work hard to keep you in the comfort zone of your present conditions and old habits, which will interfere with your time management and goal achievement.
Remember….”The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
