Direction.
WHAT A USEFUL GOAL IS
Specific Measurable, or at least verifiable Within your influence Attached to a date
WHAT A POOR ONE IS
Vague Dependent entirely on others With no way of knowing whether it was achieved
WHAT TO DEFINE
What would be different if you achieved it.
WHY
It clarifies what you actually want.
HOW MANY
Few. Several simultaneous goals produce progress on none.
WHAT TO BREAK THEM INTO
The next concrete action.
WHY
Goals are not actionable. Actions are.
WHAT TO SCHEDULE
Time for the work, not only the intention.
WHAT TO REVIEW
Progress, at defined intervals.
WHAT TO ASK AT REVIEW
Is this still what I want? Am I making progress? What is preventing it?
WHAT TO DO ABOUT A GOAL NO LONGER WANTED
Abandon it deliberately, rather than letting it lapse.
WHY
Lapsed goals accumulate as a sense of failure.
WHAT TO RECORD
What you achieved, since it is easily forgotten.
