Have you ever think about the Goal of your life? What is the final stage are you heading for? Your life plan is concrete or vague? Your dreams can be realized only after you have your Goal achieved. Your goals could be attainable in the next hours if it is short-term one. Your goals could be noble if it long-term. Fly to the moon should not be your goal of life, and decide to take which to go home should also not be your goal of life. Goals should be the roadmap of your life. You can not have a good time management to reach your dream only if goals are made to be invaluable tool.

You have to make a decision to identify what your goals are. Long-term goals are the usual choice by most of people. Maybe it is to getting Master degree or does a 40 old marathon. Meanwhile short-term goals can be set by people the same. It may be finish a report or clean the living room. Which is the better goal? The better goal is the list shot-term and long-term at the same time.

SMART goals should be your standard to measure your goal. It is Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Rewarding, and Timely.

Specific: Specific Goal must be clear. And it is well broken into stages and steps. The goal will become more reality if it is a specific goal. For example if you a having a goal to run a marathon at 40 years old. To make your goal specific, you should break the goal down and write in on paper. The goals are made up of one step by one step, easy to follow. If you are 25 years old, your plan will be quite different between the one who is 39 years old.

Measurable: only if the goals are measurable, you can track on it. Constantly track on the goal you are longing for, will bring you greater confidential. How to measure your 40-years old marathon? If you are 30 yeas now, you should check you body saturation every year to make sure your body is on your side to support your marathon goal. Meanwhile, to record how long can you run every year is a measure on your 40 years old goals? If you can run 3/4 of the marathon at 35 and 4/5 of marathon at 38, you must be confidential that you can achieve the goals to run full marathon at 40 years old. On the other hand, if you can only run 1/10 of marathon at 39, it is really a very big challenge to you to run full marathon at your 40 years.

Attainable: the goals should be realities. If no-body in the history has ever achieved the goals of 40 years-old marathons, you should really consider about the attainable of your goal. Otherwise, you want to create a record of the world.

Rewarding: your goals should be attractive enough. Maybe it is of money rewarding maybe it is mental rewarding. To make your food good to eat and fresh, you will set clean refrigerator as your goal even if cleaning refrigerator is something tough. If you have long-term goals, you should not only focus on the process of reaching your goal but also the satisfaction once you have reached your goal. It must be something amazing greatly at the time of your break the finish line of New York Marathon at your 40 years-old.

Timely: no matter how amazing your goal is it will become mean less if you have not set a time limit on it. It is today to clean your refrigerator today or tomorrow or someday in the future? It is a good timely goal that you plan to run a marathon at 40 years old. Not young age, no old age, it is 40 years old. Timely goal can greatly help you to focus on your effort to make the timely goals become true.

You goals should become more and more attainable if your goals have been set by SMART guideline. By refine your goal by SMART several time, it will help to realize your goal greatly. Just do it now!