SMART Goals: Saving $ 7000 For A New Car

Setting goals for yourself is an important aspect to help achieve success in life. Setting goals not only helps guide you to be successful, but also helps a person believe in themselves

Goals are a part of everyday life. From gaining the strength to get out of bed in the morning to winning that blue medal around your neck, everybody has made a goal once in their life. Sometimes it can be as easy as saying you’re not going to eat that last cupcake on the platter in front of you or as hard as saying “Hello” to that special someone in your life that you find adorable, either way you have made a goal. It’s also important to remember there is short term goals and long term goals. Short term goals are easier to achieve and can be very helpful in leading up to your long term goals. We can even classify our goals into personal goals, academic goals, and professional goals, as well as others.

Goals are something that each individual should have, however, they can be short term or long term. My short term goal over the next year; I would like to

Interdepartmental communication and medical errors have both been proven as causes of harm to patients in health care settings. When there are gaps in communications between nurses changing shifts or patient transitions from one department to another, medical errors can occur and cause harm to patients. Even though there has been improvement in recognition of these problems and actions taken to reduce communication gaps and medical errors, there still needs to be more work, especially in individual facilities.

During the implementation of my health plan I was able only partially meet SMART goals and objectives. My goal was to reduce exposure to harmful noises (higher than 85 dB) to less than 8 hours a day. In order to meet that goal I was using an app on my phone to measure noise level I was exposed to. In the situations where it was possible I was either reducing volume or using protective devices (earplugs and noise cancellation headphones) to reduce harmful effect of noise. I was able to meet my goal only in well controlled environments where I was able to control intensity of noise. For example - when I was driving car alone I could reduce music volume in the car. However in almost all other activities, like during lectures, during walks outside and in movie theaters, I could not control intensity of noises and could not avoid those activities. So in reality it was very difficult to fully implement my health plan.

my servant leadership practice. A SMART goal is: (a) specific, (b) measurable, (c) achievable or attainable, (d) realistic or relevant, and (e) time-bound or time-based (Daft, 2014).

Goals must be stated in measurable terms, i.e., how can you tell you have accomplished that goal? Identify dates for accomplishing each goal.

A goal setting is best practice framework for setting goals. A SMART goal should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound.

While goals are considered as just hopes that somebody may have, they serve a greater purpose then one may think. A great tactic used very often is the S.M.A.R.T goal setting route. The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for Specific, Measurable, Realistic, and Timeframe (haupert). The most important piece of this is the “S”, being specific is an essential part of hitting a fitness lifestyle goal. If the goal is too broad of a goal, then it will be more difficult to plan out the steps that will be required to achieve the goal. A good example of this would be cooking instructions. Before beginning to create the final product, the producer has to gather ingredients and follow directions that are specifically laid out to create the meal or the chance of ending with a different outcome then you had hoped for is very likely

Great goals are well-defined and focused. “Obtain two new billion dollar corporate clients in the Boston property insurance market” is more meaningful to mobilize your team than “Get more business.” Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy eloquently states,"Focus creates a powerful force: goal power. The moment you focus on a goal, your goal becomes a magnet, pulling you and your resources toward it. The more focused your energies, the more power you

Out of the three goals, (Personal, educational, and professional) I chose two of the goals that I am focusing on and that is my personal and educational goals. For my personal goals, I want to create a big picture of what I plan to do in life. Then I want to break them down in order to reach my goals, then once I have them together, then I would start working on them to achieve them. For example(Specific and Measurable goals), I plan on finding a job that has great benefits and the best rate of pay, and one that does not require working on weekends(Monday-Friday only), and not working overtime.

This same process can be applied to my personal goal of finally obtaining a college degree. To me, this is a very important goal. Accomplishing this goal will allow me to prove to myself that I can earn a degree and that I can even work my way up to a doctorate, like I hope to do someday. By applying the SMART process to this goal, I have specified it to earning my associates degree. I will know that this goal is accomplished by finishing all the requirements of earning an associate's degree, in my chosen field. This goal is achievable because I know I have to intelligence and the desire to accomplish it. It is also realistic because it is a 2 year degree and I am at a point where I can fully dedicate myself to the goal, for this amount of time. I have given myself the traditional 2 years to finish earning this degree. This is another goal that I actually plan on using the SMARTER process, so I can continue to earn higher degrees, up until I earn my PhD.

A SMART goal is simply a goal that is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, and has Target dates. One of GM’s SMART goals was its strategic plan to reduce the total number of auto platforms from 30 in the year 2010, to 24 in 2014, and to 14 by the year 2018. This goal is SMART because it is very specific; reducing the number of auto platforms from 30 to 14 within 8 years. It is measurable in the sense that GM set specific points for these goals to be achieved. By setting a 4-year interval (2010-2014, 2014-2018) within this goal, GM seeks to measure the level of success of this goal. By measuring its level of success, its attainability can also be determined. GM’s primary objective behind this objective is to make a lot of savings on it huge engineering budget by building vehicles all over the world that are made from the same basic parts and assembled in plants that use the same type of tooling. This objective therefore makes the goal result-oriented since it gears the company towards achieving its vision. GM also sets target dates for which these goals would be implemented. Specific years for the implementation of these goals are indicated.

Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come.

As it was described somewhere in this unit, SMART goals are good tools to be used in the realization or achieving our plans SMART stands for: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-bounded. A smart goal will evidently decrease negative emotions such as irritation, upset or disappointment but instead will