Have you ever just felt that you keep working and working, but nothing gets finished? Well the trick to feeling “accomplished” is to create little goals for yourself. Now, when creating goals, you can set lofty ones like buying a new home, or smaller ones like completing one chapter in your next ebook. But whatever the goal is, it should be a SMART goal.

So, what’s a SMART goal?

• Specific: your goals should be clear and precise. They should focus on exactly what you want to achieve, not a general statement.
  
• Measurable: you should be able to see or monitor change as its occurring. You goals should have some milestones so that you can see progress.
  
• Attainable: your goal should be lofty enough to challenge you, but not to high that you can never reach them. They should be devised so that you can grow as a person to reach them.
  
• Realistic: you have to be able TO DO IT. Considering your time, resources and abilities, you have to be able to actually reach the goal. This is what will give you satisfaction – not frustration.
• Timely: put a time limit on it. If your goal has no set time frame, you could be chasing it forever – what is the satisfaction in never reaching it?
  

Here’s a tip: Create SMART goals for both your work life and your personal life. Read this article about creating SMART goals. It contains bad and good examples about creating goals that will help you in work and in life.