SMART Goals

Monitoring helps you determine exactly when a goal is on track. It provides you a feedback which incorporated allows you to make rectifications and therefore achieve your goals which you have laid out earlier. Feedback is important as it could tell you whether the path that you have chosen to achieve your goals is correct. It is a vindication of some sort. A reality check. It gives you an opportunity to correct your deviations and take you towards your goal.

What are goals ? As an individual / family, you have a vision or a personal objective/s that you would like to meet in your lifetime . Some / all of these objectives may need to be financed . Therefore having a goal makes sense. Goals have to be SMART . Create a plan to achieve your goal Execute the plan. Examine results of your execution. Incorporate feedback to your plan Repeat steps 3 to 5 In other words, this is your famous Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle that will help you achieve your goal.