My pre-teenage objective was to become a bilionare. I loved the ideea of having a lot of money probabily from TV. I din't know how to make them or even how to spend them. Now I know that wasn't an objective, it was a dream.
The only way to make a dream become an objective is to apply the SMART techique. SMART is a mnemonic standing for Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time.
- Specific
- Objectives should specify what they want to achieve. Usually they answer the: who, what, how, when questions.
- Measurable
- You should be able to measure whether you are meeting the objectives or not. Objectives must answer the how many, how much questions.
- Achievable
- The goal must be realistic and attainable.
- Relevant
- The objective must deal with the problem you are set to solve.
- Time
- The timeframe of the objective.
The best SMART objective was the plan to get on the moon:
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him back safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy
Everytime you want get something done, create SMART objective.