Friday, July 12, 2013

Personal Goal Setting Software

By Aniek van Wordragen


In this busy world we are living in, sometimes we already fail to pay too much attention and devote more time to setting our goals in life. What usually happens in cases like these is that we are oftentimes disappointed with ourselves because of the failures we encounter due to our lack of direction. Thankfully, new technologies are making lives easier and that includes helping us out in setting our goals through goal setting software.
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There are several current offerings for personal goal setting software. Some are nothing more than day timers with a lot of functions. For instance, my preferred daytimer, Time & Chaos, has a lot of functions that will allow you to setup and track your goals. However, like Outlook and other similar software products, these are not true goal setting software tools.Personal goal setting software needs to have several functions to be truly useful in moving you forward.First, you need to have a way of setting and easily reviewing your goals, as well as a way to generate an action plan to move you toward achievement of the goals. In truth, the best software is really about goal achievement.Second, the software should enable you to list and track your to dos, so that in a sense it functions as a bit of a day timer. It should also allow you to track your time and jot down additional thoughts related to your progress on your goals and the discoveries and lessons you make along the way.

Reliable.The SMART goal setting software is also very reliable. You are guaranteed of accurate results since it ensures you make simple, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely goals for yourself. It guides you in forming the best set of goals that assure you of a successful future. It helps you right from the very beginning so that you will not make any mistakes and disappoint yourself.

Goal setting software is more than a day timer. It helps you set goals properly, it allows you formulate supporting habits, and it helps you track your progress on the goals you have set. In the end, such software should help you reach your goals, not just dream about reaching them.In today's high speed and high tech society, it appears that there is software being developed to do almost every task imaginable. We are constantly on the lookout for software which helps us carry out repetitive or time consuming tasks more efficiently.

Practical.Why do you have to put yourself into a lot of trouble thinking about how you will set the right goals when you can be free from all the mind blowing hassles brought by goal setting? By using the SMART software in setting your goals, you no longer have to torture yourself with listing down your goals, wondering if they are correct or not, and doing trial and error just to make sure you will be successful in your endeavors. With goal setting software, you save time, effort, and money.

All types of software if used correctly should make life easier for the user. After all the very purpose of creating the software in the first place is (hopefully) to help you achieve an objective quicker and more consistently than you would have otherwise done manually.Goal setting software offers goal setters a central location on which to record all goal setting tasks, whilst at the same time delivering an accurate feedback and monitoring process. For instance most goal setting software will help guide the user step by step through the goal setting process and will more than likely include a system which prohibits the user from skipping necessary exercises or activities.

They allow you to keep all your goal related activities, documentation and findings in one place, without the need for huge piles of hand written notes, lists and exercises. A good piece of goal setting software should act as your personal organiser, your to do list, and your personal journal.

In my opinion the key advantage to using goal software is the fact that you can keep everything in the one place, where it is organised and categorised correctly at all times.Most goal setting software is extremely intuitive to use and if you are familiar with using modern software packages such as Microsoft word and excel, you will have no problem quickly becoming proficient in using it.

For it to be effective it has to be reachable and be an improvement over what it was before. So if you plan to eat sugar all day Saturday then this is only a substitution for what you were consuming during the week and it is not a valid goal. Simply shifting the activity around is not setting a goal and achieving it. So in the case of reducing sugar consumption you would also need something to reach like to reduce your dress size by 1 size or to have a better body fat ratio. It has to be something that you can reach by taking the action.

This is as preposterous as a wannabe artist throwing away a particular brush as it didn't make him a better artist, or a wannabe chef complaining that his pots and pans hadn't helped him become a world class chef.Goal software can be a remarkable tool and a tremendously powerful one, however only if used in conjunction with self discipline and will power.You MUST however develop the habits, actions, behaviour and mindset of a successful person first. If you don't do this, you will find that no goal setting software on the planet will help you.So before you run to order your software, sit down and establish if you are taking action on the basics, if not then you should delay your purchase until you feel you have the relevant mindset and success habits




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