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How SMART Goals Turned My Dreams into My Daily To-Do List 🎯

Elimunet
3 min readNov 12, 2023

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Hello, fellow dreamers and doers! 🌟 Have you ever felt like you’re chasing a mirage? Running tirelessly but not really getting anywhere? I’ve been there. My life was a cycle of ambitious resolutions that fizzled out faster than a sparkler on New Year’s Eve. 🎉 But then, I stumbled upon the concept of SMART goals, and it was like someone handed me a GPS for navigating my aspirations. Here’s how I turned my dreams into a practical daily to-do list.

A Midjourney illustration prompted byt the Author.

Step 1: Get Specific or Go Home 🏠

I used to say, “I want to be more fit.” Great, but what does ‘fit’ look like? Is it running a marathon or just not gasping for air after a flight of stairs? It wasn’t until I defined specifically what I wanted to achieve — like doing 30 push-ups in one go — that my goal started to take shape.

📚 Lesson Learned: Vague dreams are like clouds; pretty to look at but impossible to catch.

Step 2: Measure It, Because What Gets Measured Gets Managed 📏

After getting specific, I needed to know if I was progressing. So, I tracked everything. Push-ups, meals, water intake. It was tedious but enlightening. Like that time I realized I was having more cheat meals than there are weekends in a month!

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Elimunet
Elimunet

Written by Elimunet

Reading and writing about my own experiences in Finance, IT, Spiritual, Social & Physical Life

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