Goal directed planning provides a guideline for helping others. Goals can be achieved by following the SMART acronym:
o Smart goals. The eternal question is this: Will we live to achieve our personal goals, comfort and pleasure, or will we establish goals that direct us toward serving God and others? The eternal way, the smart way, enables us to establish goals designed to use our talents, gifts, skills and abilities to serve others and honor God.
o Measurable—Goals must be specific as “I will write from 6-7 AM Monday-Saturday.”
o Achievable—Goals must be sensible. Anyone can write an hour daily if they are motivated.
o Realistic—Establishing a goal to write 8 hours daily is impossible unless you are Stephen King who writes from 8 AM to 5 PM each day.
o Time oriented—An absence of a specific time to accomplish your goals makes measuring your progress impossible.
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