Successful time management and goal planning allows one to stay motivated and manage their time effectively. This leads to the question why is time management goal planning important. Firstly time management and goal planning are important in field such as college and also the workplace for many reasons. According to Rebecca “the best student are not necessarily those who are smarter, but those who use their time effectively” (Ezekiel, 2012). To being with time management and goal planning allows one to accomplish more within a less period of time, for example when a student learn to control his or her time and set goals, that student will increase his or her ability to focus, which will allow the student to focus more on tasks that needs
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Doran who is a consultant and also a former director for Washington water Power Company published his paper “There is a smart way to write management goal and objective” (Doran, 1981). Within his paper he discussed how companies needed to set goals and objectives using the smart goal acronym in order to move forward. In his paper he define his meaning for smart which stood for specific, measurable, assignable, and realistic and time related (Haughey, 2014).
As time moved on the smart goal model has been defined in many ways, the most common meaning that is been used is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. For specific one needs to use the five W’s, who which indicate who is involved, what which indicate what one want to accomplish, when which indicate what period of time one want to accomplish the goal, where a specific location and why a specific reason for accomplishing the goal, using the five W’s would make the goal much clearer and precise. For measurable one needs to measure his or her progress in order to stay on track also for measurable one need to set a finish line in order to complete his or her goal. For attainable one need to set an achievable goal, setting an achievable goal will allow one to stay on track and not lose focus. Similarly to attainable, for realistic one need to set a goal that is achievable, a goal that one is capable of accomplishing. For time bound one need to set a target date and a time frame so that it will allow the goal to be more structured, not setting a time frame will allow one to lose the motivation for a goal. (Curriculum Wadhwani,
Doran who is a consultant and also a former director for Washington water Power Company published his paper “There is a smart way to write management goal and objective” (Doran, 1981). Within his paper he discussed how companies needed to set goals and objectives using the smart goal acronym in order to move forward. In his paper he define his meaning for smart which stood for specific, measurable, assignable, and realistic and time related (Haughey, 2014).
As time moved on the smart goal model has been defined in many ways, the most common meaning that is been used is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. For specific one needs to use the five W’s, who which indicate who is involved, what which indicate what one want to accomplish, when which indicate what period of time one want to accomplish the goal, where a specific location and why a specific reason for accomplishing the goal, using the five W’s would make the goal much clearer and precise. For measurable one needs to measure his or her progress in order to stay on track also for measurable one need to set a finish line in order to complete his or her goal. For attainable one need to set an achievable goal, setting an achievable goal will allow one to stay on track and not lose focus. Similarly to attainable, for realistic one need to set a goal that is achievable, a goal that one is capable of accomplishing. For time bound one need to set a target date and a time frame so that it will allow the goal to be more structured, not setting a time frame will allow one to lose the motivation for a goal. (Curriculum Wadhwani,