Define your goals to design your success , Part — 1

Sanjay Nayak
3 min readJun 15, 2021

A goal is your vision, your dream and your future reality, something you want to achieve in a timely manner. This could be your personal, professional, material, spiritual, financial or family oriented goal.

By having a goal, you are setting an objective in your mind to envision, plan and commit to conquer. … A goal is roughly similar to a purpose or aim, the anticipated result which guides reaction, or an end, which is an object, either a physical object or an abstract object, that has intrinsic value.

Setting, designing ideal goals is vital to completing any task or project to derive fruitful end result. Without clear objectives, there will be no direction, no path, no trail and no intention to achieve it. Decisive goals help you focus your energy in creating a way, a path to begin your journey

Your goal should also define process steps of what, when, where, how and why. A real goal clearly dictates what objective to be achieved to accomplish it.

By answering following questions, you can define your specific goal accurately

This is your Goal based on above information.

After answering the above question, you can define your goal as -

(To live a healthy lifestyle, I want to lose 10 kilos, within 6 months, by going to gym, it would require Gym membership, cutting down on junk food, heaving good sleep and staying away from high carb)

For example, it should be possible to measure how much a trainee chef has improved in terms of skills either tangible /intangible on a particular dish or food presentation in a fixed time.

Many of us are aware of smart goals. It was designed to create some criterion based on well-defined objectives (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)

But before you use it, you need to understand how it affects your outcome and end result of process. How these objectives create foundation of your success and why they are so interconnected and interdependent.

Let's break down each one of them in small bits to get in-depth understanding and use these specifics to design goals, which in real term called be smart.

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Sanjay Nayak

A career chef dedicated to help people design their Success