Satisfying Your Goals

Every business you can think of talks about goals. No business can run without having set goals and no business can record achievements without set goals. The goals give direction to the business about where to head and what to achieve. Therefore goals are the most important part of every business you can think of. Generally, businesses set SMART Goals, which is an acronyms for;

S = specific,

M= measurable,

A= achievable,

R= realistic

T= time-based.

What about our personal goals in career and work?
Are we supposed to follow the goals of the organization and try to achieve them or set some more for ourselves that help us in our personal growth?

Do we need to have satisfying goals for ourselves?
Let us discuss this further.

As a staff of an organization, all of us need to ensure we achieve the larger goals of the organization. That is true even for businesses we run by ourselves.

But can we reach the goals of a business/organization in a way that helps us achieve our own satisfying goals? Yes, We can.

Let us see how this can be done ? In the beginning, decide about what gives you satisfaction in your career. It can be — to learn something new every month, or to increase the efficiency of your work every month, or to work in a relaxed manner always, and so on. Every one of us will have his/her goal that satisfies him/her. So you will have to draw a list of goals that you desire for satisfaction and try to achieve them one after the other.

For example, my first satisfying goal can be that I learn something new every month this year. I may be handling any work, but I want to learn something new about that work every month. That will make me feel personally satisfied.

How do I do that? I can work on my given job, try and achieve my business goals and learn something new along with that. This new learning can also help me achieve business goals in time. Now say for example I am a new researcher and have limited knowledge about research (I have only done few market research projects which are quantitative), I will not only achieve the goals of the organization by just going to field for data collection on the small market research projects I am assigned to, but also try to learn other skills available in the research industry, which could be how to grow to become a supervisor, a coordinator, how to become a qualitative researcher, how to moderate etc. All these will prepare you in case of future opportunities which may showcase themselves. So it is very important you add value to yourself as you help organizations achieve their set goals.

Setting your own satisfying goals and achieving them will not only make you happy and more confident but also make you move along faster to the peak of your career. Many of us are centered only on organization goals(e.g. just do data collection and make your wages) but we can do better. Once we add our own satisfying goals to them we will be moving much faster in all the directions. Trying to achieve personal goals can also help remove lot of frustration, because you will already have the skills to manage those frustration. If management can discuss satisfying goals for every employee and guide him/her about achieving them, the organization will have more of satisfied employees. They will only care to ensure the satisfying goals set for their employees help them achieve business goals and not distract them from it. So start defining your satisfying goals from today.