Is Your Goal Realistic and Aligned With Your Life Direction?
Your goal should be associated with your life’s direction and should not be incompatible with the general routine of your work and life. By and large, the third and fourth principles of goal setting are associated with avoiding vain dreaming. Focusing on reality and avoiding daydreaming. This does not mean that you should not have great and ambitious goals; rather, it means you should choose goals that you can achieve according to what is currently happening in your life and what really forms the reality of your life. For example, let’s assume you have an IT business. You suppose that you will have earned $1 million a year and by the next five years you will be able to establish a branch in another country, too. This is a goal that falls in line with your current life and, at the same time, in tandem with your current reality. This goal setting was the result of your interest in that country. When you consider it realistically, you may conclude that your business in that country will not be profitable (the fact is that the IT business is not profitable in your country) and you cannot be in that position in the next five years; therefore, your goal is unrealistic.
All your goals must be in the same direction; you will find more about it after answering the following questions;
Is timing to achieve the goal appropriate?
Is the goal compatible with your life direction?
Do you and your company have the required facilities to achieve the goal?
Do the rules and regulations in the geographical area where your company is located allow you to carry out your desired business activity?
The answer “yes” to these questions will make you go through the fourth step, which is the realisability of the goal.