Reverse Engineering: Test Your Goals Starting From the End
To evaluate goals, you can also apply the “reverse engineering” method, which starts from the end, and then compare them with the goal setting table preparing which was trained in the previous section. The reverse engineering is a good way to evaluate goals and achievement. This technique is very similar to the common practice of writing goals. However, at the end of writing, you will notice the differences and this will help you in tracking and achieving your goals. Through reverse engineering, you may come up with answers that are quite different from what was in the original version and realize that numerous points have been disregarded along the way. What is stated about reverse engineering highly assimilates what was discussed in the previous sections, because, somehow, reverse engineering methods have also been used in expressing them. However, it is suggested to know this topic to determine goals.
In the first step, write the final goal as clearly as possible and with all the details. In fact, write down the goals you want to achieve at a specific time, at the very beginning.
In the second step, determine the timing to achieve goals.
In the third step, specify your position along the way to reach goals. Your goal is to be an accountant in IBM Company on October 10, 2022. In the next section, which considers timing to this goal, you specify that you will begin taking an accounting course at some institution in February 2021, and then apply for that job. Then, you determine what you have to do to get that timing right. Make a list of these tasks. Accomplishing the tasks of this list requires some prerequisites. Specify these prerequisites. In the next step, examine the prerequisites to see if you can handle them. For instance, do you have the necessary conditions to register for that training course? You may not have enough budgets to pay for the course. Through the answers supplied to those questions, you will simply realize that the goal must be removed from the list. And by that realization, you can simply utilize reverse engineering to evaluate your goals.