The Ultimate Smart Action Plan To Organize Your Life
Smart action plan to effectively organize your life with the things that you want to achieve in life (seriously, for anything you want).
Over the past few weeks, I’ve released a series of blog posts that can help you set your life goals, turn them into life and create a life you deserve. In other words, it’s going to teach you how to manifest your dreams by setting a smart action plan.
This is the final series and I invite you to check out my previous posts on this series below to get a full understanding of the steps you need to take to write, strategize, process, and act your goals:
PART 1: Effective Ways How To Set Up Goals
PART 2: Goals of Life Setting Process That You Should Know
And, PART 3: The Ultimate Smart Action Plan To Organize Your Life (you’re reading it now from this series).
Smart Action Plan That Goal Should Be S.M.A.R.T
Whatever you want to achieve – profit, retirement, productivity, or strict budget no matter how great your intentions, you’ll need a clear-cut process for how to get there. And an effective way to track your progress—which is why using the Design Your Year Goal-Setting Kit and guides can help.
I believe that a smart action plan is the basis of all achievements.
Those smart action plan that can be appraised and tracked. Let’s get even more specific. There is a SMART action plan around money management, individual productivity, number of sales made, projects completed, how to save, family vacation, etc.
Smart Action Plan Framework
To keep you pushing forward and to hold you accountable for your progress make goal-setting S.M.A.R.T.
The first fundamental framework of SMART ACTION PLAN is that goals should be specific.
In the earlier series in Part1: Effective Ways How To Set Up Goals I mentioned my example of LONG TERM GOAL: Retire comfortably at 60 without debts to travel the world and how to break a long-term goal into short-term goals.
Now, throughout this smart action plan series, I’ll use an example of “making a lot of sales” – to work smarter and not harder that has the correlation to my long-term goal to retire comfortably without debts to travel the world.
Smart Action Plan That Goal Should Be Specific.
When goals aren’t specific, they don’t offer direction and they don’t narrow our focus.
“Making a lot of sales” is a good goal but without defining it clearly it’s hard to narrow down your focus.
Here’s a good example of my personal SMART goal:
I will sign-up 5 high-value clients to fill at least 50% of my needed income (Specific; Measurable) by the end of August (Time-bound) so that I can fulfill our next family vacation in Disneyland (Attainable) and have flexibility in deciding to take or not on additional projects this year (Relevant).
Goals that are specific set clear expectations. What do you want to accomplish? What’s the purpose of the goal? Who’s involved?
Measurable.
The second fundamental framework of SMART ACTION PLAN is that goals should be measurable.
The goal must go together with the first element that’s about specificity so that you can track your progress. Back to the example. Sign-up 5 high-value clients to fill at least 50% of my income is measurable.
Since I know the ins and outs of my money, so 50% of my income I can count that!
But “making a lot of sales” isn’t measurable because we don’t know what “a lot” means and it’s not calculable.
Is 5 clients a lot? That depends on how much I charge for my product. If let says I charge $2,000 per client then that’s an additional $10,000. But if I charge $10,000 per client, then $50,000 is a lot for my 5 days Florida trip. And if I charge $100 for my product then I would be needing 100 people to buy it.
Attainable.
The third fundamental framework of SMART ACTION PLAN is that goals should be attainable.
Is your goal can be attained realistically? Can it be achieved within the time frame given? Can it be achieved based on your available resources?
Smart action planning is the most important skill on your part as you set up your goals. The goal shouldn’t be set so high that you will be disappointed and frustrated with having such an unrealistic target. You need to be realistic when setting your smart action plan to achieve it in the first place.
Back to the example, a family vacation in Disneyland is realistic that anyone can attain it. I could easily achieve a goal of a vacation in Disneyland if I can generate an extra $10,000 and even spend lesser than this vacation budget.
There’s always a sweet spot in determining whether a goal is achievable, and that comes down to you when you go through the goals of life setting process.
Relevant.
The fourth fundamental framework of SMART ACTION PLAN is that goals should be relevant.
That the goal aligns with what you want to happen? Is it relevant to your responsibility? Is it relevant to what you should be doing?
Back to my example, having flexibility in deciding to take or not on additional projects this year is something relevant to what I want to happen.
Because signing up 5 high-value clients to fill 50% of my needed income can already supplement the vacation I want for my family. People sometimes set goals that are completely misaligned with what they should be doing without interconnecting with their long-term goals.
Smart Action Plan That Goal Should BeTime-bound.
The fifth fundamental framework of SMART ACTION PLAN is that goals should be time-bound.
Your goals must have a start and finish date. You need to know by what date a goal needs to be accomplished. A deadline allows you to focus on what to prioritize which can help create a sense of urgency depending on how far out the deadline you set.
Back to my example, I will sign-up 5 high-value clients to fill at least 50% of my needed income (Specific; Measurable) by the end of August (Time-bound). Understand that it’s not enough for a goal to be specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant without a deadline and perhaps becomes out of sight.
So, make sure that you set some kind of milestones throughout the year. Like if you have a goal of fulfilling your next family vacation, then that roughly 5 x $2000 (high-value clients) or 100 x $100 (low-ticket products) to generate an extra $10,000.
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Final thoughts
The smart action plan will be useless if you don’t track your goals.
What were the results?
Tracking is about reviewing and reflecting on your goals. What’s gone well, what hasn’t. And what’s been helpful along the way.
Beyond having you clearly outline your smart action plan for achieving your goals, you need to get organized by designing your year now.
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But regardless of if you choose to download or now, I know that setting up goals can be a great way to bring your dreams into life and design your future. So I want to encourage you to go for it!
Just a recap of the goal-setting blog series:
Goals of Life Setting Process
PART 1: Effective Ways How To Set Up Goals
PART 2: Goals of Life Setting Process That You Should Know
….And PART 3: The Ultimate Smart Action Plan To Organize Your Life (you’re reading it now from this series)
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About Jeng Cua
After borrowing her lifestyle living paycheck to paycheck, this work from anywhere mom wouldn’t let anything stop her from chasing her dreams. Now, Jeng has achieved more than she ever imagined. Her mission is pretty simple – to help you love your life and family using her four distinct life systems.