Set Goals

Longer-term — deciding where you're actually headed, before you optimize how you get there.

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SMART Goals

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound. Individual by nature — less a framework than a filter you run your own goal through before committing time to it, and a vague intention ("get better at this") turns into something you can actually plan around and know when you've hit.

S
Specific
M
Measurable
A
Achievable
R
Relevant
T
Time-bound
Examples
  • "Save 15% of my paycheck each week for the next 8 months so I have a deposit for a new car."
  • "Follow a weekly training plan so I can complete a half marathon in 6 months."
  • "Study 4 hours per week on Fridays so I can pass my AWS Certification exam in 3 months."

For the org/team-scale version of goal-setting — Objectives & Key Results, cascaded down to the individual — see OKRs under Organization.

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Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever AI tool you use:

I want to create a SMART goal. Ask me what I'm actually trying to achieve, then help me turn it into a SMART goal — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.