Okay, so what we are going to talk today is about goal setting, which is the essential part for meaningful success. And the goal setting technique we're going to use is map. And that is one of the best technique I have used. And the S stands for specific, M for meaningful or measureable. A for adaptive and are for realistic, and T for timeframe. So that's what the smart acronym stands for.
And I'll take you through all of them in detail. So S is for specific. So do not set away Go fuzzy or poorly defined goals like, oh, I'll be more loving to my kids. Instead of Be specific. I'll view my partner or my kids, of course. Long hug when I get home from work, in other words, specify what action you will take.
It has to be meaningful to make sure this goal is aligned with important values. It has to be measurable as well. So the goal should be measurable so that you have evidence that you have accomplished it. So it's been taken or not taken, there is no gray area that it's done or not done. It should be adaptive, or is this goal what you're setting? Is it going to improve the quality of your life in some way?
If there is no reason it's improving, then why bother? Right? It has to be realistic. So make sure the goal is realistic and you have all the resources which you need. Sir, let's say resources you may need include time, money, physical health, social Before you need knowledge, skills, if you don't have these resources and you need to earn it, so the goal might actually be to find those missing resources rather than going to achieve. So let's say if you want to climb Mount Everest, but if you have not have some resources like money, the physical house and all those things you have to set smaller goals, which is realistic, which you can achieve like I will go for climbing a small mountain into landscape has to be realistic, it has to be timeframes or there has to be specific ended to that goal, right.
So it is going to tell you sir, a goal like exercise minimum 20 minutes 33 days a week, Monday Wednesday and Friday to second of January 2017. So exercise minimum family minutes, three days a week, which is Monday, Wednesday and Friday till second of January 2017 is a smart and specific goal.