It can also be defined
as “a desired result an animal or a person or a system envisions, plans and
commits to achieve- a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort
of assumed development” (http://en.m.wikipidia.org/wiki/goal).
A goal in my view after
comparing the above terms and many more references revealed that a goal must
have the following and many other features. A goal must be;
1.
Directed towards a dream: A goal cannot exist independent of a vision or a
purpose or a dream. A dream is just a fantasy or a desired end. Goals are steps
taken to reach that fantasized end.
2.
Designed with a deadline: Every goal must have a time to “die”; thus a time
to be accomplished. This deadline is the main reason why “Time bound” is found
in the SMART tool used for
constructing goal.
3.
Divided into two main types; short term and long
term goals: Short term goals are
those set to be completed with a short time, for instance within less than one
year. Long term goals are those set to be completed within a long time
interval, for instance more the three years.
The following words
have been researched and accepted to represent the ideologies behind the term
‘goal setting’; “objectives, aims, intensions, deadline, purpose, strategies,
vision, planning, preparation and dreams”.
Without a goal, a
person will either remain a dreamer till he dies or he will attempt to fulfill
a purpose in an unplanned way which may equally yield what happens to the
former.
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