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SMART Goals Worksheet

Instructions: Identify a personal goal, an academic goal, and a professional goal.

1. On the Goal line, write each of your three goals. Your goals should reflect your purpose for advancing your education at GCU, your purpose in life, and however you define your "purpose."

2. Next, verify that each of your goals is a SMART goal. The goal characteristics, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely, are listed in the left column. Identify how each SMART characteristic is included in your goals. Complete all the columns in the worksheet.

3. Identify two main discoveries you made about how you spend your time – based on the 3-day sample from the Topic 2 Time-Monitoring Worksheet. Recopy them on this worksheet. Also, note what you spent more and/or less time doing than you thought you would. Write these also. Here is an example:

Actions

Goal

Action Plan

Change my time management plan: How can it support achieving my goals?

Personal

Take 2 hours a day to do what I want!

Academic

Study at least 3 hours per day during the week.

Professional

Read in professional publications 2-3 hours a week.

Personal Goal

Academic Goal

Professional Goal

Goal

S pecific

M easurable

A ttainable

R ealistic

T imely

Main Discoveries

More/Less Time Than Thought

Personal Accountability Plan

Instructions: Making a time management plan that helps achieve your goals is relatively easy. Sticking to the plan is the difficult part. That is why the Personal Accountability Plan is so important.

1. To help you be personally accountable for your goals, you will apply four actions, based on your Time Monitoring and Goal Setting assignment.

2. Look at the first action, "Change my time management plan." To complete the plan, you must identify an "Action Plan," that is, a plan for implementing the action – for each of your three goals. Here is an example:

Actions

Goal

Action Plan

Change my time management plan: How can it support achieving my goals?

Personal

Take 2 hours a day to do what I want!

Academic

Study at least 3 hours per day during the week.

Professional

Read in professional publications 2-3 hours a week.

Actions

Goal

Action Plan

Change my time management plan: How can it support achieving my goals.

Personal

Academic

Professional

Monitor my progress: How well am I working toward achieving my goals?

Personal

Academic

Professional

Feedback process: How can I tell when my time management plan is off-target and needs correction?

Personal

Academic

Professional

Create a strategy: how can I or reward myself for following my time management plan and moving toward my goals?

Personal

Academic

Professional

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