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What is the Purpose of a SMART goal? · Arise Women of God

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  Does the phrase smart goal feel like a cold corporate buzzword that has no place in your spiritual life?
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  Most people use this system to drive themselves harder.
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  But for a Christian woman, these metrics are actually the tools of a wise steward.
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  Today we're asking the important question, what is the purpose of a smart goal?
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  And by the end of this episode, you will understand how to reverse engineer the vision God has given you into daily winds.
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  Solving the pain of vague overwhelm by turning I should into I will.
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  We're moving from dreaming about a mansion to actually laying the bricks.
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  Stay tuned.
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  Ordinary women, extraordinary faith.
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  When God calls, we say yes.
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  The Arise Women of God Podcast.
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  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Arise Women of God Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Tamara K.
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  Anderson.
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  And joining me today is Amanda Powell of our Women warriors of Light Advisory board and expert goal setter.
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  And we're getting tactical with our testimony today.
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  First, we'll break down the smart acronym through the lens of faith.
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  Second, we'll discuss progress monitoring and how to know if you're on target within just three weeks.
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  And finally, we'll share.
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  Why measure the gain and not the gap is the only way to sustain momentum.
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  But first, let's kick it off with Amanda defining smart goals.
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  A goal has got to be smart, and that's an acronym telling you all of the pieces that you need in a goal, which is so important.
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  Specific, specific, specific meaning.
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  You're going to start your goal with I will what?
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  I will what are you filling in the blank?
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  Right.
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  So I will write a book.
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  Okay, you want to write a book.
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  Well, you're going to break that down.
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  So I will write a book by when, okay?
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  When and what type of book?
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  Like, start getting super specific.
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  It's got to be measurable.
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  The only way that it's going to be measurable is you're moving steps towards it, right?
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  So the way that I like to do this is let's say that I'm doing.
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  Let's say I'm doing a reading goal, okay?
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  And it's going to be for one of my kids, okay?
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  My child is going to read 100 words per minute with 90% accuracy.
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  That's my measurable part, that accuracy.
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  So you see what I'm doing?
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  That's the goal.
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  This is how I'm measuring it, okay?
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  With it, with the 90% accuracy with less than one prompt.
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  And then I'm going to add a date by.
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  And I add a date, okay?
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  So if this is a year ago, there's my date, okay?
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  So you can see the important parts.
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  And this works for anything.
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  I will what?
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  Get specific.
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  Okay.
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  It's got to be measurable 90 accuracy.
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  Okay.
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  So I'm gonna write a book and I'm going to write one hour a day.
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  That's your measurable part.
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  One hour a day.
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  Okay.
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  Or maybe you put word count.
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  I am going to put down 200 words on a page.
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  Okay.
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  That's your something measurable.
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  Okay.
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  And then make sure it's realistic.
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  Okay.
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  You can't say, I'm going to write a series like I've never written a book.
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  So an unrealistic goal for me would be, I'm going to write a novel series and I'm going to have three books written in a year.
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  Right.
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  I know nothing about writing, nothing about writing.
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  Like, even when I write something or I tell or I tell Siri something, right.
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  She usually always gets it wrong because I'm not the greatest.
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  Like it's going to take me a while if I wanted to write a series that's not realistic.
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  So make it realistic, something that you really can achieve or you're going to get really, really down on yourself.
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  Like, this is not going to be a fun process for you.
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  And then time bound, it has to have a time that it ends.
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  I love it.
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  Specific and realistic.
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  If we set a goal to write a trilogy in a year when we've never written a single page, we aren't being faithful, we are being unrealistic.
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  But once you have a realistic goal, you have to break it down into quarterly objectives.
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  To Amanda, she calls this reverse engineering.
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  Goals do not have to be written in stone.
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  Okay.
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  Know that you may start out with a goal and life may throw you a curveball and that goal may need to be adjusted.
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  That's the beautiful part of progress monitoring your goals.
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  So when I'm telling you objectives, that's what I'm talking about.
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  So here we have this big goal, okay.
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  I said my child was going to read, say 100 words a minute with 90 accuracy, okay.
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  And this is going to be in a year from today.
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  Okay.
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  So my first objective, I'm going to break that down into quarterly objectives.
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  So my first quarter, let's say the baseline is my, my kid is reading 20 words a minute and I want them to 100.
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  Okay?
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  I'm going to reverse engineer that and I'm going to work on, we're going to get you from 20 words.
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  And this first objective, I need you reading, I need that doubled.
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  I need you reading 40 words.
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  Okay?
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  We're going to read 40 words by the end of this quarter with Maybe it's not 90% accuracy, maybe it's a little lower now because I like high goals, I'm probably going to keep it 90% because I brought the
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  word count down right?
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  So I want those, those 40 words that we get.
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  I want those 90% correct.
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  Okay.
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  The beautiful part about the objectives is within three or four weeks, you know, if you're on target to make that objective and if I'm not, I can course correct.
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  That three week check in is a game changer.
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  It gives you permission to be flexible.
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  Doesn't that sound nice to have a little wiggle room?
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  Remember, your goals are not written in stone.
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  They are written in partnership with a God who knows when to speed up and when you need to hunker down.
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  This is where we have to choose to measure the gain and not the gap.
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  And I, I love that you're giving ourselves permission to have grace because things are going to come up.
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  In the middle of last year, in the middle of crazy goals, I got sick for like two weeks.
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  Like I was in bed flat on my back.
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  I had some flu bug come through.
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  And you better believe that it shut down my goals pretty fast.
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  Like, I wasn't able to exercise.
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  I was barely making it out of the bed, into the kitchen, grabbing some food and getting back in bed.
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  So sometimes goals fail because things out of our control happen.
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  And so just remember, give yourself a little bit of grace there.
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  Hey, this happened.
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  I couldn't control it.
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  Believe me, I did not want to be sick.
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  So just as you ease back into health, maybe you're going to have to start at a lower measuring point because I'm not going to go from that to walking my 45 minutes a day.
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  In fact, I remember my friends walking with me the first time I walked after that and what used to take me a 20 minute loop, it took me like 30 minutes.
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  I was walking slow and I was just huffing and puffing because I was recovering.
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  So allow for flexibility and say, you know what?
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  I used to have this goal.
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  It's going to have to change from what it was to where I am right this minute.
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  And that's okay.
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  Don't get down on yourself.
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  One of my favorite sayings with goals is measure the gain and not the gap.
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  The gap, yeah.
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  And so make sure that you are saying, guess what?
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  Last week I didn't walk at all because I was sick.
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  This week I'm gonna walk 10 minutes and see how I do with that.
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  That might be a stretch for me.
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  I don't know, but start with easing yourself back into it.
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  Was it what you did two months ago?
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  No.
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  It's okay.
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  It's okay.
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  So, giving ourselves grace so that we don't completely fail with our goals.
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  The purpose of a smart goal isn't to make you work harder.
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  It's to help you see how much God is doing in your life.
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  When you make it plain, you see the miracles.
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  If you're ready to reverse engineer your big vision, go download our guide to goal setting for Christian Women.
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  It'll help you figure out what God wants you to do, and then you can break it down into your smart goals, which you have just learned to do.
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  And if you want to join a community of women who are measuring the gain together, go check out our Women warriors of Light accountability group.
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  The links for both of these things are in the description.
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  So, my friends, take one purposeful step today and move towards your goal.
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  And until next time, may you arise.
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  Do it God's way, God strong.