PACT Goals- Your Smarter Version for SMART Goals

How do you live a contented life? The answer most people seek is setting and achieving goals.

The word ‘Goal’ carries the burden for a living being right from the day responsibilities kick in. From what one can remember, unknowingly or knowingly we all chase them from a timid age.?

To ensure an efficient environment of a goal-fulfillment system, certain variables have been guiding us in tracking and monitoring our stance on where we stand with our objectives. Traditional methods like SMART goals have been around for a while.

The term SMART when expanded becomes Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely.

Specific enough to let you spell them out. Measurable in a way that keeps a check on the progress. Achievable so that you know if your head is not in the clouds. Relevant with your priorities for the hour and Timely to gift yourselves deadlines to analyze.

But what makes the SMART goals not so smart?

SMART goals can tick your progress, but not the purpose. Why do you wish to learn a new language? Why are you switching to an organic appetite? The empty purpose makes you want to think twice before setting off to achieve a goal. This lands you into a newer dilemma of what goals are priorities and which ones should be left in the trunk.

SMART goals are rather suitable for short-term commitments. Pairing this method with short-lived objectives helps juggle teeny-tiny goals. but when ambitions knock on your door in the long run, it’s time to get smarter than SMART.

Just rather stick to PACT goals- not an ally, but an alternative.

PACT goal focuses more on the result while skimming it down into feasible and manageable short components. It breaks down into Purposeful, Actionable, Continuous and Trackable.

Purposeful- the biggest food for your thought regarding ‘Why this goal?’ When the certainty of your goals aligns with your values and passion, you are already in the process of achieving them.?

Actionable- tracing out a plan is good, but executing it right away gets you familiar with the bumps on the road awaiting you. This strategy unties possible obstacles for the future and plan better to run smoothly.

Continuous- as you keep acting, keep on pushing the pedal. Don't take up ten goals at a time. Be flexible with one and constantly enhance the nature of your approach to the goal.

Trackable- the ability to track the progress and optimize it for good is the art of always being on the top of the game. It’s like your smartphone app that portrays the step count in your journey and how many more you need to achieve the daily goal.

Why choose PACT when you have the senior member SMART?

SMART requires plotting out the overall process. In contrast, PACT focuses more on outcome delivery and hence can be incorporated once your vision of purpose is crystal clear.

PACT is not time-consuming. The only time you need to reserve is when calculating your actual goals. Unlike great dependency on the system for SMART, PACT does not subject you to pressure for system malfunctions. The focus is the outcome. Read that line again.

SMART makes you believe either you can achieve the goal or you won’t. There’s no in-between. PACT, due to its categorial nature, recognizes different milestones and tracks them to identify what part of the goal needs work.

PACT is the feasible and less complex strategy in today’s rush era to think and set the right goals at the right time for you. Once you involve this technique, SMART will be history!

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