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Refining your goals using SPVEM

Refining your goals using SPVEM

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Refining your goals using SPVEM

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- I might be breaking the mold here, but I'm not a great admirer of the idea of SMART goals. As a refresher, the idea is to create a goal that is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. I think that's more applicable to work goals than life goals. And also, specific and measurable mean the same thing. And achievable and realistic also mean the same thing. So I would like to suggest an alternative to SMART, which is SPVEM. I know it sounds like something unsavory, but you'll see how great it is. The S of SPVEM stands for scary. Your goals should be ambitious to the point that they make you a little anxious. Can you actually achieve them? This is the feeling of your subconscious coming out of its comfort zone and starting to believe that it can do more than it previously thought. The P of SPVEM stands for positive. In order to work, goals have to be phrased in the positive. So something like giving up smoking or having less stress won't work, because your mind can't…

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