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An article that looks at both goal setting and effective time management. Includes the fact that time management could be looked at as being the setting of very short term goals. The sections included in this article are:

- Preparation Is Key
- Goal Categorizing
- Medium And Short Term Goals
- Be Realistic
- Be Flexible
- Managing Your Time With A Time Management Plan
- Realistic Time Management
- Expect The Unexpected
- Summary Of Goal Setting And Time Management

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Setting And Achieving Goals Utilizing Effective Time Management
By Matt Jackson

Whatever your course in life, whether you"re a student, a freelancer, you run your own business or you work for an employer, setting and, more importantly, achieving goals is a key aspect to your continued success. Setting realistic but determined goals helps you to map out a direction and how you will get there but it also helps in many other ways. One of the most important reasons to set goals is to keep on top of time management. Effective time management ensures that you can realistically meet deadlines, progress through your chosen path and lead separate home and working lives.

Preparation Is Key

Before sitting down to compile your list of goals, you should think about the reasons you are setting them and split them down into different categories. As well as setting goals for your working or academic life, also set them for your personal life. Do you want to be living in the same house in 5, 10, 15 years? Do you intend to have a family? Do you want to quit your job in order to run your own business or work freelance? These are all important questions that coincide with one another and you should know the answers before you begin the task of goal setting.

Goal Categorizing

Do separate your goals into different categories. Personal, work and other achievements are equally important but they will be achieved through different means. Make sure you understand the correlation between each of the groups. It may be your goal to upgrade to a country mansion in ten years, in which case your work goals should fit around this. It would probably be unreasonable to expect to be able to upgrade your house in such incredible fashion without taking a sizable increase in salary somewhere along the way. Your bank balance is important to your goals. If you want to live the million-dollar lifestyle then you will need the appropriate bank balance and you will need to have made that money to put in your bank balance. All your goals are linked in some way.

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