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SMART goals

SMART Goals If you are a preper you already set some goals. How would you like to get more done on prepping each day? Do you think that you don’t have time to set goals? Most of us go through life just going through the motions of the daily grind. You know the what I have to do each day just to get by.  The spouse, kids, work, school, house, all those things that have to get done each day, then at the end of the day you reflect on what you have done and ask yourself ‘Did I get anything done on my prepping today?’

SMART Goals are- Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Time-specific

This does not have to take hours upon hours to do. Start with something simple like. I will get 50 pounds of salt for my food storage bought and put up by February 1, 2014.

This is- Specific – salt Measurable – 50 pounds Attainable – 50 pounds of salt would be $37.50 approximately Realistic – Can you afford $37.50 in just over a month and do you-             Have time to put 50 pounds of salt up and –             Something to put it up in like clean plastic bottles? Time-Specific-Can you do all of this by February 1, 2014?

If you can answer these questions with yes then this would be a SMART Goal. It is this simple. Then you break down how much you would purchase each week or each 2 weeks when you get paid and as you purchase the item when exactly according to your schedule you would put it up in the clean plastic bottles. If you don’t already have the clean plastic bottle then you would need to decide when you would obtain these. Like for us, we drink pop from the 1 or 2 liter bottles, they are wonderful to put food up in because they are last a long time.  So when we are through drinking the pop then we wash them out well and allow them to air dry for at least a couple of days until they are completely dry then we put the dry food up in them.

So, say the first week you would write on your calendar which day you would go and purchase 12 pounds of salt and a few pop or juice plastic bottles and you would need a funnel. Then on your calendar in 4 days you write down to put up as much as you can on the 12 pounds of salt into the clean dry bottles. So you know that you have to drink the pops and have washed the bottles out and they are good and dry. Then the next week you would purchase another 12 pounds and put them up by the end of that week. Then the next 2 weeks you would purchase 13 pounds each week. So that by February 1st you would have 50 pounds of salt bought and put up in your storage. If you don’t get that much put up in the 4-5 weeks then you did not meet your goal, but you probably did more than you thought you would. Adjust your goal and try it again. One good way to do these goals is to reward yourself for doing this. It could be as simple as taking the day off and taking the kids to the park or if you have some extra money, buy yourself something for your prepping.

You can also use SMART Goals for just getting things done. Say if you already have everything to do some kind of a project, then use SMART Goals to write down on the calendar when to get each part of the project done until it is finished. Give yourself deadlines to work with, that will motivate you to get more done.

Goal setting is what the successful people use to get to where they are. If you just live in the moment then you tend to spin your wheels, but if you use goal setting you get more done in less time.