- Get organized and stay on track
- Have a clear understanding on what you need to do
- Prioritize your time
- Reduce stress and procrastination
- Accomplish more goals in less time
You would agree it would make your life a lot better, right?
Whether it's personal improvements, professional, family, or anything else. You need to have goals.
If you think you can just set a basic goal in your head and get started, you're going to be disappointed and most likely fail.
Today we're going to show you why a goal setting software is so critical to your success.
Just imagine these being characteristics of your life...
What is a goal setting software?
You have goals and this is the best way to set and track progress.
Goal setting software is specifically meant for setting goals. That is the main purpose.
When you think about it, if you want to progress in life and grow, you need to set goals. Even if you don't realize what you're doing is goal setting.
If you think it's just a task manager, or you can get the same results with a task manager, that would be a mistake.
It's more than a task management app, I wouldn't even recommend a task manager for setting goals because that is not the purpose.
When they are individual goals or for teams, you need to set quality goals. A good goal setting software, like Last Plannr, will make this process much easier and put the focus on your goals like it should be.
Goal management vs task management software
You've used task managers before, everyone has and there are hundreds of options.
The problem is these really aren't good to set and track goals. Sure, if you want to create a grocery list or remind yourself of people to email or call, these will work.
If you want to create goals and really accomplish them, you need a goal management software, and that is what Last Plannr offers.
Our goal, is to help you better create and track your goals. By adjusting the way you set goals and tasks, you'll exponentially increase your success rate.
How do you track business, individual, and work goals?
The way Last Plannr is set up, it's easy to organize your goals into groups referred to as projects.
Each project can be designated to things such as your business, personal and professional life. By creating these "projects", you can keep your goals seperated and organized.
You can also be very specific with your projects and create as many as your need.
- Personal goal project
- Family
- School
- Career and work
- Business
- Volunteer and charity work
- Friends
As you can see, you can create any kind of project you want and it will keep all of your goals nice and organized.
How do you track multiple goals?
Within any project, you can set multiple goals. Once you create the project, you can create all the goals you need.
Goals can also be added as you go, you're not limited to your initial goals.
You can use this system as a rolling goal tracker. For example, your project may be your business or career, but there may not be an end date you have for this project. You continue to add new goals as you complete existing ones.
How do I manage my tasks then?
We then take it one step further and let you create tasks within each goals. Your goals don't complete themselves on their own, you have to take the small steps, in the form of tasks, to complete.
It's important to have these 2 elements in relation to each other. Goals without tasks or steps will be much harder to achieve and tasks that aren't related to a goal will end up being useless or time wasters.
We never said task managers was useless, we just said they aren't the best goal setting tools.
Is it just a to do list?
Not at all.
The main focus of goal setting software is individual goals, not tasks. To do lists focus on the tasks themselves.
The tasks should support the goals. When you set up the tasks within the goal, the have a strong purpose.
Their purpose is to help you achieve you goals. You're not just adding tasks to have something to do.
This is the key. This is what is going to make you successful with accomplishing your goals.
How can I track progress against my goals?
The best means to monitor and track progress are documenting them.
Ideally record your goals in an organized fashion with milestones or deadlines. With the Last Plannr software, you can set due dates for all of your goals and track the status for each one.
As soon as you add a project, goal, or task to Last Plannr, it is added to your calendar so you can get a visual of when things need to be done.
When goal or tasks are completed, they go into a seperate table so you can see them on their own but they don't clutter your current workspace.
Deeper Dive: What are the 3 types of goal setting?
As mentioned before, there are more to goals then just setting them in your head and getting to work. In fact, there are actually 3 categories of goals.
- Process goals
- Performance goals
- Outcome goals
Knowing the difference can help you set better goals. Since we have a more detailed article on the 3 types of goals, we will keep it brief here.
Process Goals
These are the goals that are the behavior goals and help us perform better. They are what ultimately help us achieve our desired outcome goals.
For example, if your goal is to lose 30lbs in 1 year, a process goal would be to stop eating sugar.
Performance Goals
These are the goals that set the standard for which we perform process goals. They help achieve the final result.
Continuing with our weight loss goal, you may set a performance goals of running for 15 minutes every day.
Outcome goals
These are the big, long term goals, your outcome goals. Like we mentioned before, your outcome goal may be to lose 30lbs in 1 year.
It's a clear and specific goal that can definitely be measured.
In short, those are the 3 types of goals. If you're interested in reading more, we have a more detailed article available here.
What are SMART goals?
If you have never heard of SMART goals, your life is about to change.
When you use this goal setting method, you create goals that are more specific and robust. You take your goal and make sure it has all of the criteria of a good goal.
In short, you make sure it's specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound.
It doesn't matter what kind of goal you're setting, they should all be SMART.
Last Plannr key features
If you couldn't tell already, the key features of Last Plannr are the goal setting and tracking aspects.
- Organize all of your goals using projects
- Create as many goals as you need
- Create tasks for each goals to easily accomplish
- View all of your projects, goals, and tasks on the calendar
- Schedule events
Last Plannr is meant to help you accomplish goals. The features are what give you this benefit.
Once you have all of your goals set up, it's easy to see what tasks are need to be completed to accomplish those goals.
Last Plannr is the best goal setting software that you'll ever use.
What about other goal tracking software?
Most of the software you're going to find out there are really meant for either tasks or scheduling projects.
They don't focus on the individual goals a person has. This is such a mistake because even if you want a strong team, you have to have strong individuals.
Imagine you're constructing a building which represents the team, if all of the beams, the indidivuals, are weak, then the overall building will be weak.
This is how other apps are built. They aren't focused on the individuals goals or growth. We give you that focus to make sure you can grow and reach all of your goals.
Start your free trial of Last Plannr
Last Plannr is an excellent tool to help you create and track goals. If you sign up today, you can enjoy a 7 day free trial.
If you're not happy with your goal setting habits or routine now, it's time to make a change.
If you think that you've tried all the software out there, you haven't tried this. We're different from the rest, we don't just focus on tasks or goals.
We combine goal setting with task management. Every task you do will get you closer to your big goals.
Once you get started, you'll be tell everyone this is exactly what you were looking for.
Don't wait any longer, sign up today and start your free trial of Last Plannr.
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