Finding Your Purpose

Why are you writing?

If you’re reading this post, most likely you enjoy writing of some form.

What is it that you like about writing? What pulled you towards writing? What are you hoping to get out of writing? Is it a stress reliever for you, or is it for your work?

If you can figure out your writer’s purpose, why it is that you’ve chosen to write, you can begin to improve your overall writing.

If you’re writing without a purpose or you don’t know your purpose, odds are the people reading your work will be disinterested because they won’t even see the point in reading your work.

A good way to find your purpose in writing, is to set goals.

Setting goals will allow you to keep that bigger idea in mind that you know you want to achieve.

It can be extremely daunting during the goal setting process, I understand.

You don’t know if you’re setting goals that are too high, or maybe you’re setting multiple easy goals and you aren’t progressing, or challenging yourself in any way.

Well, I’m here to give you a method in goal setting that will hopefully help shine some light on your goal drafting process in being a writer.

I can’t take credit for this method, I learned this in middle school, and I’ve used this goal-setting technique all throughout my academic career, and it’s treated me pretty well. So hopefully, you will find that this works for you as well.

We are going set SMART goals. And there are 5 steps to setting a great SMART goal.

• Your goal needs to be SPECIFIC

The more specific you are with your goals, the more you will be able to understand what the outlook of this goals looks like. You should be able to visualize where you want to be with your writing.

• Your goal needs to be MEASURABLE

It important that you are able to measure your goal’s progression. Goals don’t get achieved by themselves overnight. You should have an accurate way to track the progression towards your goal.

• Your goal needs to be ATTAINABLE & REALISTIC

You need to be realistic with yourself. Don’t set anything too far out of reach, or you will continue to struggle and struggle with meeting your goal. However, failure is completely okay. It’s absolutely okay to fail, that’s how we learn. But when you’re goal setting, especially with the smaller ones to help improve your writing, you need to buckle down and think realistically about the things that you can accomplish.

• Your goal needs to be TIMELY

If you would like more information about setting SMART goals for yourself, check it out here!

Set a time frame for yourself. Giving yourself a hard deadline will force you to stick to it. If you don’t make the deadline, readjust your timeframe and keep going. Don’t quit.

 This process can be really frustrating, but it’s important to spend a lot of time planning out your goals so that you can be successful.

Happy Goal-Setting and Even Happier Writing!