MEASURABLE

 

Hi! Welcome back to the SMART goals series. Today we are looking at the M for measurable. 

Staying with our goal of filling our WPRA permit in one rodeo season, let's talk about how it is measurable. 

The total we need to earn on the permit to be eligible for a full card is $1000. As we earn money at WPRA approved events, we will be able to measure where we are. If July comes around, and we've only won $500 then we know that from July to the end of September we need to ramp up the events we enter to earn that last $500 and fill the permit. 

We can easily measure our progress in this goal because we have a specific value set with it. Each part of the SMART goal depends on the other parts. 

Examples of Measurement in Other goals:

• Goal: run a sub 17 on a standard - measurement would be how much our time decreases with each run that we make on a standard pattern
• Goal: Qualify for NBHA finals - measurement would be the points we earn in all qualifying approved NBHA events
• Goal: put a really solid pattern on our horse - measured by the responses of our horse, times, turns, picking up leads, etc. (this one is more subjective since we all would have a different idea of what a solid pattern is) This one would also benefit from being broken down more like the goal being: correct leads and lead changes throughout the pattern. Then we could measure solidly on whether those leads and lead changes happen and happen at the spot we want them to. 

Overall, the more specific our goal is the easier it is to measure.