This is a question I asked myself and one that has no single clear answer. With some goals everything is quite simple. It is either achieved or not. An apartment is either bought or not. You either went on vacation or not. It is unlikely that your apartment or vacation is Schrödinger's cat, existing in two states at once. But what about goals whose result cannot be described with logical yes/no answers but with mathematical values or percentages?
First, let's note the fact that if for a goal you were able to define its start and end (the value at which the goal can be considered 100% complete), you are already doing very well, because often it is precisely this that causes many problems, since it is extremely hard to apply a percentage completion scale to many goals. You may have seen an example in the section "Example of my 2024," where throughout the year I entered the status (progress) of each goal into a table.
Ideally, for such goals the indicator of completion or achievement should be the 100% mark. That seems logical and clear. On one hand — it is. On the other — investing so heavily in the number 100% is not always worth it. Often a 95% mark is more than satisfactory, especially when we take on a lot and plan with a margin to do more. I also fully allow cases when even 85–95% is a satisfactory result. But I'm afraid anything below 85% I have the right to consider not very successful and I do not really want to accept a result below that. Of course, ideally you should always have 100%, but that will not always happen, so even with 90% of a goal completed I would rather classify such a goal as successfully completed than as a failure.
