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Use SMART Goals if You want to Achieve Your Goals
If you’ve done any research on goal setting, you’ll probably have come across the term SMART goals. If you want to have a good chance at achieving your goals, you should make sure that your goals are all SMART goals. Having SMART goals will help make sure that you’re on the right path, and will lead you towards accomplishing your goals.
What Are SMART Goals?
Setting a goal doesn’t always mean that you’ll achieve it unfortunately. There are usually a lot of challenges that can stand in your way, no matter what the goal. The goal setting process is a necessary step that involves the creation of SMART goals and the development of a clear plan to achieve these goals.
By constructing our goals carefully, we can see where we need to focus our resources and efforts, motivate ourselves regularly, and work diligently to achieve our aims.
To ensure the creation of clear and powerful goals that will move us forward consistently, our goals need to conform to SMART guidelines.
SMART is an acronym for:
S — Specific
M — Measurable
A — Achievable
R — Relevant
T — Timely
