Setting Smart Goals
Setting Smart Goals: Get What You Want! by Colleen
Kettenhofen
"Set a specific goal and take action. Goals are nothing without action."
Colleen Kettenhofen
Everyone dreams of achieving success. Whether you want to increase
sales, grow your business, take a long-deserved vacation, or lose
weight. Greater success is possible if you practice the following steps
and take action on your goals. Because ultimately, goals are nothing
without action.
Let me say you'll have heard some of these techniques for achieving
goals before, but often we need to hear them again.
An easy acronym to remember is "smart" goals. Smart goals stand for
specific, measurable, attainable and action oriented, realistic and time
specific. I applied these strategies to becoming a motivational speaker.
These easy tips produce results if you practice them consistently.
1. Specific goals: Write down your specific smart goals. Then, write
down an affirmation for each of your goals on an index card. Start with
the words, "I am." "I am" keeps your affirmation personal, positive and
in the present tense. Next, add a feeling word such as, "happily," or
"easily." Next, add a verb or action word. Include a specific month and
year for when you'd like to have achieved that goal.
2. Measurable smart goals: For example, one of my affirmations for a
specific goal back in 1995 was, "I am easily conducting speaking
engagements all over the world, including in Hawaii, by March 1996."
Write down a specific date. As a matter of fact, be as specific and
measurable as possible including things like a job title promotion,
specific sales goal, or number of pounds you want to lose.
3. Attainable and action-oriented smart goals: On the back of the index
card I spent several minutes each morning writing down action steps for
how I would achieve this goal. I then visualized myself taking action
and attaining it. All Olympic athletes do this because they know it gets
results!
4. Realistic smart goals: It may sound unreasonable that one of my goals
was to do business in Hawaii. But, having "interviewed" other
motivational speakers who spoke at conferences in Hawaii, I knew this
was a realistic goal, and have since achieved it.
5. Realistic time frames on your smart goals: I gave myself nine months
to achieve the goal of becoming a motivational speaker. It was going to
take time to send out demo videos to speakers bureaus.
Look at your goals and affirmations daily. Write down specific action
steps. Keep them in your wallet. Visualize how it would feel to already
have achieved those goals. Don't wait another day. The future is now!
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