SMART Goal Setting

Helps clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, better time management.helps clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, and better time management.

SMART goal setting is a way to clarify ideas, focus your efforts, use your time more productively, thus increasing chances of achieving what you set out to achieve.

SMART is an acronym for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Setting goals results in action backed up by data.

Setting SMART goals helps clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, better time management. Increase productivity and increase your chances of achieving what you want to.

Great to use in project management as well as personal development.

Associated with Peter Drucker's management by objectives concept

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SMART Goal Setting Checklist

Specific

Clear specific goal

Think the five "Ws"

What you want to achieve?
Why is this goal so important?
Who is needs to be involved?
Where is this best located?
Which resources are involved?

Measurable

Analytics measurable goals with one or more metrics help you to stay focused.

Track your progress and stay motivated.

How will I know when achieved your goal?

Achievable

Is it realistic and achievable within your resources?

How can this goal be accomplished? How realistic is the goal?

Realistic

With current resources like time and money, is it possible to accomplish the goals?

Worthwhile
Timing
Fit efforts/needs?
Right person
Economic environment

Timely

Time-sensitive.

Time frame set a deadline to focus on and give you something to work toward.

Other Goal Setting Methodolgies

Edwin Locke is the father of goal setting when he created the theory of goal setting. The other types of goal setting you can consider is CLEAR goals and OKRs.

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