How can sharing your SMART goals help you?

Sharing our SMART goals with key individuals around us (our spouse, mentor, parents, siblings, close colleagues, and even our children) works wonders. First, it nurtures the pre-existing relationship since being vulnerable and thus creating a safe space brings the individuals closer. Second, there is encouragement and the required amount of follow-up to ensure we stay on track. If we falter, doubt ourselves or are undecided – our support system brings us back on track. I started a real estate services company when I was barely out of my teens, and am grateful to have found strong support in my parents, my sibling, my friends and close colleagues. Although rewarding, business was not easy, but having them around made all the difference.

One of the most difficult parts of accomplishing your goals is staying consistent. Staying focused on goals when you are accountable helps with the consistency. People are okay to give excuses when it comes to only them but often times do not wish to let others down.

Sharing SMART goals creates accountability and support. Regular check-ins and feedback boost motivation. Choose a trusted ally for encouragement and avoid detractors.

Absolutely! Sharing your SMART goals is a game-changer for success. It builds accountability with a support system, offers valuable perspective from others, and boosts your confidence through encouragement. Want to take it a step further? Join a mastermind group of like-minded professionals to amplify these benefits!

Sharing your SMART goals can help you in several ways. First, it increases accountability, as others are aware of your objectives and can check in on your progress. Second, it provides support and encouragement from friends, family, or colleagues who can offer advice, motivation, and resources. Third, it allows for feedback, helping you refine and improve your goals based on others' insights. Fourth, it fosters a sense of commitment, as publicly declaring your goals can strengthen your resolve to achieve them. Lastly, sharing your goals can inspire others and create a collaborative environment where everyone works towards their objectives together.

Sharing SMART goals with diverse individuals yields fresh insights. Learn from their advice and criticism, avoiding harsh judgment. Embrace open-minded allies for maximum growth.

Sharing our SMART goals with others helps us gain a holistic perspective. We receive 100 inputs and then have an opportunity to analyse them all and pick what we feel works best for us. Talking to someone with different skill sets and from another industry can help us identify gaps that we were blinded to. This has been quite helpful in the work we do at Brand Content Strategy since we often bring in the third-party perspective to founders and yet work closely with them on internal and external growth blockers. Since we are not too close to the problem, our feedback is refreshing for the client teams, and we solve problems faster. It's fun to work with teams that are open to critical reviews and revamping old work structures.

Aiming for a similar goal or even working towards a goal along with someone has a lot of benefits. You can learn from each other, keep the momentum going and also avoid repetitive mistakes. Sharing what worked and what didn't can help make the process faster and more impactful.

"Remember who you are," the great Mufasa said – one of the most underrated reminders to self. As we double down on our goals, the subconscious tendency to compare the worst of us with the best of others takes a mental and an emotional toll. We are also unduly hard on ourselves, often wallowing in anxiety over an imagined future. Instead, we need to focus on the tasks at hand today and take a small step towards our SMART goals. This is when it is important to him we share what we are going through – choose people who offer a leg-up, who don't judge, happily listen, and don't make everything about themselves. Importantly, depend on yourself, not on others, for your state of mind. It will give you control and boost your self-confidence.

It's always important to celebrate wins - however small or big they are. When it comes to chasing goals, sometimes it can get lonely and demotivating. Having an accountability partner is like having your own cheer leader and your own coach. And the best part is that even you get to play those roles.

Networking is one of the most powerful ways to achieve your goals. And people do not talk about that too often. Sharing your SMART goals with people can help you tap into your very own community if go-getters. There's nothing more valuable than real stories of real people.

The objective of networking is to 'give' since what we give out always comes back to us in some way or the other. It could be support, it could be material help or simply a kind word. When we interact with individuals, sharing our SMART goals, listening to theirs, and co-creating notes on how to achieve our goals, it helps build a relationship of mutual learning and mutual respect. We are not seeking, we are not hunting, but we are contributing with our time and perspective – which is a highly valuable gift to the other person. In my experience as an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur, 'giving' in all manners, including sharing our SMART goals transparently, has always built strong and enduring work relationships.

When we discuss our SMART goals from a spirit of honest sharing and not from grabbing a self-defined pedestal, there is an opportunity to meet individuals who find inspiration from our stories purely through relatability. They resonate with a certain narrative, a problem, or a past hurdle long surpassed. It is humbling when someone tells you that you have inspired them. For me, it is only a validation from the Universe that we should believe in ourselves and keep focusing on the tasks at hand while being true to ourselves and to everyone we work with. It also adds to the (healthy) responsibility of keeping up the efforts to achieve what we have set out to achieve.

Who doesn't like an inspirational story? Now you can be one too. Lot of people are known to chart out goals, but very few are known to follow through. Your story of perseverance can not only help them start but help them continue and complete.

Another benefit of sharing SMART goals within an organization is the potential for increased collaboration and synergy among team members. When employees openly communicate and share their individual SMART goals, it creates opportunities for colleagues to identify common objectives or complementary goals. This, in turn, can lead to the formation of collaborative projects or initiatives where team members pool their skills and resources to achieve collective success. Sharing goals promotes a sense of unity and shared purpose, fostering a more cohesive and productive work environment where individuals work together to achieve not only their personal targets but also overarching organizational objectives.