Be SMART! Goal Setting Tips For 2023

It’s that season again where New Year resolution is a viral conversation. While you don’t want to take the cliché approach, resolutions are actually very important for achieving goals. It gives you a sense of preparedness and helps to guide your activities and decisions all through a set period. Ultimately, it helps to ensure that you’re actually growing.

As you set your life goal this period, your health and fitness goals should be a huge part of it.?

5 Key Approaches to Goal Setting

Setting a fitness goal is one thing, but achieving it is another. So, let's talk about how to make sure that the "achieve" part actually happens.?

1. Be date specific

In setting your fitness goals, ensure that you have a timeline as to when the journey starts and ends. This involves splitting your goals into actionable activities and allocating a timeline to each one of them. Doing this not only tells you what you want to achieve but how to achieve them.?

2. Break Short term goals into short and achievable goals

As mentioned in point one, the actionable activities are short-term goals. Achieving one will bring you a step closer to the big picture.?

3. Write them down

The fastest way to success is to have a plan/create a good strategy and have it visibly recorded. Place it in your journal, vision board or a focal place at home or work. This way, you don’t end up conceptualizing a perfect growth plan and forget to achieve it.

4. Track your progress?

Small wins keep you motivated for big wins, and early detected failure averts stagnation. This helps you see what you have achieved and how much more effort you need to complete the goal.

5. Get an accountability partner

It is not just enough to set goals and keep them to yourself. Share them with someone who can follow up to ensure you achieve them. For best performance, your accountability partner should either be your fitness trainer, mentor or someone a step (or more) ahead of you. Your friends or mates can also support this.

Key Takeaway

While this article was designed for setting fitness goals, you can adopt this same strategy for your career goals and otherwise.?

Finally, remember that nothing good comes easy. You have to work hard for anything worthwhile!