SMART Business Goals

I have a phrase I usually use when training people to become coaches, and that's 'setting your client up to succeed', because if a coach can do that they also set themselves up to have a successful client.

As a business coach, I tend to work with successful business owners, executives and entrepreneurs who bring their goals to coaching. However, initial 'lightbulb' moments usually occur when clarifying how SMART those goals actually are.

To remind you, SMART goals are:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Timed

So a great, positive and relatively quick way for you to start this bright new week is to spend 15 or so minutes bringing your top 1, 2, or 3 goals to mind and asking yourself, 'are they SMART'?

If they are, that's wonderful. And of they're not, commit to spending some quality time over the next couple of days to make sure they fulfill the SMART criteria and become truly SMART goals.

Believe me, the process doesn't take long, and you'll feel extra brilliant knowing you've begun the week by setting yourself up to succeed.

Now, that's what I call smart!