Finally! Everything You Need to Achieve Your Goals

Do You Struggle To Achieve Your Goals?

For instance:

• Have you had the same goals for years – perhaps losing weight, changing a habit, or getting organized?
• Do you feel like you sabotage yourself and undermine your goals?
• Do you run out of motivation before achieving your objectives?
• Do you know people who achieve their goals, and wonder what they do differently?

If this strikes a chord for you, read on – because there is a solution.

Why Most People Fail To Achieve Their Goals

Maybe you’ve wanted to:

If you’ve ever failed to achieve a goal, and wondered what went wrong, then chances are you made one of the 5 classic mistakes of goal-setting.

5 Classic Goal-Setting Mistakes

Mistake #1:
The goal is too vague to be motivating
EG: I want to lose weight.

Mistake #2:
You don’t know when you’ve achieved your objective
EG: I want to improve my fitness.

Mistake #3:
It’s a fantasy, not a goal
EG: I want a perfectly clean house for this week’s dinner party.

Mistake #4:
The goal competes with something more important
EG: I want a promotion
(if your spouse wants the promotion, and you want to work somewhere else).

Mistake #5:
The goal has no deadline
EG: I want to organize my closet.

These mistakes lead to goals that fail to motivate you – or worse, lead you to sabotage yourself.

Why SMART Goals Work: They Harness Motivation and Remove Self-Sabotage

By avoiding the 5 classic goal-setting mistakes, you can identify and overcome self-sabotage, harness your natural motivation, and set goals that really work for you.

And the best way to avoid the usual mistakes is to set SMART goals.

‘SMART’ is an acronym for the 5 solutions to the 5 goal-setting mistakes.

A SMART Goal is:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Time-Framed.

SMART goal-setting is an approach to creating goals that systematically overcomes every one of the classic goal-setting mistakes. So if you want to avoid the mistakes and achieve your goals, set SMART goals!

The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals: With Step-By-Step Instructions, Worked Examples, Sample Goals And Templates

The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals shows you, step-by-step, exactly how to set SMART goals.

It gives you plenty of worked Examples, including how to make the following goals SMART:

• I Want to Lose Weight
• I Want to Write a Novel
• I Want to Get a Promotion
• I Want to Speak Up In Meetings
• I Want to Make More Money
• I Want to Have Better Friends
• I Want to Spend More Time With Family
• I Want to Be More Productive
• I Want to Create My Ideal Wardrobe
• I Want to Be Happier
• I Want to Have More Fun
• I Want to Declutter My House
• I Want to Start a Business
• I Want to Grow My Business
• I Want to Learn A Language

As each example goes through the SMART goal setting steps, you can see the goal evolve. It’s a great way to internalize the process, so you can apply it to your own goals and objectives.

The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals also includes:

• Templates for creating your own SMART goals.  
• Planners with extra steps that make your goals even more powerful and motivating
• Short case studies showing how others have achieved their goals by making them SMART.

Bonus Products

The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals also comes with:

• A fully interactive, re-usable, SMART Goals Template
• A fully interactive, re-usable, SMART Goals Planner
• A 186-page, fully interactive, re-usable, SMART Goals Journal. The Journal guides you to create SMART goals, organize goal-related actions, identify diary items to schedule, and create milestones and rewards. Each month you set SMART goals across 12 important life areas – helping you to create a balanced life.

These bonuses, together with The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals, give you everything you need to achieve your goals.

How I Used SMART Goals To Reach My Ideal Weight

Achieving My Weight Loss Goal

I’ve been using SMART goals for 20 years or so. That’s a long time! But recently I was reminded of just how powerful this little approach is.

I had a pair of leather pants that had been a couple of sizes too small for many years. About six months before my 43^rd birthday, I decided that I really, really, wanted to fit into those pants again. And I wanted to do it by my birthday.

I wanted to lose weight – but you already know that ‘lose weight’ is a pretty poor goal. In fact, it makes 4 of the 5 classic mistakes – it’s vague; it has no end-point; therefore it isn’t practical; and it has no deadline.

So I created a SMART goal:

I fit comfortably into my leather pants – that is, I can zip them all the way up, walk around, and sit down – by my 43rd birthday.

Unlike ‘lose weight’, this goal was:

• Specific: It spelled out exactly what I wanted – fitting into the pants, rather than vague objectives like getting slimmer or losing weight.
• Measurable: It told me how I’d know when it was achieved – zipping up and walking around in a particular pair of pants.
• Achievable: I had 6 months to go and I was prepared to work out and make changes to my diet – so going down a couple of sizes seemed reasonable.
• Relevant: I love wearing cute clothes, and for some reason 43 felt like the age that I really wanted to reach this goal – so getting into those pants was relevant for me, and not at odds with other priorities.
• Time-framed: I had a clear date for reaching my goal – my 43^rd birthday.

When you compare my SMART goal with the goal ‘I want to lose weight’, you can see how the SMART goal has a lot more power behind it.

And because my goal was so well-defined, I had a ready-made process for achieving it. In The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals I explain how the SMART goal setting process made all the difference to my success. By my 43^rd birthday I was walking around in my leather pants.

Why You’ll Love It: Everything You Need To Achieve Your Goals

The benefits of the Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals include:

	It’s Comprehensive The Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals spans 84 interactive, printable pages and contains mistakes to avoid, step-by-step instructions, 15 worked examples, plus sample goals, templates, planners, and short case studies.
	It’s Time-Effective SMART Goals Guides are guaranteed 100% fluff-free. No ponderous introductions, long-winded anecdotes, or time-wasting guff. Just what you need to know, simply explained.
	You Get A Bonus Interactive SMART Goals Template As well as the Template in the Guide, you receive a bonus fully interactive SMART Goals Template for creating your own SMART goals, step-by step. You can save each of your goals as a new file.
	You Get A Bonus Interactive SMART Goals Planner As well as the Planner in the Guide, you receive a bonus fully interactive SMART Goals Planner for creating your own SMART goals, with added steps for extra power. You can save each of your goals as a new file.
	You Get A Bonus Interactive SMART Goals Journal Each month you set SMART goals, organize goal-related actions, identify diary items to schedule, and create milestones and rewards across 12 important life areas – helping you to create a balanced life. (Retail price $39.)
	It’s Fully Interactive Our clever PDFs let you enter text, save, print, search, edit and re-use. No special software is needed – they work with the free Adobe PDF Reader on Mac and Windows.
	It’s Economical You get an entire system for setting SMART goals as well as a Template, Planner and Journal that are endlessly re-usable. Plus, you save money as you stop wasting money on goals that aren’t SMART.
	It’s iPhone Compatible You can view your Guide, Journal, Templates and Planners right from your iPhone.
	PLUS – You Get 12 Months’ of Free Upgrades Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals includes 12 months’ of free upgrades. Any time we release a new version, add a worksheet, or include a bonus, you can log in and download your new files.

What You’ll Save: Time, Energy and Money

How much time, energy and money has the struggle to achieve your goals cost you?

• How much time have you spent starting a goal, procrastinating, and giving up ?
• How much energy have you lost to frustration, disappointment and self-recriminations?
• How much money have you wasted on goals that you’ve quickly lost interest in?

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Plus: 12 Months’ of Free Upgrades

Your Complete Guide To Setting SMART Goals includes 12 months’ of free upgrades. That means that any time we release a new version, add worksheets or include a bonus, you can log in and download the new files for yourself.