002: Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Having a plan for achieving your goals (1:09)Becomes a list of what you do and what you don’t want to do (1:15)Did you make a resolution? Did you find it hard to stick to the resolution? Then the resolution just went away. (1:52)SMART goals stands for Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time based (3:45)In your business Specific might mean that you want to grow your following on InstagramMeasurable, for example it's January 1st and you have 100 followers and you want to grow your following, you can measure that by January 30th you want to have 200 followersAchievable, making it happen, are you going to post everyday, every other day, twice a day, every two days or maybe do an Instagram live every Wednesday? How many stories you want to post. In essence, what are you doing exactly to make that happen?Relevant, does it make sense? Question whether it is relevant to your business, do you need Instagram for your business? Rather maybe it is Youtube or Linkedin.Time based, when do you want to achieve that by? What time do you want to do this? A month, a year?Smart goals are not just for your business but it is applicable to everything. (6:30)Marathon analogy (7:20)Having big goals and understanding that everything will not happen overnight (9:37)Setting goals in a quarterly basis (10:09)Why is it worth all the hard work it takes to be a self-employed entrepreneur? (12:14)Coming in halfway through the year and feeling like you did not accomplish the goal, continue to try (12:34)