Ok, we are one month into the New Year. How is it going? Are you still on track to achieve your New Year’s resolutions or is the fire starting to die down? In the last two blogs, we talked about the importance of goal-setting and self-motivation. The problem is, motivation goes up and down so we can’t rely solely on motivation to get us to the finish line. We also need discipline.
We are already halfway through the first month of the new year! How are you doing with the resolutions you made at the beginning of the year? Are you still on track? Are you still feeling the same motivation and sense of excitement? Hopefully you answered yes to the last couple of questions. If so, this means that you did a great job setting SMART goals. But, even with SMART goals, motivation can wax and wane.
Goal setting is something we do in our day to day lives whether we realize it or not. Some goals might be smaller than others like getting a load of laundry done, while some may be larger, like losing 10 pounds. Either way, goals should meet certain criteria - they should be “SMART”. SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.
