- Jan
- 11
- 2018
Goal setting made SMART and easy
Are you made for transformation? Whether you’re looking to transform your life or simply fine tune some areas, the SMART approach to goal setting helps you create tiny habits that can yield big change. Download The SMART Action Plan Worksheet to get started right away.
1. Choose a goal – This is the outcome you want to achieve.
2. Design a SMART Action Plan. This plan is one to three steps you’re ready to take this week to help you achieve your goal. Each step you identify should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Action-based, Realistic/Relevant, and Time-bound.
- Specific: Identify clearly what each step entails.
- Measurable: Make sure you’re specific enough to know when you’ve been successful. “I will eat 3 vegetables 3 days this week” is a measurable step, unlike stating “I will eat more vegetables.”
- Action-based: Every step in your action plan has a verb – what you’re going to do. For example: “I will run, walk, cook, shop or track,” or “I will identify, research, pay attention to…”
- Realistic and relevant: Make sure the statements in your action plan are realistic for you. If you’re not running at all now, for example, it’s probably not realistic to say you’ll run 3 miles 3 times each week.Also, make each step relevant. Know why it’s important to you and how it’s linked to your long-term
goal. - Time-bound: If you’re going to do something more than once, decide how often. If you’re going to do something once, give yourself a deadline. Set each step of your plan into your schedule as you do other important events.
As you create your SMART Action Plan, be sure it is linked to the specific short-term goal you’re working on the move you toward achieving your final goal.
Having a partner can be helpful as well. It will help to keep you engaged and provide you with valuable feedback and constructive advice.
Employee Wellness reminds you to set goals and track your habits using your myWellness account either from your mobile device (download the Virgin Pulse app for easy access) or desktop.
The interactive content on myWellness follows the principles of BJ Fogg, PhD at Stanford University, and incorporates three basic steps to support behavior change. Step 1: Get specific. Step 2: Make it easy. Step 3: Trigger the behavior.
Northwell.edu/myWellness, or use the Virgin Pulse app for your mobile device.
I agree. Having SMART goals is a very key component for setting and accomplishing one’s desire(s). By achieving success you may become contagious(positively) to those around you. In turn it can cause a “domino” effect and transform a department if not more!
SMART goals all the way and thank you Dina for your positive and inspirational post!
Thanks, Woods! You bring great energy and knowledge to your work at EHS. Keep it going:)