Any good personal development plan will involve learning how to set goals. Did you set some smart goals this year? No, I mean SMART goals – yes, there is a difference! Anyone can set goals that seem “smart” at the time – they are well thought out and considered, or they are the same goals that the person has set before but not accomplished yet. Like the person who just reuses the same “New Year’s Resolutions” list year after year, with just changing the year at the top – those kinds of goals are never achieved.

Only SMART goals follow the SMART plan. Confused? Let’s fix that. SMART is an acronym to help one set goals. SMART helps goal setting be effective and productive. Let’s take a good look at the SMART acronym. [Read more…]

Many people do not realize just how important goal setting important really is, especially when used in conjunction with a good planning system like the Franklin Cover Plan Plus. There is almost nothing more important than goal setting for yourself, because you need to have goals set for yourself so that you have things to look forward to and try to achieve to, so that you have something to look forward to and work towards.

There are many different things that you could set as goals in your life, and it really all depends on what it is that you want to do in your life. For instance maybe you want to become a pilot, and so you should start off by setting a goal that you go with a pilot for a flight, and then have your next goal be to learn how to fly, and then after that have a goal of flying a plane on your own. [Read more…]