Why Setting SMART Goals
is Important to Home Business Success

Planning and setting goals can be time consuming, and that puts many people off.

However, I've recently found easy to use goal setting software that makes goal setting much easier - see my Goal Enforcer review.

Experts such as Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho Cybernetics, say that we have a built in guidance system in our brain that directs our actions - like a success instinct. This internal automatic goal seeking mechanism is always alert, trying to guide you towards fulfilment.

How does it know what you want? Maltz says that, "a human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment".

I'll be explaining more about this in a future articles but, for now, the point is that, when you set SMART goals about your home based business, you tell your imagination what you want to achieve. If your imagination believes it (and that's the tricky part), it will then pass your goal on to your in built guidance system.

Most experts on goal setting say that you need to set SMART goals. The letters S M A R and T have been given various different meanings. I've chosen the meanings which, in my view, give the most valuable advice towards actually achieving goals that you set.

M - Motivating - (also measurable) it really helps to have a burning desire to achieve the goal you set. Otherwise it's more difficult to find how to get motivated long term, particularly when you're not having a great day.

A - Aligned - (also attainable or action-oriented) your goals need to make sense in terms of the overall balance of your life, and how you see yourself as a person - your self-image.

R - Relevant - (also realistic or results-oriented) there's no point doing something just because someone else thinks it's a good idea. It's much easier to keep yourself motivated, or simply to show persistence, if you can see a benefit to your own life.

T - Trackable - (also time-based or tangible) how will you know whether you are making progress, or whether you achieved a goal, unless it's possible to track progress. In fact, I find that that keeping track is a key part of keeping myself motivated on a long term project (like this web site).

So my advice is to set SMART goals for your home based business - both long term and short term. My goal setting forms article gives more guidance on how to do this.

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