Your Guide to Making SMART Goals

By
Ron K
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Regardless of whether you’re training for your first marathon, building muscle, or trying to lose weight, setting goals will help you get there. SMART goals help you create a strategy to reach your goals as well as coming up with lifestyle changes that are in line with these goals. Here’s what SMART goals are and how you can implement them into your lifestyle.

Specific

One of the problems with goals is that they are often too broad and it’s hard to take the steps to actually reach them. Narrow your goal down and make them as specific as possible.

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Happy Monday, Everyone! As we come back to our schedules from a holiday weekend, we want to remind you of your SMART goals. One of the main tenants of our personalized work with our clients is the formation of SMART goals in the process of making progress towards their overall health goals. These goals are Specific, Measurable, realistically Attainable, Realistic for your life circumstances, & Time-bound. We are challenging you to make a SMART goal this week. We’d love for you to share them in the comments, and/or tag a friend you think could use some goal work this week! #re4m #re4mlife #goals #smartgoals #fitness #eating #nutrition #sleep #sleephygiene #stress #stressrelief #stressmanagement #progress #progressgoals #whole #whole30 #wholefoods #wholistichealth

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Measurable

Your goal also needs to be measurable, there needs to be a way to monitor your process and how you measure it depends on your goal.

Attainable

When setting goals, you need to be realistic and set ones you can actually achieve. Once you’ve reached your goal, you can always set a new one, but if you set one that’s unattainable, you’ll give up and feel frustrated. Keep in mind your lifestyle, genetics, and schedule.

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Relevant

You have to be motivated to reach your goals and just because your doctor told you to lead a healthier lifestyle, it doesn’t mean you will do it if you don’t want to. Think about why you want to make the changes when setting goals and write it down so you can refer to it when you’re feeling unmotivated.

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⁣ 📈 ACCOUNTABILITY 📈 ⁣ ⁣ Sometimes it’s hard to keep yourself accountable , especially if motivating yourself is difficult and you don’t have an external force to help⁣ ⁣ You have to WANT something. To REALLY WANT it. Once you are on that mindset, it is soooo much easier to do what you want⁣ ⁣ It is easy to get side tracked and not accomplish what you want, so here are some tips and tricks to keep yourself accountable 🤩⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Make a checklist! ⁣ ⁣ Write down what you want to accomplish for the next day. They can be tiny or large, but regardless make sure you can check off the list as the day goes on!! ⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Get an accountability buddy! ⁣ ⁣ If you have someone to help keep you accountable, your goals can be easier to obtain! Especially when they want to achieve the same thing ⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Set better goals for yourself! ⁣ ⁣ Micro goals are so important. A broad goal of “get healthier” can mean a lot of things! Use SMART. (S)pecific, (M)easurable, (A)chievable, (R)elevant, (T)imely. Make your goals specific so you can keep checking them off your list to continue to achieve bigger things⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Reward yourself! ⁣ ⁣ Whether that be a treat at the end of the night, leaving work early, or having a chill day, allow yourself to be proud and reward yourself for the stuff you checked off!⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Do one task at a time! ⁣ ⁣ I am definitely a culprit of this. I try to get everything done at once and then finish nothing. Finish one goal and move onto the next. This will help you to feel more accomplished, to actually get stuff done, and to continuously keep yourself accountable. ⁣ ⁣ I have a daily checklist that I try to hold everyday. Swipe to see 😍 ⁣ ⁣ What are some ways that allow you to keep YOURSELF accountable?⁣ ⁣ Comment Below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼⁣

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Time-Bound

Goals that are time bound with an actual deadline like a schedule race or vacation, makes it easier to attain the goal. Try and keep the deadlines short as you can set the goals each month or adjust them when needed.

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Monday's are not everyone's favourite day of the week. But let's look at it differently. It's a new week, a new day, and time for a fresh start.⁠ It is such a gorgeous day out today. ⁠ Goals are important when trying to make changes to your nutrition. Effective goal setting will lead to a higher likelihood of success. My one word of advice, start small. Small goals lead to big changes.⁠ ⁠ When I meet with my clients, goal setting is an integral part of our coaching session.⁠ Setting goals can be challenging, so I’ll help you determine a goal that is 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪, one that is achievable no matter where you are in your health journey. ⁠ What sort of goals do you have this week?⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ ⁠#nutrition #health #healthy #nutritioncoach #healthcoach #summer #wholefoods #veggies #yyc #yycliving #yycmoms #yyclife #yycbusiness #yycmomprenuer #recipes #intuitiveeating #healthyrecipes #smoothies #mealplanning #mealprep #familynutrition #lifecoach #goalsetting #tinyhabits # #habitchange #smartgoals #yycfemprenuer #behaviourchange #smallchanges

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