What Is SMART Technique? Try to select a personal or professional goal you want to achieve. Address each part of the SMART technique. And, you will know why it is a powerful tool.

Try to select a personal or professional goal you want to achieve. Address each part of the SMART technique. And, you will know why it is a powerful tool.

Example:

There are lots of goals I want to achieve such as run my own business, play guitar, latte art, get an MBA, or live in some beautiful places. Let's start with one of my personal goal I want to achieve which is latte art. I actually address this goal process with a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Action) way. But if I readdress it with SMART, I would make it like the following.

Specific:

A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. So I have to set a specific goal by this some questions like below:

1. Who is involved? Only me.

2. What do I want to accomplish? A clear heart pattern.

3. When do I want to establish it? A year later.

4. Which are the requirements and constraints? Finish the latte art process within 15 seconds.

5.The reasons, purpose or benefits of why I want to accomplish the goal? Prove myself that I can do it.

Instead of setting the general goal “Latte art”, I set a specific goal “Practice it at least 3 times a week and post it on social media to some get reviews. The reviews should be at least 50% positive.” 

Measurable

With measurable, I have to establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal I set. I have to measure my progress, stay on track, reach my target dates. To determine if I goal is measurable, I ask myself how many positive reviews I want to get? Then I set it to 50%. Another question is how will I know when it is accomplished? Like I have set in the first place, the reviews should be at least 50% positive.

Attainable

I must develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them and seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring myself closer to the achievement of my goals. I bought a new espresso machine in order to make foam milk and I try to keep myself healthy to practice even more days and times. By doing this, goals that may have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because my goal shrink, but because I grow and expand to match them. I list the goals I build on the paper then I can see how is it going.

Realistic

To be realistic, my goal must be both willing and able to work. When I try to decide how high my goal should be, consider that a high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Under the rule of high but realistic, I set myself to practice at least 3 times a week.

Timely

With no time frame tied to it, there’s no sense of urgency. So, to make sure my goal being grounded within a time frame. I must set my goal within a timeframe like the deadline is a year from now not “Someday”.

Finally, I believe I can go as far as my mind lets me. What I believe, I can achieve.