Designing Goals and Forming Habits That Last a Lifetime

Achieve Your Dreams with Just 2 New Skills

Around the globe, people like to set goals for themselves at the start of a new year. The beginning of 2020 was no different — in fact, perhaps more people than usual set resolutions for themselves to kick off the decade. 🎉 But studies show that by February, 80% of folks with these goals have already failed. So why are we so bad at keeping New Year’s Resolutions? 🤔

It boils down to 2 skills that you can learn in the next 5 minutes:

1) Designing SMART goals 🏁
2) Forming new habits 🛌

You might not know how to set goals.

Common goals you’ve heard when going into a new year are objectives like exercising more 🏃‍♀️or getting less screen time 📲. These are amazing accomplishments to aim for! …So what is it that makes these goals flop? They’re not very smart.

A SMART goal is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound. Writing a SMART goals is a great skill to practice, since the nature of the goal itself makes it more achievable. Making your goal specific clears up the grey areas of what you hope to accomplish, and making it measurable means…