20 Smart Answers for SMART Goal Setting

The most successful businesses globally are run by high-performing entrepreneurs with habits that ensure high performance and maximum productivity in their work lives. What propels their successes are the habits they have cultivated and disciplined themselves to stick to throughout their lives. Your habits have an undeniable connection to your success in business. These habits have a connection with how you think, how you feel, how you respond to positive and negative emotions and occurrences.  As a high-performing professional or business owner, you need to cultivate the right habits to lead you on the path to greater success. The habits you cultivate should also position you as a leader in your business while encouraging others, your employees, and maybe even your competitors, to emulate you. Though these habits are those of successful entrepreneurs, simply cultivating these habits and doing nothing to evolve and manage your business effectively won’t change your business. You have to put in the work required to ensure that you achieve your goals. Consistent application of these habits will help you transform your lifestyle and build a better business that sets you on the path to enjoying your ideal business and ideal life.  Applying these 6 habits will help you build an even better business. Pick one of these six habits to help you get started on building an even better business. Then, pick a second one, and so on. Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog.  Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve.  Anne BachrachThe Accountability CoachI’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Entrepreneurs are presented with countless possibilities. Some may tempt them with higher profits, greater efficiency, and more influence. However, impulsively chasing after the “next big thing” can lead to disorganization, a loss of focus, and stagnant growth. This phenomenon is called the shiny object syndrome or SOS and can become a serious hurdle to your personal and professional success. What exactly is shiny object syndrome? Could you have it and if you do, how can you overcome it? Let’s explore 6 strategies to help you overcome shiny object syndrome, so you can be on the path to more quickly have your ideal business and ideal life.Avoid Shiny Object Syndrome and Keep Your Eye on What Matters Shiny object syndrome is nothing more than a fancy name for unnecessary distractions. These distractions take you away from your main goals and make them harder to achieve. If you know what you want and see shiny objects for what they really are, you can avoid being deterred and maintain a laser focus on changes that make a real difference to your bottom line, and keep you on the path to having your ideal business and ideal life. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve.  Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.Aim High,Anne BachrachThe Accountability CoachI’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Would you like a 90 second hack to smashing limiting beliefs? If yes, you need to listen to my interview with Katarina Polonska, Behavioral Scientist, Relationship Coach and Gender Dynamics Scientist. I know you will find my special guest to be very knowledgeable as it relates to the entrepreneur's mindset and smashing our limiting beliefs that are holding us back from being even more successful. Katarina Polonska is a high-performance executive relationship coach and the founder of the Ultimate Match Method. She has a Masters degree from the University of Oxford. She helps successful executives and entrepreneurs become as accomplished in their relationships as they are in their careers. Using her proven 12 step process based on the behavioral science of attraction, disheartened executives can create their ultimate relationship fast - and become successfully in love. Download my Power of Visualization Guidebook today and start transforming your mindset and your business. With exercises and thought-provoking insights, this Guide will help you unlock your full potential and achieve the success you deserve. Don't wait – start visualizing and enjoying your ideal business and ideal life today!  Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/visualization and get my Guidebook right now.  Aim for what you want each and every day!  Anne BachrachThe Accountability Coach™The Results Accelerator™  I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.   Get a daily Accountability Minute single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", by subscribing to The Accountability Minute at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ or you can find The Accountability Minute on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

We have all heard about SMART goal setting. In days gone by, business leaders adopted a set of principles to sustain business growth and achieve goals. These principles were known as SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based. While many corporate giants now believe these principles to be somewhat archaic and not relevant in today’s dynamic, less structured business world, SMART goals can be expanded and revised to suitably fit our current business philosophies. Let’s break this down and delve into each one now. S is for “Specific”Creating specific goals is no less relevant today than it was 20 or more years ago.But let’s ramp it up by adding Stimulating, Systematic, Synergy, and Self-talk to the list of “S” words. M is for “Measurement”In the SMART goal principle, M is for “measureable”, but it can also stand for motivation, memorable, and meaningful.A is for “Achievable” Sure, setting achievable goals is a key factor in ensuring the success of your goal strategy, but what about Action Plan, Articulate, and Acknowledge? R is for “Relevant”Sure, keeping your goals relevant is a high priority, but so is Re-invention and Resolve. T is for “Time-Based” Goals consist of two basic components – the end result and the time it will take you to achieve that end result. So, creating time-based goals is a crucial factor. But so are words like Tactical and Thought-provoking.Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve.  Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

To help you ensure business success, you need to practice ways of effective business communication. Well thought-out communication helps you transfer your message and makes people understand it. Let’s explore four tips for effective business communication.   Want more proven business success tips and resources?  Of course you do… Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog.  Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Want to know more on how to keep more money and give less to the government? If you answered, HECK YES!, you need to listen to my Interview with Roger Pearson, Chief Business Education Officer. He is an expert in Tax Hacks for Entrepreneurs. I know you will find Roger to be a wealth of information related to helping you NOT lose thousands of dollars needlessly in your business, so you can keep more and use it however you choose. For over 50 years, Roger Pearson has created, sold, or managed many small businesses. In 2001, he switched course and began working as a Master Tax Advisor/IRS Enrolled Agent. During that time, he has watched hundreds of small business owners lose thousands of dollars needlessly. His mission is to provide entrepreneurs the knowledge to build a solid foundation under their business to keep more money in their pockets and give less to the government. Sounds good to me!!! Subscribe and get new episodes as they are released. For some great free information on how you might be able to pay less in taxes, and how Roger and his firm can help you with your tax planning services and more, go to https://www.seagulltechnologies.com/.  Aim for what you want each and every day!  Anne BachrachThe Accountability Coach™The Results Accelerator™ I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Entrepreneurs value self-discipline, among other motivation practices. This is because, as a business owner, you are solely responsible for yourself and your success. Your ideas, decisions, work ethics, and commitment to your goals should set you apart from your employees and serve as a way to motivate them to work even harder and better for your business. Even when you have set an important goal, having the required self-discipline can be challenging to achieve this goal. This is why many entrepreneurs work on having better self-discipline due to the many benefits it provides.  Let’s explore 8 ways to improve your self-discipline that will help you be even more successful. Your self-discipline can be the defining virtue that places you and your firm ahead of the game. Analyze your activities and use any or all of these eight ways to improve your self-discipline. In time, you will reap the rewards of your self-discipline performance. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Accountability is more than just a friend that calls you up occasionally to make sure you’re sticking to your weight loss goals. It’s also more than the occasional roundtable discussion with business colleagues checking in on how everyone in the group is doing in terms of hitting their quarterly financial goals. True, meaningful accountability serves to prop you up when you feel discouraged, and also propels you to heights you never thought possible.  While there are many different types of accountability, both business and personal, these 4 types of accountability are ones you need to place in your life immediately.Ultimately, accountability is never just a one-time thing that applies to just a single area of our life. To find success, you need to be open to being challenged in all areas of your life. We can’t usually see our own blind spots – it takes trusted people in our lives to point them out to us and to provide us the support we need to work through those weak points intentionally.Want more proven business success tips and resources?  Of course you do… Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

Do you want to continue to be Exhausted or be Empowered?If you are an Entrepreneur and want to be empowered, you must listen to my interview with Elizabeth Gould, Certified Master Neuroplastician and Best-Selling Author. I know you will find my guest to be super interesting because she analyzes the neuroscience behind the mindset and behaviors of elite athletes to assist with the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and executives, so we can more quickly be even more successful.  Elizabeth Gould is a Certified Master Neuroplastician and Best-selling author. Acclaimed as a contrarian thought leader, Elizabeth’s ability to uplift, empower, and inspire people at the highest level has been acknowledged by Randi Zuckerberg who invited Elizabeth to be a founding member of her leadership institute. Elizabeth’s newest book, ‘Feeling Forwards’ has been endorsed by Tony Robbins. Elizabeth’s super skill is aligning cutting edge neuroscience to unlock a personalized and compelling inner justification inspiring high achievers to refine their aim, align their inner justification and harness consistent behaviors to uplift to the next level – and stay there. Elizabeth has been featured in hundreds of media appearances including interviews on TV shows including Amazon Prime, Bloomberg, Apple TV, NBC, FOX, Sky News, and more.  You can find my interview with Elizabeth at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/, https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573, https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id305208343, and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. Subscribe and get new episodes as they are released.Make sure to get a copy of Elizabeth’s book, Feeling Forwards: How to become the person who has the life you want.Download my Power of Visualization Guidebook today and start transforming your mindset and your business. With exercises and thought-provoking insights, this Guide will help you unlock your full potential and achieve the success you deserve. Don't wait – start visualizing and enjoying your ideal business and ideal life today! Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/visualization and get my Guidebook right now. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.  Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.

There comes a time when you don’t feel like working anymore. It happens to everyone, you are certainly not an exception. Rather, it would be surprising if you haven’t felt that way about a task or project till now. As an entrepreneur, you would have worked hard to get your business to a level where it is successful and stable. Yet, procrastination can tempt you at any time. Particularly if it is a task you don’t like doing, there is a bigger chance you would be enticed towards procrastination.  The general perception among businesspeople is that procrastination is bad. They expect their employees to be productive throughout, not wasting even a single minute while they are at work. However, there is a limit to how much work a person can do at once without getting bored or tired. If they have reached the tipping point, continuing to work beyond that time would actually lead to a drop in quality of performance and prove to be counterproductive. The million-dollar question is whether procrastination is always bad. So, how do you avoid falling in the trap? Let’s talk about 5 practical tips which will help you pass up procrastination, or at least procrastinate on less important activities.  Don't let procrastination hold you back any longer. Download my complimentary Guide to Stopping Procrastination and start creating your ideal business and ideal life today. Simply go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/stop-procrastination to get started. Want more proven business success tips and resources?  Of course you do… Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.   Support the Show.If you would like help sticking to your goals, so you can make more money and work less, and ultimately enjoy having your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Want more business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.