If you’re like most fitness enthusiasts, you already know the importance of setting goals that guide your training program. Setting SMART goals is arguably one of the most important steps in ...

If you’ve heard any consultant talk about goal-setting techniques, you’ve heard about the SMART goal framework, but the framework has its limitations. In 1981, George T. Doran, a consultant and former ...

If you're going to set SMART Goals, you deserve to know the truth about their limitations. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (the SMART acronym most commonly defined as ...

Each component of a SMART goal is designed to ensure that you have the proper framework to accomplish an objective. Instead of making open-ended wishes for the future, you make a purposeful plan. For ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. It turns out the SMART ...

Specifically, SMART can limit the scope for freedom, risk-taking, and creativity. At the very least, it can be said that SMART criteria serve to slow innovative moves, rather than encourage them: ...