The year slowly comes to an end and athletes now find time to reflect upon past performances and focus on what’s next. As we think about the practices and races of the past year, we automatically ...

If you have big aspirations for 2025—a big deadlift, a marathon, a change in the size of your body—I sure hope you haven’t translated them into the limited, pass-fail box-checking of a SMART goal. But ...

In this post, you’ll learn how to use SMART goal setting to make real progress toward your long-term goals, and you’ll get access to a free downloadable SMART goals worksheet in PDF format to help you ...

An important part of performance development is establishing goals for the performance cycle. The purpose of setting these goals is not to detail your daily activities, but to help you define larger ...

When it comes to fitness, or any kind of personal growth, motivation can come and go. Some days you’re ready to take on the world, and other days, just making it to the gym feels like a win. What ...

The start of the school year often means that your children -and you – may be doing some goal setting. Personally, what happens for me is that we start strong, list some goals, talk about the school ...

I walked by my shiny guitar in our music room. My previous goal was to learn how to play it. I had several guitar books neatly stacked on a nearby table. In the last year, I learned about seven chords ...

When you set a goal, it should be “S.M.A.R.T.,” or so suggests the standard advice (even some of ours!). That stands for Specific, Measurable, something, something, Time-bound—there’s disagreement on ...