“When it comes to goal-setting, we would do well to use a slightly modified version of Peter Drucker’s “SMART Goals” as a guide. Any goal we set should be: Specific Measurable Actionable Realistic Time-Bound (As my colleague Thomas Heath has pointed out to me, the original SMART Goals used the word “Attainable” as letter A; however, this should already be a given. He prefers using “Actionable” here, as this is serves as a better guide for setting goals we can easily convert to actionable steps, and I completely agree.)”