Why Setting SMART Goals Boosts your Self-Confidence
and how to avoid downtalking your achievements
Specific — what are you trying to achieve, how, and why?
Be precise. When you’re not, it’s impacting your self-efficacy, a key element of self-confidence. Self-efficacy is your trust in your ability to overcome challenges, it comes from your experience of overcoming challenges. If you’re not specific, you can’t quite register in your mind overcoming the challenge, which lowers your trust in your ability to overcome the next one.
Measurable — How do you measure success?
Again you don’t want your mind to default to a classic ‘yea it’s good but could have been better’ when you reach your goal. Set a measure for success, ideally data based so it’s undeniable.
If you reach it, register the success (AKA register yet another instance where you overcame a challenge).
Achievable — Be realistic and go for something attainable.
Yes, aim for the moon and you’ll end up in the stars… That’s great for your vision and direction, not for your goals. Set goals you can achieve, they can be stretched goals, but they have to be doable given your…
