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SMART Financial Goal-Setting

Last Updated: February 20, 2007 | Related resource areas: Personal Finance

To get where you want to go in life, it is important to decide in advance how you will get there. Goals are signposts on the highway to the future. They serve as your road map to personal, career, and financial success. By keeping specific goals in view, you can direct your energies toward achieving your goals.

SMART goals need to be written down on paper to reinforce their importance. Use the SMART Goal Setting Worksheet to set some short-term (less than 3 months), intermediate-term (3 to 6 months), and long-term (one year or longer) financial goals that follow the SMART goal format.


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Short-Term, Intermediate-Term, and Long-Term Goal Setting Examples -- PDF Format. Use these examples as a guide for developing your own goals.


Remember Your SMART Goals

SSpecific
MMeasurable, Mutual, Motivated
AAttainable
RRelevant, Realistic, Resources, Review, Revise
TTime-line, Trade-offs

More information:

Financial Security: Financial Planning Process, Financial Security: Goal-Setting

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