Personal Narrative: My SMART Goal

At the beginning of the year, when I was being coached by April, I filled out a goal sheet. On this goal sheet, I wrote my goal as:

"My goal is to be more open and trusting of others. I want to be more spontaneous and able to let go."

While working with Ericka, I found that this was not a SMART goal for me. There were larger issues that kept me from trusting, and they would take a lot more than five coaching sessions to work out. Ericka challenged me to come up with a new goal, a SMART goal. This was the goal, I emailed Ericka a few days later:

"My goal is to be able to more clearly set a standard for what my group and myself are capable of accomplishing and identifying the values and principles guiding what we are doing. By April, I want