S.M.A.R.T Consistency- posted by Sean St. Onge

Having the fortune of holding three different jobs, (although it is well known that I feel my occupation is predominantly being a trainer/coach) I encounter many similarities. You can surmise that being a bartender, trainer/coach, and direct support professional you would run into similar "problems." Personal attention is the name of the game for all three of the jobs . Should my "service" suffer, my clients, and patrons suffer. Also their goals and aspirations suffer. Yet consistency and procrastination in all three fields seem to arise all too often.  In reference to training though, everyone deals with bouts of procrastination. Just short of Jillian Michaels style, yelling/screaming training, I prefer dig a little deeper and find the source of what is impeding any and all progress to one's goals.

Goal setting is something that seems to be lost on many, or it is seen as just another cliche. Maybe the root of many of our procrastinations is poor fundamental planning and goal setting. We all strive to be