SMART Goals And Beyond: Goal Setting Using Latest Research
SMART Goals And Beyond: Goal Setting Using Latest Research
This course is part of Personal Development And Business Productivity - 2026 Specialization
Instructor: Alex Genadinik
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January 2026
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Goal setting using Neuroscience, time management, and practical exercises to help you identify your most important goals, and get on your way to attaining them.
Become a masterful sculptor of your life who gets every step right! RECENT UPDATE ADDED Biology to understand what hormones are released to make you feel passionate about your goals. Decision-making strategies for better goal setting. Planning to achieve the goals you choose. Exercises to help you identify your main goals. My experience helping thousands of entrepreneurs set and achieve their goals. My lifelong goal setting learning from some of the top personal development coaches like Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, and Zig Ziegler Behavioral psychology for understanding of human behavior. "Self development goals" and "personal growth goals" that will help you achieve personal growth. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON GOAL SETTING This course highlights the work of some of the top scientists and researchers from some of the top universities in the world. You can trust and rest assured that the information on goal setting is the most authoritative information on this topic because it does not come from options or guessing. The information in this course is all based on Scientific research. WHY GOAL SETTING IS IMPORTANT Your goals are the foundation of everything you do in your personal and professional life. Everything you do is based on your goals. So setting the right goals and focusing on the right goals for you is monumentally important. Imagine looking back at your life and realizing that you pursued wrong goals or mis-goals. It would be a mis-life. Don't let that happen to you. Sign up for this course, understand the ideas behind goal setting, learn to identify your correct goals, and get on your way to achieving them. CONTEXT: SMART GOALS VS. ABC GOALS VS. GENERAL GOAL SETTING In the world of goal setting, you may hear about different strategies like SMART goals, ABC goals, and other techniques. There are a few themes in goal setting that unite these concepts. They are very related. SMART goals is just an acronym. It stands for: S - Specific M - Measurable A - Actionable R - Relevant T - Time bound UNLOCK TRUE FULFILLMENT AND MOTIVATION If you can't seem to get motivated to do your work or don't feel fulfilled by it, the reason is likely that you had not done proper goal setting before, and are on a path to achieve mediocre goals. With proper goal setting, you increase your chances to find the true goals that are most important for your life, and get all your motivation and fulfillment from working towards those goals. Create personal development plans and personal work goals to have a clear vision towards which to strive. MANAGING DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOALS Goal setting is a big concept. Within goal setting there are smaller categories like professional development goals, personal development goals, self development goals, personal work goals, and personal growth goals. The course will show you how to achieve work-life-balance and a feeling of fulfillment by balancing all those goals. INSTRUCTOR EXPERIENCE I've been an entrepreneur for 20+ years, have coached 1,000+ entrepreneurs, taught 850,000+ students, impacted millions of entrepreneurs worldwide creating 6 and 7-figure businesses in the process, and I would love to help you. I've helped hundreds of coaching clients specifically with goal setting to make sure they identify the right goals and get on a path to achieving what's truly important for them, and I'd love to help you with goal setting too. WORLD-CLASS STUDENT SUPPORT: RESPONSIVE AND CARING INSTRUCTOR If you have questions, know that I am here to help! I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don't respond. Well, I do because: 1) I care about my students. 2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money's worth from the course. MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE The goal setting course comes with an unconditional, Udemy-backed, 30-day money-back guarantee. This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed just like I've done for thousands of my other students. Invest in your future. Enroll now, set the right goals, and set your sails towards the horizon of achievement.
What's included
3 videos
3 videosβ’Total 12 minutes
- Welcome to your goal setting and personal development journeyβ’2 minutes
- Neuroscience of goal-setting: Dopamine and maintaining your motivationβ’8 minutes
- Story from Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" as example for seizing your lifeβ’2 minutes
What's included
6 videos
6 videosβ’Total 17 minutes
- Why goal setting is important: It sets your life in the right trajectoryβ’2 minutes
- SMART goals and ABC goals, and the difference of goals and wishesβ’3 minutes
- SMART goals: setting examples of goals and non-goalsβ’3 minutes
- More advanced than SMART goals: intelligently choosing your goal difficultyβ’3 minutes
- Reward prediction error - how you set goals can help you manage Dopamine levelsβ’3 minutes
- Introduction to the goal setting research of Dr. Emily Balcetisβ’2 minutes
What's included
3 videos
3 videosβ’Total 6 minutes
- Goal visualizations for discipline and finding willpower, and self-controlβ’3 minutes
- Study by Dr. Emily Balcetis on goals, focus, and achievementβ’2 minutes
- Exercise: Create visuals of your goalsβ’1 minute
What's included
4 videos
4 videosβ’Total 22 minutes
- Goal planning and creating systems to help you with SMART goalsβ’4 minutes
- Advanced goal planning with a professional development plan (PDP)β’6 minutes
- Plan your professional development goals goals or personal development goalsβ’4 minutes
- Example of goal planning your personal development goalsβ’8 minutes
Organizing your goal setting
What's included
9 videos
9 videosβ’Total 25 minutes
- Don't listen to people who say you can't. Use goal setting to keep a targetβ’2 minutes
- 80-20 rule for your goal setting and importance of focusβ’2 minutes
- Ego-based mental trap that will make you pursue mis-goals or wrong goalsβ’3 minutes
- GOAL SETTING EXERCISE: Set your professional development goalsβ’1 minute
- GOAL SETTING EXERCISE ANSWER: Correctly set your professional development goalsβ’2 minutes
- Many-goals exercise: common issue with personal growth goalsβ’4 minutes
- Many-goals exercise - answer oneβ’5 minutes
- Many-goals exercise - answer twoβ’2 minutes
- Many-goals exercise - answer three that's less theory and more real-worldβ’5 minutes
What's included
4 videos1 assignment
4 videosβ’Total 14 minutes
- Long-term goal setting introductionβ’1 minute
- Case study of decision-making by Paul Graham to reach gigantic goalsβ’6 minutes
- Long-term goal-setting and approach by Elon Musk with extreme risk takingβ’3 minutes
- The Marshmallow test - Stanford study of the best predictor of future successβ’4 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Course testβ’30 minutes
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