Now that you know the meaning of SMART objectives, allow me to apply this to my Business Goal Setting.

Specific

What do I want to achieve? I want to achieve a passive income in my online business.

Why do I want to achieve it? I want to top up my monthly income on my part-time job and be able to work from home in the future.

Who will help me? Wealthy Affiliate Community

Where will I achieve it? Wealthy Affiliate

Measurable

How much? My goal is to achieve a monthly income of £500 per month.

How will I know if it has been achieved? My target is after a year of opening my online business.

Achievable

How can the goal be achieved?My goal can be achieved by staying focused and persistent throughout the lessons and training at Wealthy Affiliate

How is realistic is the goal based on other limitations? By managing my time wisely through setting a time schedule of my business activities besides my activities at home and at my part-time job.

Relevant

Does this have a value or importance? My website should have a value in helping people meet their particular needs.

Is this the proper time? My website is very timely in today’s current issues on autism.

Does this match my other efforts and needs? My website does not only help people meet their particular needs to the information that they can get but also help me in attaining my mission and advocacy.

Am I the right person? I think I am the right person that my readers on my website could rely on because my website is based on my own personal experience with my child with autism.

Is it applicable in the current socio-economic climate? I believe that the information on my website applies in the current socio-economic climate.

Time-Bound

When? I want to achieve my financial goal (£500 per month) after a year’s time.

What can I do six months from now? Since I am on my fifth month in my online business, I could say that I have learned a lot from my online learning here at WA. I am almost at the end of my Certification Program and am currently on Course 5. I have learned how to use keywords to increase my ranking on Google, how to create quality content, use Social Media to help me increase my ranking and how to apply and be accepted into two affiliate programs and in Google AdSense. This is what I have done so far.

What can I do today? I should continue to stay focus and persistent in creating good quality contents on my website.