Last year, some writer friends and I ran a Mastermind group with the idea of helping each other to reach our goals. It was a huge success. And though much of that success is due to meeting weekly to seek advice from our fellow creative entrepreneurs, most of our success was due to setting smart, actionable, measurable goals at the beginning of the year.

To prepare for that planning meeting this year, I read a bunch of studies and advice around goal-setting. I decided to share it here.

Why not...