If you won $5,000,000 tomorrow, what would you do?

What changes would you immediately make to your life?

What would you really want to do with your life if there were no limitations?

Take your answers to these questions, and write them down, this is the foundation for your goals. From here, work backwards, review these seemingly pipe dreams and then make your list SMART.

Specific - Write out exactly what you want to achieve so you know what you are striving for.

Measurable - Add measures so you know when the goal has been reached.

Action-Oriented - With each goal ensure they are action-oriented to indicate an activity that will produce results.

Realistic - Ensure each goal is realistic in that it is practical and can be achieved - You might not become David Swenson or B.K.S. Iyengar, but your goal could be to become as skilled as they are.

Time and Resource Constrained - Ensure there is a definite deadline in place for completion. Once this is done it will become clear if there are any areas with limited availability of resources.

SMART is an acronym that has been used for many years because it helps you clearly define your goals into powerful and accurate statements of intent.

Next week we will take your SMART goals and set a plan of action to ensure you get the steps in place to achieve them.

If you were planning on climbing Mt. Everest would your plan be to jump straight to the top? Probably not, it is more likely you would break the trip down into manageable parts, pack your bag, head to base camp 1, etc. This is the same strategy you need in order to achieve your goals.

List out all of the important tasks that need to be done to achieve your goals. Be sure to specify if you need outside help with anything, or if there are other resources needed.

Each task on your action plan needs to have a date associated with it, so that you can track your progress and celebrate your mini-successes along the way!

Now you have your goals set, and you have your action plan in place, but the biggest challenge is still ahead; staying on track.

Stay on track by surrounding yourself with motivation and support. Create and request from friends that push and desire in order to stick to your guns and work hard for success. Revisit your goal statements and ensure they are inspiring, clear, powerful statements. This will help ensure they're motivating to you!

Reminders are also really important, have some fun with a glue stick, and put together a vision board to summarize your goals. By building a collage with visual representations of what you want, and putting it somewhere in your home where you'll see it every day, it'll help solidify in your mind what you're working towards.

Four weeks in and the routine is starting to get old. Now is a great time to look for alternate ways to reach your goal and keep your plan of action fresh!

When something becomes easy or routine it often becomes boring. Change your routine on occasion and introduce new challenges that will still help you achieve your goals. Try a different yoga style, or take a new route to work, no matter what it is change it up and keep your interest peeked!

It's a good time to reevaluate your goals and action plans. Frequent review forces us to make big decisions and determine priorities in our life.

While reviewing your goals ask yourself these questions, are you tracking well on your goals, or did you bite off too much to chew? Now's the perfect time to keep watch for goals that aren't being achieved on time or for goals on which we keep extending the deadline. How do they need to be revisited?