Last week I hosted my fall dreaming & intentions workshop (link to the replay).
If you've attended one of these, you'll know that I don't walk people through SMART goals. I'm not sure I even mention the word "goals" in most of them.
For big picture visioning, I prefer the idea of intention setting rather than goal setting.
I find specific goals to be helpful for smaller concrete things, like how many new clients I'd like to work with this week or month, or how many continuing education credits to plan.
For longer-term visioning, though, I have a very hard time with goal setting.
I find that my practice flows along a path I can't predict and don't necessarily want to predict.
I know (loosely) the kind of work I want to do, and I know how I want to show up in the world. Beyond that, I find it less stressful and more fun to take things one season at a time.
So, when I came across this quote from the GQ article about John Malkovich in a book I'm reading (I Didn't Do the Thing Today by Madeline Dore), it resonated with me:
Accomplishment may be the result of ambition or drive. And I think I probably have lots of drive. But I don’t have any ambition. I never really had any. I don’t have a hugely high opinion of ambition. I think of ambition as the need to prove something to others, and the need to be recognized. A need for rewards outside of the work. Drive motivates you to do whatever it is you’re doing as well as you can.
I especially love that last bit - to do whatever you're doing as well as you can.
Here's to showing up in the best ways we know how 
Take care,
Camille
