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Small Business Info In the Spotlight | More Topics |   from Darrell Zahorsky Millions of Americans will embark on the process of making New Year's resolutions for 2010. Many small business owners will be setting business goals for 2010 as well. Yet, surveys show over half of New Year's resolutions fail. One common cause of failure is a lack of SMART goal setting. The SMART process of setting business goals and objectives is nothing new. However, I was inclined to offer a review of this process since many businesses haven't heard of the process or simply forgot the principles. Make 2010 your best year and apply SMART to your company.   In the Spotlight The 5 Steps to Setting SMART Business Goals Whether you have a 50-employee company or an empire of one, your business success depends on your ability to set and achieve goals. Put your business on the fast-track by applying the principles of SMART business goal setting.              More Topics Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for Business Success 7 Habits of Business Success Have You Created an Impossible Business? Get a Goal Buddy The Awesome Power of Goal Setting 10 Quick Tips to Improve Your Business Starting a Business: The First 90 Days It's Time For A New Year's Revolution No, that's not a typo in the title. Resolutions are easy; most of us make them at least once a year. A revolution, on the other hand, is something you may not have made since you started your small business. Starting a small business is quite revolutionary. When you began there were many details of your life that changed. Some of those changes were intentional, others accidental; some you liked, some you didn't. Other changes you always meant to make just never happened.   Why Goal Setting Fails Why don't most people set and achieve personal goals, career goals and business goals? Learn the five misuses of a potentially positive, powerful practice: goal setting for personal goals, career goals and business goals.     Sponsored Links   Feeling Under the Weather? Evaluating Your Cold Symptoms How to tell when a runny nose is just a cold, and when it might be turning into something more serious and require a visit to the doctor. More> Small Business Information Ads Goals Achievement Small Business Tool Employee Benefits Business Model Cold Treatment Advertisement     Visit Related About GuideSites: Entrepreneurs Management Human Resources Marketing Economics   Search About      Sign up for more free newsletters on favorite topics. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Small Business Info newsletter as adamsmith016@GMAIL.COM. If you wish to change or remove your email address, please visit: http://www.about.com/nl/usgs.htm?nl=sbinformation&e=adamsmith016@GMAIL.COM About respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy. Our Contact Information. 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2008 About, Inc.