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Goal-Setting: SMART + V & other coaching framework

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SMART plus V connects goals to the client's values, not just the acronym.

1. Health Coach Radio focuses on SMART plus V goal setting for health coaches and client work. 2. Erin Power is the host, a health coach, and a health coaching educator and mentor who presents the framework. 3. The episode asks how SMART goals change when they are tied to a client's values. 4. Erin keeps the classic SMART elements of specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-specific goals. 5. She says she does not tell clients she is using SMART; she uses it in her own head. 6. The added V stands for values, and Erin links it to intrinsic motivation. 7. Her example goal is getting to bed earlier, which she uses to show the full coaching process. 8. The value prompt asks Bob why sleep feels like the most important thing to tackle this week. 9. Erin treats relevance as a check against bigger outcome goals like losing 50 pounds, improving an ultramarathon time, or getting pregnant. 10. She says the client stays in a leadership role and gets to decide what matters. 11. Discovery questions cover bedtime, evening wind down, bedroom comfort, wake-ups, alarm clocks, phones, pets, and spouses. 12. Erin says a bad pillow or neck pain can change the goal entirely. 13. Once the goal is clear, she builds specificity around 10:30 p.m. instead of 11:00 p.m. 14. She and the client might set the goal for Tuesday and Wednesday because of rec sports leagues on other nights. 15. The plan can include dimming lights at 9:00 p.m., reducing screens, reading in bed, and putting the cat in the basement. 16. Erin keeps returning to attainable goals by scaling back when the full week is unrealistic. 17. CLEAR adds collaborative, limited, emotional, appreciable, and refinable language to the same sleep example. 18. WHOOP, HARD, PACT, and backward goal setting each add a different way to test obstacles, values, and follow-through. 19. Coaches who teach goal setting, behavior change, or health-coaching basics will get practical language here. 20. Listeners wanting a story-driven interview or a guest conversation may skip it.

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