SMART goals are too big, too much like “you fail if you don’t do everything.” But going on a Quest sounds like something where you can’t honestly fail. The Quest can fail, but unless it kills you, you haven’t. A goal (hit $50K in 3rd quarter) has a success metric that fails you if you don’t reach it. A Quest (hit $50k in 4th quarter) has a success metric whether the Quest failed or not, but you’re still here and have developed yourself into someone who might have been able to do it.Psycho-cybernetics says to see your goal as actual or potential when you begin. Knowing you can reach your goal makes you more likely to achieve it. Knowing London exists makes it more likely you can travel there than if you’re searching for a mythical city that might not.A Quest can see the goal as actual (search the area where the city is said to exist), and if you didn’t find it, you didn’t fail. You have eliminated a location to search.