Goal setting doesn't require much physical exertion, but sometimes it causes mental exhaustion, and writer's cramp.
After you create your goals for each month of the next year work on the activities necessary each week to accomplish those goals for the upcoming month.
At the end of each month spend a couple of hours studying your goals for the next month.
Divide them into four sections, one for each week, and set up a page for each week in your goal book.
Once you know what efforts your goals need from you each week for the next month you only need figure out what activities you'll complete each day.
Do that at the end of each week - write out your tasks for each day over the next week.
These activities are those required to move you toward the goal you set for the end of each week.
At the end of each day look at where you are for that week, and write out (in detail) what efforts you need tomorrow to reach your target for the day after tomorrow.
Just take one step at a time.
This is the easiest part of your goal-setting process because you only work on the tiny things you must do to reach the big things you want.
Focus on the important activities.
Urgent distractions constantly pop up in your life.
Friends call to talk.
A ringing telephone is urgent because it wants your attention right now, but only those actions that are important to where you're going bring you the success you want.
I don't mean you shouldn't talk to your friends; you need your social life.
I am saying be aware of how much time you spend on the different things you do.
Understand the "time value" of your every activity.
You must decide how much time you'll spend doing things that won't accomplish what you want in your life.
After you have your goal book set up you have a life's success plan.
Start following the plan, and each time you reach one of those goals (even the daily ones) write victory next to it.
Some day you'll enjoy looking back over this notebook and reading about all of your successes.
Make sure your goals include having fun too.
You need balance to live a happy life.
Set your goals for balance in what is important to you.
Goals for your work time, goals for your family time, goals for your personal time, goals for your playtime, and goals for your worship time.
Balance is the key to happiness.
Why is it important to write your goals? Why is it very effective to tell others what your goals are? (Keep in mind that you only tell your goals to people you know want to see you succeed.
) You'll find many people in your life try to talk you out of doing things because they want to hold you back.
These people are afraid to step out and create a life of quality because they are stuck in a comfort zone.
I've found myself guilty of this in the past.
Don't get stuck in that rut.
You can do anything you want to do.
You just have to really want to do that thing.
Want it more than anything else, and you'll get it.
Write your goals down so you can look at them often and track your progress.
Write your goals down so you don't forget them.
Write your goals down so you have a map to follow toward a quality of life that most people only dream about.
Write your goals down in a goal book, and keep notes in that book as you live your life, so you have a record of your life to pass on to your grandchildren.
Hopefully that record will help them live a life of high quality.
Write your goals so you have a notebook of your dreams to carry with you.
When someone asks how he can help you with your life's plan, open your notebook.
With written goals you can show them what you're trying to do.