Why set goals? What's in it for you?
Goal setting achieves the following positives:
Focuses your efforts and improves your direction in life
Causes you to set priorities and become more organized
Turns your wishful thinking into reality
Points out to you your successes as you achieve them, motivating you on to further success
Can improve your self-esteem
Makes you responsible for your own life it causes you to define your own value system
Makes you aware of your strengths, as you can use to overcome obstacles and solve problems
Points out your weaknesses, meaning you can begin setting new goals to improve in those areas and turn them into strengths
Record keeping is important. Writing down your goals and action plans represents a commitment; otherwise your dreams are merely wishful thinking. You can re-read and visualize written goals. They are credible and legitimate, and they live and lead you onward. When you write, you have begun to act; inertia is gone. You sense accomplishment already...