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After setting your goals the challenge has just began. You are susceptible certain pitfalls that can cause you to miss your goal entirely. Here are 3 common mistakes that you need to avoid:

Not Writing Them Down. Not writing your goals down leads to you getting off track. So often we don’t really fail to hit our goal we simply forget what the goal is and then we move on to something else.

Solution: Write your goal on cards and place them in places where you will see them regularly during your day. This helps to keep them on your mind. Goal cards keep you focused on what you are trying to achieve.

Setting goals is sometimes hard to do. We might struggle with them. It might mean giving up some things that we might feel we aren’t just yet ready to give up. It might mean that we have to step up to the plate more. Whatever it might mean, some people find goal setting as a task at hand. Yet, maybe you don’t know all the good things about goal setting. So, here are a few that are just for you.

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By Anthony D Carter

Goal setting will play a vital part in your success. So it stands to reason that you want to start on a proper foundation. When it is done effectively goal setting involves four practical steps.

List Your Dreams

Write down whatever it is that you want to do. List all of your dreams. Whether it is writing the next great American novel, running a mile in five minutes or falling in love, you need to write it all down. You want keep that list of dreams in front of you so that you can actually look at it and build a plan around each item on that list.

Goals determine your level of success. People who have goals lead more successful lives and achieve more than people who have none. However, for some of us the process of setting goals seem to be too complicated to bother with. That doesn’t have to be the case. When setting goals use this simple process and you will have your goals set in one hour or less.

Step one- Write down your values. You want to write down the things that matter the most to you. We all have our own list of values that we possess. Honesty, integrity, wealth, relationships, etc. Write down all of the ones that are important to you.

Goals provide you with a valuable asset for increased motivation. But if you set them incorrectly they can lead to frustration and overwhelm. Your goals will only help you if you put some forethought into them. Here are 5 components of a good goal setting program.

1-Write Your Goals Down - Your goals become tangible when you write them down. This is a very important step that even moderately successful people neglect to do. When you write your goals down you automatically put yourself into the company of the top ten percent of achievers in the world.

Waiting. Waiting until the perfect time is a big motivation killer. If you continue to wait until the perfect time you will be disappointed because it will never come. Opportunities will continue to pass you by. Eventually you will give up on your dream and goals altogether.

Solution: There is no perfect time in the future to start. The time to start is right now. Get going even if you are not sure what to do. You can adjust along the way. Once you began opportunities will began to become apparent to you.

Not Writing. Goals that are not written tend to get forgotten. In the normal day to day activities our goals get lost. Because we don’t have them written down we don’t see them enough to impress them upon our thoughts. Out of sight out of mind.

Solution: Write your goals down. Something miraculous happens when you do. Writing your goals down makes the whole goal setting process more legitimate. It gives you a set of objectives that you can review on a regular basis. When you can actually see your goals written out you are better able to keep your attention centered on them.