A powerful tool to help personal development is goal setting.  Even more important is to write these goals down.  Until now, I have skipped over that part.  I do have goals, but they were just in my head.  I hadn’t written them down and for me that was a step I shouldn’t have passed over.  Once the goals are written, then they really exist.  I can’t ignore the fact that I made those goals.  I physically wrote them out and look at them often (they are posted by my computer).  I have a lot more accountability now and that is something that is really helping me move forward in the right direction. 

 

Something that is so important when writing goals is to make sure that they are attainable for you during the time frame you set (short term and long term).  If you set a truly unattainable goal, then you may feel like a failure when you don’t meet it.  It doesn’t mean that goal isn’t one you could meet later on, but maybe just not at this time.

 

I have a sense of accomplishment that I have written out my goals and have posted them so I can read them every day.  I know that the hard work hasn’t been done yet, but I am certainly motivated to get it done!