10 Ways to Reach Your Goals

Success is achieved not through accident but through proper planning and execution based on the following rules of the game:

1. Write down two or three ways you can immediately start moving toward your goal. Select one of them and immediately work on it.

2. Imagine what life will be like in five years if you don't begin moving toward your goal.

3. Make sure your goals are measurable (SMART Goal). Having a definite target to shoot at gives you a much better chance of hitting it and encourages you to begin movement toward the goal.

4. Break your goals into manageable steps. Seeing a defined path to your goals encourages you to begin your most important journey.

5. Publicly announce your goals (use Facebook to tell your friends about your goals). Knowing that others are expecting you to hit your goals puts more pressure on you to begin.

6. Enlist a friend to be your goal buddy (almost like your golf buddy). Help and encourage each other to move when either of you becomes stuck.

7. Visualize where you are headed with vivid detail. How exactly would it feel to achieve an important goal? How would it look? How would it taste?

8. Post a picture of an important goal in a visible place along with a date for achievement. Maybe a picture of a dreamed-about vacation destination, or a picture of that first new home.

9. Set your goals higher than normal for maximum motivation. Does becoming the number one in your company motivate you more than becoming number three?

10. Focus only on the next step on your climb up success mountain. After your break your mountain expedition into little pieces, as you climb, focus on the next piece of your journey.