3 Reasons To Write Your Goals Down

All the experts agree that writing your goals down dramatically increases your chance of achieving them.  Over the past few years I have put this to the test, written down my goals in a S.M.A.R.T format and guess what?  It works!

Committing your goals to paper/computer/tablet does the following three things:

1. Clarifies your goal.

Your goal is your destination.  It is what you want to reach and writing it down helps you to clarify exactly what it is that you want to achieve.

Whenever you jump into your car you always have a destination in mind.  Knowing the destination is the starting point of any journey. Writing down your goals acts like a GPS keeping you on track and enables you to plan how to reach your destination.

2. Motivate you into action.

Once you are clear about your goal (or destination) you start to get excited.  You can imagine what it’s going to look like, how it will feel, what it will mean to you to reach your goal.  All of these things motivate you into forming a plan and taking action.

3.  Encourages you to persevere.

Every time you look at your goal and read it your resolve to achieve it will get stronger.  It becomes more real and somehow deep down, you begin to believe that you CAN achieve it

Writing down your goal is not a magic formula that guarantees achievement however it is a great “beginning” to a journey that promises growth, achievement and whole lot of personal satisfaction.  Give it a go and be prepared to be pleasantly suprised by what happens!