“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Did you choose 5 marvelous goals for 2009?  Great!  Take a minute and review them against these questions.

  1. Are these goals really exciting?  If they aren’t then change them until they are.
  2. Are these goals spread across all the areas of your life?  Make sure that they are not all focusing on just one or two topics.  Balance!
  3. Are these goals big enough to excite you when you think about them actually being completed?
  4. Are these goals small enough, or realistic enough, that you can believe that is truly possible to accomplish them before the end of the coming year?  If you don’t believe it, you won’t achieve it.

There are many other great questions that can be used to fine tune goals.  Those four are enough for this entry.  Here is the last thing I will ask you to do today with your five goals: write each one of them, individually, on the front of a three by five index card.  Then keep these five cards with you all of the time.  We will cover shortly why this matters and what you will do with the cards to actually ensure that you achieve the goals that are written on them.

Till next time…Jack

“My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.” ~Elaine Maxwell