Goals and success go hand in hand. If you want to be successful, you need to have dreams and aspirations that motivate you to be the best you can be. You need to be able to see the big picture of where you want to go with your life and a vision and strategy to achieve your aspirations. Goals help you keep track of how you are doing and essentially make life a game. The more goals you can cross off, the more you will win in life.
People who set goals have an idea of where they are going and what they want in life. Goal setters have been proven to be much more successful than people who don't set any. Many people don't set goals because they don't feel confident that they will be able to achieve them. Somewhere in their brain they have a message implanted that say's, “I never see myself achieving that.” It is this little saying that is preventing them from becoming as successful as they'd like. In order to be successful, you need to first believe in yourself. Build your confidence by setting smaller short term goals that you will accomplish in the near future. Crossing off these goals will help boost your self esteem and confidence. Continue making new goals and make them even bigger. You need to set goals that are a challenge, yet attainable. On the other hand, they can't be too easy or you will not get to where you want to be.
I've found that actually writing down your goals will increase the chance of accomplishing them. Too often goals are just an idea in your head. Without actually writing the goals down and visualizing them, it is hard to make the goals a reality. I'd recommend finding a new notebook just for your goals. Come up with ten to fifteen goals. Set short term, medium, and long term goals for yourself. After setting your goals, you'll want to review them frequently. You might even want to print your goals and inspirational quotes out on computer paper and tape them up around your house. Put one on your bathroom mirror so that you read your biggest goal at the start of each day.
I hope these goal setting tips will serve to help you become an even more successful person than you already are. Believe in yourself, set goals, and good things will happen. Best of luck.
Pete  – Think Entrepreneurship Founder
