STEPS TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

1.      Get specific... Knowing exactly what you want to achieve helps you motivated until you get there.

2.      Seize the moment to act on your goals... Achieving your goal means grabbing hold of these opportunities before they slip through your fingers.

3.      Know exactly how far you have left to go... Achieving any goal also requires honest and regular monitoring of your progress, if not by others, then by you yourself.

4.      Be a realistic optimist... Believing in your ability to succeed is enormously helpful for creating and sustaining your motivation.

5.      Focus on getting better, rather than being good... Believing you have the ability to reach your goals is important, but so is believing you can get the ability.

6.      Have grits... Grit is a willingness to commit to long-term goals and to persist in the face of difficulty.

7.      Build your willpower muscle... When you give your muscle regular workouts by putting it to good use, it will grow stronger and stronger, and better able to help you successfully reach your goals.

8.      Don’t tempt fate... Don’t try to take two challenging tasks at once, if you can help it.

9.      Focus on what you will do, not who you won’t do... If you want change your ways ask yourself, what will I do instead?