If you write down your goals on paper instead of just having them in your mind, you are increasingly more likely to achieve them.
Goal setting is not a new concept, but writing goals down is the step that insures your success. The magic of written goal setting is that it enables you to make a plan with deliberation and commitment. The actual act of getting goals on paper, not only sharpens thinking about what you may want to achieve, but it also gives a clear destination point. That sets in motion a series of steps on how to get there.
A recent article I read explains it this way, “One of the common characteristics of highly successful people is that they are intensely goal-oriented. Successful people know where it is that they want to go in life, and they have a clear plan to get there. Their “roadmap to success” is the list of goals that they have written down.”
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Top-level athletes, business-people and achievers in all fields use written goal setting. There is not a more glaring example of this than Tony Robbins, the motivational guru. Here is a guy that barely graduated from high school and yet he has catapulted himself to international success due his late night infomercials, his motivational audiotapes (with 30 million sold), and his international bestselling books.
He completely changed his life by simply getting clear about what he wanted, writing it down, and then putting it into action. Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, and governments, alike, now hire Mr. Robbins. Moreover, he owns 9 companies, runs numerous charitable foundations, has written 6 best selling books and was recently honored as one of the ten “Outstanding People of the World”.