Setting goals, and reaching them.

I've recently gone through Zig Ziglar's, How to Get What You Want.  Zig of course speaks to one of the primary keys to reaching your goals is to first to set your goals.  If you have no destination to journey towards, you'll arrive nowhere very quickly.

Once you have a goal, you focus on it and set measurements.  Make them goals you can reach and work a plan to get there, one step at a time.  You have to avoid putting it off.  Procrastination will take you places you don't want to go every time you engage in it.  It will give you results you do not want, every time you procrastinate.

Inside your goals, create smaller, measurable segments that you can use to see that you're making positive progress on your overall goal.  With this you can use that to fuel your drive to get further towards reaching your goal because there is progress.  Without the ability to see that you're getting traction, it's easy to get lost in emotions that won't help you reach your goals.

Striving towards your goal is a conscious process, something you must engage in every single day.  Even if today you say that it isn't your day to work on that goal.  Every day you must put a conscious effort towards that goal.  This keeps the goal in the forethought of your mind, so it's never lost, but is ever present, until you reach it and set your next goal.

The more times you set a goal before you and then reach it, the more often you will find that setting and achieving the next goal is easier than you thought it would be.