Set your goals

The more goals you write down (short-term goals, long-term goals, retirement goals, financial goals, family goals, spiritual goals, relationship goals) the greater the chance of you achieving any measure of success in any of these areas.

Given that this is such a well documented fact it truly astounds me that people are willing to commit tens of hours a week to watching some scriptwriter's fantasy on television which generally serves no useful purpose and yet they are not willing to commit one hour per year to writing down and reviewing their goals.

People want me to show them great investments all the time and often they expect me to provide the financing and the deposit for them as well, but they won't make the effort to write down what they want to achieve. Saying, "I want more money" or "I want to be rich" isn't enough.

Your perception of what constitutes wealth changes and evolves as you acquire more money. Setting goals enables you to measure your progress, celebrate your successes and set new goals to keep you moving forward.

You have a choice: spend an hour working on the goal setting worksheet which may have a tremendous beneficial effect on your life, or dismiss it as some new-age fuzzy-logic hocus-pocus and choose instead to watch some sitcom which needs canned laughter to remind you when to laugh.

To take control of your future you have to write down what your goals are. Write down your one-year goals, your five-year goals and your ten-year goals using our goal worksheet. When writing your goals follow these guidelines:

• Make your goals specific
• Give each goal a deadline
• Make your goals measurable
• Make sure your goals are achievable