A key to success in life is the process of setting goals. Doing so daily can and most often does insure your utmost achievement. It all depends on what you want to accomplish. 

You must list your goals deciding what matters most. That can be accomplished by understanding what your true purpose might be. If you have not clearly defined that, you must first establish that and then proceed further. 

Set your priorities and develop a daily action listing. You must do it now and avoid procrastination which is suicide to goal achievement. Next, see that you are flexible and continuously review priorities or special needs that arise. There is nothing wrong with altering plans to better navigate the current demands or future trends. The ultimate outcome is to achieve success to some degree. Never allow fear to keep you from making changes that are necessary to enable you to reach your ultimate goal. Do what is best for the outcome you desire. 

Interruptions are common in any undertaking. They can come quite frequently and often without merit. You have to learn to say “no”  to any distractions that quite frankly are not related to the task at hand and can detour your focus if allowed to thrive. Staying attentive to the “true” goal should be your guiding light toward all activity. 

It is important to also maintain your efforts versus stopping and starting your goal-setting process. Once engaged, remain with the work until you have completed your task. Even if it means coming back and making additions or deletions another day, it is better to finish the initial plans. Your best mental efforts normally come in time segments. Stopping and starting can bring about complacency as well as procrastination in completing your efforts and plans. If you are in the “zone” continue that effort until you reach viable outcomes. 

Whatever that goal or goals may be, be sure to WRITE THEM DOWN! There is something very different about this effort that impacts your “mind's eye”. It becomes a valid ownership effort.  Then, you must visualize in your mind as if you have already achieved the goal or goals. See yourself with the goal or goals intact and perhaps celebrating or enjoying the benefits of achievement. Focus on this achievement daily. As the old saying proclaims, “What the mind can perceive you can achieve.” 

Goal setting, to be fully successful, must become a habit. Habits can be attained by doing things regularly for 30 days at most. At that time, it becomes a norm in the same manner you would start your vehicle in the morning and turn on the radio. You do it instinctively. Soon, you will begin to see the results of well-placed action for your efforts. While you may not achieve every goal you set; rest assured, you will achieve more with regular goal setting than you ever will with simply hoping things work out. As was once said, “Before you can score, you must first have a goal.”