That is why effective time management would really be necessary so people would easily and effectively meet targets and beat deadlines with greater ease. But it is to be noted that efficient and effective time management would have to entail a greater skill, that is, effective goal setting. Goal setting and time management Goal setting and time management are two different concepts, but they are practically inter-related and inter-twined. Or perhaps the problem is outside the personal milieu. Maybe you're having trouble in assessing the growth of your company. Or even worse, you don't where is the company heeding. If this is happening to you, the only reason for this is that you haven't come up with a business goal setting program. Maybe you're a top executive for a big company and you're having trouble projecting yourself with others, and not in good terms with your colleagues. This is why appropriate and proper fitness goal setting programs should be done. The fitness program should be carefully planned and a timetable, with goals and targets, should be put up. Before you begin any fitness goal setting program, remember to assess and think over what it is you really like to achieve after a certain period of time. Overall, motivation should, at the same time with goals, get athletes going with greater and more significant focus. Otherwise, measures and actions should be done, or goals reset, to help the athlete attain the much needed concentration. Motivation fuels goal setting and strategies. Focus make up the steering wheel in the long and winding drive to the attainment of the ambitious and noble goal. Instead of writing down "Own a car in two years", you will find that writing "Buy a Silver Ford Escape by September 2008" is more helpful. Douse that inner critic at this stage. Just go on and write your goals down. 2. Verbalize your plan. The more you talk about your plan, the greater self motivation you will get. And if it is the first step of thinking, usually the "warm-up" period that is committed into writing, then the problem is in the making. This is so because goals can be easily lost in myriad of letters in written form. There are even instances that if someone is tired, simply looking at several pages of paper can be a stressful exercise.