In this way, you will easily access every angle of your goal, whenever there is a need to review any of its components. Since the very purpose of goal setting is to be achievable, your goals should be challenging enough to stimulate you but realistic enough so as not to discourage you in the end. For instance, you want to set a goal for your personal growth, as a person and as a professional. That would make the written financial goals easily read, thus, they would serve as constant reminder of the financial aspects you aim to achieve in the short or long run. Break down the goals into short-term goals and long-term goals. Short term goals can be achieved and attained overnight, over a short span of time or even within hours. By doing so, bear in mind always your goals and arrange your schedule in a way that the achievement of these goals would be attained. Determine the things or activities that need to be done or carried out in order to attain priorities and goals. By doing so, you would inevitably consider and think about the time frame needed to perform the tasks. You might already have thought of a goal at the beginning of your career and have a vivid vision of where you're headed exactly. Or, perhaps, you re already in the middle of your career, and you feel that you seem not to be going anywhere, or you re always in doubt if you have chosen the right career. Come up with a goal that is doable and result oriented. Remember the businesses right across your office and the one at your back? They have folded just a few years ago, with their officials facing imprisonment for fraud. A hundred theories have been presented trying to explain why such situations happened, but, hey, if you base everything on rhetoric, then you really wouldn't get anywhere. When people around you are sometimes confused of what you're up to, what makes you think that what you really want is clear to you, even without a clear goal. Your whole being, all of your senses, should be one in achieving your goal. 2. Be positive. Goals, right from the start, should be positive. It's common to see "tips" in almost everything to be set in two folds: the do's, and the don'ts.