Achieving Your Dreams: A More Sensible Approach.

[mrodock]

We all know that it is important to set goals. Sometimes this is all the instruction we get on the topic. A lot of you may have heard of the study that was done on the Yale 1953 graduating class in which 3% wrote their goals out and 20 years later they had amassed more wealth than the other 97%. This is pretty compelling stuff, but what if we not only wrote our goals down, but looked at them daily, that is, made ourselves accountable to them on a daily basis.

One of the most intriguing things I have read about goals in recent years is the importance of not only setting long-term goals, but also short-term immediate goals that you can make progress on immediately. The following quotes serve to illustrate the rationale:

“Short term goals, such as I want to accomplish 20 push-ups right now will keep us focused and motivated far more than far off idealistic resolutions like I want to win the Olympic Games in 6 years. If we look at the top of the mountain to the distant goal we fail everyday to reach it until we finally do. But if our goal is this next small step in the right direction we succeed again and again and again everyday” (Dan Millman).

“If you are willing to go step-by-step you can reach any goal, no matter how far off it seems by focusing on immediate reachable goals. By defining each small step in the right direction as success you can experience a string of small successes that will keep you moving, motivated, and on track” (Dan Millman).

With that, I invite you to not only write down your long-term and short-term goals, but write down your golf goals here if you are so inclined.

Matt