Whether you utilize a paper planner or a hand-held microcomputer, you are able to enter your goals, and schedule every day and weekly actions that affirm their achievement. The discipline of the every day recap is a powerful goal achievement tool. Merely tracking your goals every day isn’t adequate. If you’re unhappy with your forward motion, you have to evaluate what is keeping you from achieving the goals. Ask yourself questions like, “Is this goal truly crucial?”

Are there particular obstacles you are going through which are interfering with your power to achieve the goal?” If you are not making progress on a specific goal, try to do a cause analysis to decide why. Only by truthfully examining your lack of progress may you determine steps to take to change this picture.

Even the achievement of a minor goal is cause for festivity. Don’t depress yourself with thoughts about all you still have to accomplish. Celebrate what you’ve accomplished. Then advance to the next milestone.

Periodically look at the goals you’ve set for this year. Are the goals still the correct goals? Provide yourself permission to alter your goals and resolutions based on changing conditions.

 Don’t spend a whole year failing to accomplish a specific goal. Your time is better spent on accomplishment than on beating yourself up for lack of forward motion. Perhaps you made the goal too huge; perhaps you set too many goals. Do a truthful appraisal; change what has to change periodically, and march on.