Setting goals is not just for New Year's Eve. Setting goals, continuously reviewing your goals and making sure your actions are bringing you closer to those goals is what makes a goal become reality.

This includes both personal goals and work goals and everything in between.

The key is to decide what you want. And when it comes right down to it, a goal is really just that -- a decision.

Decisions, Decisions

Goals come in all shapes and sizes; big and small, long-term and short-term, simple and complex, etc.

Something as simple as waking up and deciding to go to the store that day is a goal. That probably didn't take a lot of planning. But you did have to write down what you needed to get. And organize your day to make sure you could fit that task into your likely already busy schedule. If you have food in your refrigerator, you can take pride in knowing you achieved your goal.

Taking a vacation is a goal. That takes a little more planning. But once you decide you want to take one, all you need to do is determine where you want to go, what you'd like to do and then make the time to do it.

Goals are not wishes. They are decisions. And once you decide to do something, it's amazing how often those 'decisions' come true.

Financial decisions are no different.

3 Steps to Investment Success

Excerpt from:
Planning for Success: Achieving Your Financial Goals