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Thanks for this! I actually needed this reminder...since I've been doing my usual and procrastinating...

Very interesting!
A written gaol is like a sail mounted on a ship. It enables the ship take advantage of the wind, rather than the wind taking advantage over the ship. It is the steering wheel of time management, keeping the ship on track amid winds of distraction. It could spell the difference between success of failure.

It is a tool no good business manager may do with out.

It's interesting because I'm a coach and an NLP Practitioner and the two disciplines have quite different approaches to written goals. Many in the NLP field prefer a very detailed statement of long term goals that you work towards. They prefer not to use short term - finding them limiting or stifling. Coaching has quite a different approach and encourages short, medium and long term goal setting - all written down.

I always believe that no one size fits all and that it's best to find what works for you. Plenty of people don't write goals - they write wishes. And written down or not if you don't take action, don't review and evaluate and take more action goals have little value.

Thanks for the post Steve.

Bounded rationality concept reinforces the requirments for written goals as effective cognitive optimization in decision-making leading to learning..Goals in writting have known stimuli effects on preceptions of reality,behavior and self-efficacy by influencing the intrinsic motivational process that inspires beliefs and accomplishments.. Some literal psychology for the needed written goals. charles

I always write my goals down, I don't always get to all of them but by getting them down I tend to get A LOT more work down. There is nothing worse than not having goals in place (in a written way) as you will feel scattered. Do not try to pull your daily, weekly and long term goals from your memory!

Excellent post!

I forget to write down my goals. It is no wonder I go off track! Thank you for the reminder and nice blog.

I like the idea to rewrite you big goals they are always in my head but I agree I think I should continue to write them down.

Thank you
Kymee

This is awesome Crom. Tweeting it now and I will be coming back and re-reading this to remind myself to continue to write my goals down and push forward. That is one of my biggest issues is getting of track of even a small goal.

Thankyou very much bro for the encouragement Cheers