To maximise your goal you need to write it down and leave it somewhere visible that you can see everyday as a reminder.
How often do you set a goal write it down YET don't have a time frame to go with it?
Many times we never accomplish a goal as we never are really focused on it as we have no deadline to meet. For example if you want to run a 5km fun run at your personal best then you should look for the date of one in your area and train and focus your goal around the date the race is run.
If your goal is to lose 10kg have you written this down and then put a date as to when you want to reach it? The other thing to consider is that the goal date is realistic. So don't set yourself a goal to lose 10kg in 2 weeks, unless you are either on the Biggest Looser OR you want to set yourself up for failure.
Another important thing to help goal setting is to be positive about it, don't allow for self doubt to creep in as it will put your goals back a little.
Sometimes it is a good idea to have something as a reward once you get to a goal, for example when I lost 40 kg in weight I originally freaked out as I thought how will I ever do this (which is that self doubt coming in). To help overcome and to make it a positive I broke the 40kg down to smaller stages. So I would make my goal to lose 5 kg in a month. Sometimes I reached my target and then some months I didn't BUT when I didn't I looked at what I had done and even though I hadn't lost my goal I had lost and I talked that as a positive. As a extra reward each time I would lose 5kg I would treat myself with something (non food). So it may be a body cream or nail polish just something small, so this was my short term reward. I even set myself middle range reward which were to have a cut/colour which is something I don't do often (being a hairdresser I do my own colours usually). Then I had the long term goal which was to take a holiday trip to Melbourne and shop with my Mum and Sister (however this changed to joining a gym).
The main thing is to realise that goal setting is so important as without goals we just float through lives and look back and think of the things we wanted to do but haven't done yet. Having a visual makes them real and more than a thought.
So now go and draw, print a picture or write down you plan and work out the time frame in which you want to achieve it by, then place it somewhere you can see it each day!
