Smart People write goals to achieve them, Do you?

People with Clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine !! – Brian Tracy

In 1973, the 1953 graduating class from Yale met at a reunion. There were researchers who asked the graduating class – “How many of the former students had achieved written life goals. Five per cent said they had.

The researchers then had each person complete a financial asset work sheet. The results are as follows:

• 70% of the class had never set goals.

• 25% had New Years resolution–type goals or goals they could articulate but were not written down.

• Only 5% had written goals.

The five per cent of the class that had written goals controlled ninety-six per cent of the group’s net worth.

That means:

• 5% People had 96% of Net worth of the whole group.

• 95% People had 4% of Net worth of the whole group.

Hmmm, do you think that’s just an example and does not hold true everywhere. Lets look at some eye opening facts regarding the Richest people in the world. I am sure you would agree these people are Smart.

• 50 million richest people of the world achieve as much as 2.7 billion poor people of the world.” (Milanovic 2002, p.50)

• The wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined is more than 567 million poorest people in the world.

Do you think that these rich people have achieved so much just by luck ?? Of course, they work hard and strive their best to achieve what they have.

But there is one important thing which is common in all the greatest achievers of the world.

“THEY WRITE THEIR GOALS”

That is why, they are called Smart. Generally, Ninety-seven per cent of the people do not write Goals. They do not have a clear, written aim of where they’d like to be in six months, five years or ten years. You must be wondering Why is it so?

This is so because most of the people are either unaware that they can achieve a lot in life by writing their Goals. Some are lazy enough not to do it.

The point is – Why does it happen that if we write our Goals, we are able to achieve far more than those who do not write their goals.

Here is your answer – On an average, a human mind goes through 60,000 thoughts in a day. It becomes difficult for us to Focus on one particular thing/task during the day. If we write our Goals, then our mind becomes focused on the thought of achieving the goals that we have written. And since we are more focused on our Goal, we tend to work towards achieving our Goals.

I urge you to take a Diary which you can maintain, and write your Goals right now about whatever you want to achieve in Life. It can be financial, personal, academic, any thing that you wanna achieve.

Written your Goals? What Next?

It is not so that you write your goals today and then just forget about them. Once you have written your Goal, you need to give 5-10 minutes daily by going through your Goal in the morning as well as in the eveniing.

Reading your Goal in the morning: Helps you remain focused on the Goal throughout the day.

Reading your Goal at Night before you Go to Sleep: Helps you introspect and analyze the progress you are making towards your goal.

Still reading the article? Have you written your Goal? Come back after writing your Goal and share with us in the comment that you have written it. Also, if you would like to share your Goal with us or need any help on achieving it, I am there to help.

Do you know someone personally who did write their goals and achieved them?? Or Did you achieve yours by doing the same? Share the success story with us.