The 7 Top Tips to Set and Achieve Your Goals

Writing things down on paper makes them tangible, but it also activates key centers of your mind that are linked to learning and both conscious and unconscious thought formation. That means you’re more likely to remember the things you write down and commit them to yourself.

Write down your goals, your plan to achieve them, and the benefits of those goals, then hang them somewhere you’ll see them in your daily life or keep them on your person. That way you’ll have an easy-to-turn-to resource for days your willpower is struggling.

Preparation is the bane of the unexpected. If you take the time to account for potential difficulties along your way to achieve your set goals, you save yourself hours of panic and brainstorming to solve in the moment. Even if the issue isn’t something you’ve explicitly planned for, like suddenly not being able to go to the gym, you’ll already have alternative options to base your next move off of.

Today is the tomorrow you were so afraid of yesterday, and you are still here. Setting personal goals and achieving them is a difficult process, but some days will always be more difficult than others. Just remember that if you don’t feel or see the results you’re looking for right away, you’re on the right path if you’re making an effort every day.

Remind yourself to be kind to yourself, as dwelling on mistakes can be infinitely more damaging to your goals than the mistakes themselves. Failure is essential to success, but it means you have to pick yourself up and keep going!