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Now that you have your goals set and your plan in place don’t forget to celebrate each success as you go along, and have the celebration in proportion to the size of the goal. This ensures that you become focused on success and not focussed on failure. Too many people forget all the successes that they have achieved and concentrate only on what they feel went wrong. So celebrate as you move towards your goal and forgive yourself if you veer slightly off course. This is like sailing a boat. Sometimes you may get blown slightly off course but you make adjustments and get back on course.

If you want to be daring you may even want to set yourself rewards and punishments before you start on a particular goal. The reward is the celebration that you will have, maybe a meal, a long hot bubble bath, a night at the movies. Choose something that you wouldn’t usually do and something that you enjoy. For the punishment make sure it’s something that will motivate you. Some people are more motivated by the reward while others are more motivated by fear of loss. Make sure that the punishment is something that you’d miss and you do enjoy.

Do one thing per day that will move you closer to your goals. It doesn’t have to be a big thing but just doing that one thing per day helps you to focus and gives you a sense of real achievement. It may be reading a chapter of a book that improves your skills.

One you have achieved something on your plan and celebrated, then review the rest of the plan to see whether the goal you set yourself was too easy, too hard or just right. As I’ve said before you want goals that challenge you but do not discourage you. If it was too hard you may need some smaller action steps added to the plan.

I look to forward to hearing about your successes with your goals – drop me a comment to let me know how you are getting on.