Despite what you hear about recession and a lagging economy. Highly Successful People continue to be successful. Why, because they continue to move forward and set goals for themselves.

They remain positive, confident and dedicated to achieving success despite the events that occur around them. They don’t allow outside forces to stop them. They take action and look for new and different ways to continue to be successful. Successful people stay positive, have a vision, have hope, believe in themselves and continue to move forward.

A common characteristic of highly successful people is that they are intensely goal-oriented. Successful people know where they want to go in life, and they have a roadmap to get there. There “roadmap to success” is a set of written goals.Written Goals are very powerful. They document your vision. They are well defined statement of what you WILL DO — NOT what you MIGHT do.

Goal setting is not a new concept. It’s been around for a long time. Yet, it’s amazing that less than 3% of our population has a set of written goals and less than 1% reviews their goals on a regular basis. Are you ready to join the 3% who are achieving success? It’s never too late to start. In order for you to be successful three things must be present:

1. You must want to start and be ready to take action. Not “I should or maybe want to start taking action”.

2. You must be able to identify where you are now, where you want to be and clearly state the results you are looking for.

3. You must believe in the process and in your ability to achieve the end results you are looking for.

4. Your goals must be sensible and stretching (challenging), measurable, achievable, realistic, and time based. We call these SMART GOALS.

5. Your Goals must have a set of clearly defined strategies and action steps to achieve your goals.

6. You must be willing to be accountable to yourself and/or a Coaching Professional to stay in constant action to achieve your goals.

If you still need more information to support the fact that written goals lead to success. Consider the reasons below. If they make sense get going, if not your life will stay as it is now and pass you by. So if its success you are looking for, the “secret” is quite simple. Read on….

Four proven reasons to have written goals for your life:

1. Written goals increase your odds of success. Writen goals serve as roadmaps, blueprints and plans for success. the blueprint, the flight plan and the script are

2. Written goals increase your motivation to achieve them. By knowing the results you want to achieve and your specific outcome, you can measure your progress toward achieving your goals. As you notice your successful progress, you are inspired to continue the actions that brought you this success. In addition, by celebrating each success, you are highly motivated to stack on “your goals success track” - no slacking here. Celebration is key! It acts a driving force pushing you closer to achieving your goals. Celebration makes you feel good and when you feel good you want to achieve more. Celebration is uplifting and empowering. You deserve to be rewarded for your success and you deserve to reach your goals. It has a psychological impact on your progress.

3. Written goals build self-confidence. As you take action, move forward, experience success and celebrate your self confidence increases tremendously! You start to believe in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. Your confidence levels soar. Subsequently, your performance will improve, you will feel empowered, and you will become more secure in all you do. You will automatically continue to take action to reach your goals since you are forming new habits and new ways of thinking. These new habits are qualities of a “highly successful person”. Positive Transformation is taking place here. Every client I coach experiences an increase of self confidence. This moves them even faster to achieving their goals. Plus they are happy. Feeling unstoppable and on top of the world. You can’t beat that feeling! Self Confidence is a very powerful feeling and key to achieving your goals.

4. Written goals provide clarity of purpose. With written goals, strategies and an action plan to support your goals, you know exactly what you need to do to achieve the results you are looking for. It’s crystal clear. You have clarity and you become more focused and efficient. You avoid wasting time, money and effort.

5. Written goals move you steadily toward your goal. Creating written goals provides you with a magnetic effect. Like the magnet, your written plan pulls you toward achieving your goals. There is no stopping you now! Goal setting is a very powerful technique. It creates positive results in every area of your life. If you have written goals, review them today. Get started. Take action! If you need help contact me. I have a powerful and proven goal setting process to share with you.

“People with goals succeed because they know where they are going” They have clarity, vision and focus.” Earl Nightingale

Carol Giannantonio has helped individuals positively transform their lives and careers through her unique coaching and goals setting process. Carol’s knowledge of and passion for coaching combined with her compassion and wisdom provide her clients with an enriching coaching experience. Her clients quickly see an improvement in their performance, experience positive changes in their overall quality of life and learn new and improved ways of thinking that allow them to reach their full potential. Carol is a Life and Executive Coach who specializes in helping people clarify what’s really important to them and supports them in having a life they want and love. Her guiding principle is, “Go The Distance to Reach Your Dreams. Please visit her Web site http://www.carolgcoach.com and sign up for a free consultation, her newsletter, daily quotes and much more. Contact her at carolgcoach@aol.com for a truly unique coaching experience.