Jesse Owens says, “We all have dreams, but in order to make these dreams into reality it takes an awful lot of determination, self-discipline and effort.”

It requires the same determination, self-discipline and effort to keep New Year’s Resolutions and to follow through on goals as it does to be successful.

Let’s understand the meaning of each of these words:

Determination
The power and habit of firm decision making directed toward a particular goal and end result

Discipline
A commitment to yourself to do what you have to do even when you don’t want to do it

Effort
Amount of total work completed to reach a particular end result

Success
Achieving worthwhile goals

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Goal setting is the foundation to self motivation and is applicable at all times.

However, goal setting for uncertain times requires one to be even more realistic and determined.

Goal setting is all about identifying the dreams that you want to turn into reality. It starts with writing them out.

This is the first step to crystallizing your dreams. Then the dreams should be grouped or categorized and set in priority.

Once your top priority dreams have been identified you then need to determine if you are willing to pay the price to make them a reality.

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Dreams will remain dreams until they are released from the inside out, in writing.

Then, and only then can we move on towards setting goals.

Goal Setting is not just the setting of a goal, but following the steps in the formula towards setting goals.

If you have already written all of your life dreams of what you want to be, do or have, congratulate yourself.

That is a major accomplishment towards setting goals.

The next step towards setting goals is to reduce your list of life dreams to the most important dreams that you would like to realize.

To do that, pretend you were just told that you had six months to live.

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Goal setting has been an important part of my life, but most people do not realize that there is a goal setting formula.

Ever since I was exposed to goal setting, at age eighteen, I have pursued goals and have realized most of them, if not all of them.

Goal setting has helped me accomplish what I have, what I am doing, and has allowed me to live the life of my dreams, and beyond.

Goal setting has kept me focused, helped me better manage my time and has kept me motivated, even when I was down.

It was through goal setting, that I now realize that I was the author of my future.

I became what I have wanted to become, which at one time was only a dream – impossible at that.

Before goal setting comes something even more strategic, and that is getting inside of the most important person in the world and bringing out all those internal dreams and desires.

The goal setting formula is simple, it just requires you to dedicate a time period, up to 24 hours, to the most important person in the world.

Before goal setting, comes dreams.

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