Episode 18- We've spent some time looking at goals. No, not football goals - life goals! We've gathered together 5 KEY actions for setting effective goals, plus ONE missing thing that most of the resource doesn't tell you. It's not a secret; it's in the title!

 Some of the stuff in there is:

• The resource out there on setting goals
• 5 steps that many people agree on when setting successful goals
• 1) Visualising your goal - invoke all of your senses
• The brain's link between sounds, smells and memory
• 2) Writing your goal down - using the S.M.A.R.T. acronym
• Be Specific about what the goal is
• Define how you would Measure whether you've achieved the goal
• Use 'Action' language - Do, Become, Develop
• Realistic - either take this literally and make the goals realistic or take the 'Big Hairy Audacious' approach and set really stretching goals. You decide!
• Set a Time limit to when you want to achieve the goal by
• 3) Sharing your goal
• Two schools of thought on this, make them public or keep them private. Here are two perspectives:
• Fact Company say make it public 
• Derek Sivers says keep them private
• 4) Break it down
• Be sure to split bigger goals into smaller steps
• Be clear on the NEXT step
• Make it something you can do within 24 hours
• 5) Plan
• Set yourself dates in the diary to review your progress AND to celebrate your success
• The one thing missing from most of the advice - WHY
• Why WHY?
• Never underestimate the power of stating the obvious
• 30 million people have given up smoking this way
• 5 whys, according to iSixSigma
• 5 whys, according to Toyota
• A version delivered from our kitchen table
• How can you make reviewing progress more satisfying
• Use a good planner to manage your progress - this is nice Action Day Academic Diary 17/18
• The importance of being flexible - your goals don't have to be set in stone
• In fact, if you set the wrong ones and you've changed them, then the process works!