My goal was 60, I only did 51. Did I fail?

No. A failure would have been writing 0 articles. lol

At least you are doing SOMETHING. You'll get there when you get there. It took me about 2 years of this stuff before I could do it full time. til then, just keep working on it in your spare time. Me, I happen to have a lot of spare time. hahaha my wife is always working.. man its so boring here sometimes..

BUT I just bought a new ps3 and MW3 on black friday, so that is guaranteed to cure some of the boredom.

well you did a great job i won't consider it failure at all

You are doing a lot of writing in my opinion.

Well you failed in writing 60 articles. But succeeded in writing 51. Something to feel proud about.

I would say it's better to set a hard to reach goal and just come shy, then to set an easy to reach goal and succeed every time.

This is something I've always done with myself. I make a goal that I think will be difficult and slightly out of reach and do my absolute best to reach it. Sometimes I get there and I reward myself (buy something I've wanted, go somewhere for the weekend, etc). Most of the time however I come close but don't make it all the way. I don't consider this a failure though. At the very minimum, I've still moved my business forward and that's never a failure.

you achieved 85% of your goal. how you feel about it is something we cannot tell you

was the goal too ambitious? were there distractions that could be eliminated to improve performance?

are you willing to let go of the last 15% and be okay with it, and start fresh with a new goal tomorrow?

are you willing to go through the same process - evaluate, replan, closure - every goal period?

if so...then you have tremendous momentum, and have achieved much to be proud of.

calling it 'success' or 'failure' is not only premature, it's unnecessary.

goal-setting is like a game: decide on a target, shoot for it, learn from the process, repeat

it's only failure if you give up!

Thanks guys.

Now, you can consider some aspects:

Did you waste too much time on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, WF or any other website?
Do you have lots of distractions around your working space?
Do you have to work a full time job and can only write during your "free" time?

I don't know your answers but I would feel proud of myself if I were you.

No you didn't fail.
Although, I bet there were days were you only wrote 3 articles when you
could have written 4-5 because the creative juices were flowing.

Here is something it took me a while to figure out. When you are on a
roll and things are falling into place better than expected then keep going.

Strive to exceed your daily goals and forget that you did it. By the end of
the month you will have blown your monthly goal out of the water.

Never do just enough to get by because you never know when something
will interfere with your mission. For example, You could get sick for a few
days and do nothing or someone you love may need your help. By always
trying to do more than it requires to meet your goals, you'll find that
instead of just missing your goals you normally meet or exceed them setting
you even closer to the end result and your long term goals.

Have a Great Day!
Michael
PS, Great Job following through on your goal even if you did come up
a little short. As said above, At least you did something.

Doing anything after a full day of work is not only successful - it's just nuts.........and ya just gotta love anyone with that kind of drive. Keep it up and pretty soon you might be able to stop the day job and then you will need to set a new goal. Awwwe.

Working a full time job and then putting in more hours to build a business is hardly what I'd call failure. We are humans, not robots. There are limits to our capabilities.

Keep up the good work!