Write down your goals!!

I was listening to a youtube video and heard the following.

There was a study done in which business school students were asked if they had written down their goals in life by the time they graduated. Only 3% said they had actually written down what they wanted out of life.

Well they followed up on these students later (10 years I think?) and discovered that those 3% were making far more than the rest.

Now obviously there are likely to be other factors than just writing it down. For example, those who wrote it down could have already been more serious about their goals in the first place. Still, it seems to me there is something to this. When we write down our goals and what we want out of life, it makes us more focused on exactly where we are going. And the more focused we are the better chances of succeeding.

I have been doing a ton of journal writing lately and yes I've written down goals - general goals and specific goals. I think it has really helped. It's like I'm placing an order to the universe.

But also, when you force yourself to pick up a pen and write those goals out, it really gets you to be specific and you end up asking questions of yourself that you might not have thought of if you didn't write it down. For example, let's say you want to make a million dollars. Well one question that comes up is how soon? And another question that comes up is, do you really believe it's possible? Another question is, why just one million dollars, why not state that you want two million? What about ten million? And then you ask, do you really believe ten million is possible. These questions can go on and on, but you have to stop somewhere. Well, where do you stop? If you write down ten million dollars in ten years, you might ask yourself if it's too high or too low of a limit.

If you take it seriously enough, what ends up happening is you really get in touch with EXACTLY your belief system and where your limitations really are. Maybe you find out that you actually don't believe in yourself much at all. Or maybe you find out that you really do believe that so much is possible in life. This is the power of writing it down!

Write down what you want, write down what you hope for, what you dream for, what you think is possible. Dare to dream big too, because if you can't even dream big, how will you ever make it a reality?