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7 Reasons You Should Always Write Down Your Goals
7 Reasons You Should Always Write Down Your Goals
Dennis M. Postema
August 6, 2024
Write down your goals to unlock your full potential.
Dreams are part of life; whether big or small. Some dreams can be subtle while others can consume us completely. Unfortunately, too often people mistake wishing for their goals with actively pursuing them -leading them to seem impossible at times. There is still hope; you can turn even your wildest goals and dreams into realities with just one reminder: you.
Write Down Your Goals **
Though you might think “My dreams won’t come true just by writing them down”, but to some degree they might. Success doesn’t happen overnight and writing down goals can be an invaluable aid towards reaching them.
Science supports this claim: while writing down your goals won’t guarantee immediate success, they can create conditions for steady and gradual achievement of them. Take action now by writing them down – for seven reasons alone!
1. Increase Your Motivation
Holding yourself accountable by writing down your goals can boost motivation. Writing them down acts like issuing orders; your subconscious mind then encourages action towards reaching those goals. Writing will act like an inner drill sergeant who motivates towards meeting them!
2. Enhancing Your Recall
Writing down your goals makes them much easier to remember, increasing the odds of their accomplishment. This phenomenon known as the “generation effect” can help your mind form new connections more readily between written goals you create and their actual realization.
3. Concentrate Your Efforts
Imagine using a magnifying lens. By focusing light directly through it, its power becomes so intense it could burn. Unwritten goals often become dispersed among other thoughts; by writing them down and keeping track of progress towards them, your effort and intention can become more focused, thus increasing your odds of succeeding.
4. Turn Your Dreams Into Concrete
Written goals become more tangible; their scope becomes real with quantifiable parameters that you can take action upon. Writing down goals gives them shape and substance; giving passive desires concrete plans is the only way to turn passive desires into active plans that can be put into motion.
5. Use Both Sides of Your Brain
The right side of your brain is responsible for dreaming and longing, while its counterpart, the left brain, engages when writing down your goals and making them concrete. Success becomes possible when both sides work in unison to bring about change.
6. Increases Your Success Chances
Writing down your goals increases the odds of achieving them by 42%. Dr. Gail Matthews from Dominican University of California found that those who wrote down their goals were more likely to reach them.
7. Incorporating Successful People As Models
High achievers often set goals and set out what they wish to accomplish, then commit by writing their goals down. Tony Robbins, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso have all stressed the importance of doing this and it can lead to greater success if adopted into your daily habits.
Make Sure That Happiness Is Fostered
Goal setting can bring joy and fulfilment into your life. Writing down and working toward setting bigger targets helps create hope for a brighter future, providing joy and fulfillment along the way.
Conclusion
Writing down your dreams, no matter how large or small, is an integral step toward fulfilling them. To make them come true, take actionable steps that bring your ideas closer to reality.
Write out your goals, and take steps daily towards meeting them. Action is the key to realizing your dreams!
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