Having written goals can significantly increase a person's chances of success and financial prosperity. Only 1% of people have clear written goals, yet those who do are over 80% more likely to achieve their goals and are much more financially successful. Writing goals down removes distractions, increases focus, and helps with time management. Studies show people with written goals are 42% more likely to achieve them simply by writing them down.

1. Being Extraordinary Is As Simple As
Having Written Goals!
Presentation & Research by: The Proficient Impactors Triangle, Lifebushido

2. Get The Facts
● Less than one percent of people have
written goals
● Spending ten minutes or less to write down
goals can change a person’s life forever.
● Those who have written goals are much
more financially successful than those who
do not.

3. Resource: www.lifemastering.com/en/harvard_school.html
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4. Need More reasons? We have’em!
● Removes distractions and helps with focus
● Clearly defines where one is headed
● Productivity is increased
● Helps detour from procrastination
● Helps with time management
● They are in front of you at all times

5. Do you want to be more successful?
Statistics show people who write down their
goals have over an 80% higher success rate
of achieving them.
www.ecowellnessnews.net, author, Norma Reid from Dreams to Reality Success Coaching

6. Oh you write goals?
If you are one of the 10 percent who does
have written goals, do you read them every
day? Five percent of people read their goals
daily
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2012/09/goal-setting-why-90-of-us-dont-do.html, Ken Cheo
:principal at Winfree Business Growth Advisors
Good
But...

7. Let’s write them Down
Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor
at Dominican University in California, did a
study on goal-setting with 267 participants.
She found that you are 42% more likely to
achieve your goals just by writing them
down.
5 Reasons Why You Should Commit Your Goals to Writing, http://michaelhyatt.com/5-reasons-why-you-should-commit-your-goals-
to-writing.html

8. Let’s say “No” to Procrastination
Wikipedia definition.

9. How to do a written ListTHE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GOAL SETTING by Michael Hyatt
http://michaelhyatt.com/goal-setting.html
Keep them few in number.
Productivity studies show that you really
can’t focus on more than 5–7 items at any
one time.
And don’t try to cheat by including
sections with several goals under each
section. This is a recipe for losing focus
and accomplishing very little. Instead,
focus on a handful of goals that you can
repeat almost from memory.

10. What to Do and Not to Do
First! Go ahead and Write them down.
Review them frequently!
Caution: Be selective about what you share and
who you share it with!
Resource: THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GOAL SETTING by Michael Hyatt
http://michaelhyatt.com/goal-setting.html

11. Working Hard with No written goals
A hard worker with no written goals
Why You Should Be Writing Down Your Goals by Ashley Feinstein,
Forbes.com
We hear a lot about the importance of goal-setting, but most of us don’t
have clear and measurable goals to work towards. Even fewer of us
actually have those goals written down. Lewis Carroll says, “any road
will get you there, if you don’t know where you are going,” but how
important are goals really and if they are vital, how can we make them
most effective? There was a fascinating study conducted on the 1979
Harvard MBA program where graduate students were asked “have you
set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish
them?” The result, only 3% had written goals and plans, 13% had goals
but they weren’t in writing and 84% had no goals at all. Ten years later,
the same group was interviewed again and the result was absolutely
mind-blowing.
The 13% of the class who had goals, but did not write them down was
earning twice the amount of the 84% who had no goals. The 3% who
had written goals were earning, on average, ten times as much as the
other 97% of the class combined! While this study only looks at earnings
to quantify success, I still find it to be an extremely motivating example
of why creating clear and measurable goals and writing them down is a
key to success. Feeling motivated? Here are four steps to creating clear
and measurable goals that will lead you to huge success.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2014/04/08/why-you-
should-be-writing-down-your-goals/

12. An article by The Huffington Post explains why visualisation works:
When we visualize an act, the brain
generates an impulse that tells our
neurons to "perform" the movement. This
creates a new neural pathway -- clusters
of cells in our brain that work together to
create memories or learned behaviors --
that primes our body to act in a way
consistent to what we imagined. All of
this occurs without actually performing
the physical activity, yet it achieves a
similar result.
Source: http://www.quora.com/What-do-you-consider-to-be-the-1-factor-for-achieving-success
A quote from Kristina Kirilova a member of Quora
commented the below statement perfectly.
“#1 Factor for achieving success is to
visualise your goals and write them down!”

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