Goal Setting

Yesterday I talked about how to make your dreams a reality. The importance of goals and a plan.

This post relates closely to that.

I 1979 Harvard business school did a survey of the graduating MBA students.

84% of the class had no goals at all.
13% of the class had written goals.
3% of the class had written goals and a detailed plan on how to achieve those goals.

After 10 years the same people were interviewed again. The 13% with written goals had made twice as much money as the 84% that had no written goals.

The really interesting thing, though, was that the 3% who had written goals and a detailed plan of action had made 10 times the amount of money of the other 97% of the class.

I think this is a good example for us all to learn from. If you want to make your dreams come true, you not only need very specific goals (your destination) but you also need a plan of action (your map).