What you do with your goals after they are set is just as important as having them. Are you doing the same things to your goals as highly successful people are?

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Aaron Smith, Phone: 804.346.5900

Taking a deep breath of relief while being full of hope for the future is a feeling that is hard to beat.

And there is nothing more encouraging than putting the past behind you and pressing forward onto new and greater things.

When it comes to your financial future, your goals should reflect the wealth and security that you are looking forward to. Once you have your goals in mind, one of the most important things that you can do with them is to write them down.

Once you write them down, don’t close your notebook and forget that your goals are there, and just move on with life. It is important to keep that notebook open to review your goals regularly.

Reviewing your financial goals are just as important as setting them.

Writing your goals down and reviewing them helps you to stay focused, track progress, and remember why you set them in the first place. But by keeping only a “mental note” of your goals, you forfeit the ability to review them. And if you don’t review your goals, there is a great chance that you will lose focus and falter.

When you forgo writing down and reviewing your goals, you still may get lucky and move closer towards your desired end, but you may not have the progress that written goals can afford.

Don’t leave the life you want in the hands of luck… You make it happen.

3% of students who had set and written their goals had an average income that was ten times more than the other 97% of their class…

An intriguing study was done in 1979 on MBA students at Harvard University. Graduate students were asked this question:

“Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?”

How would you answer this question?

It turned out that 84% said ”No.” They had no goals at all.
13% had goals, but they were not written down.
And only 3% had goals and plans in writing

Fast forward ten years later… The same group of students were interviewed again.

The 13% of the students who had set goals, but kept them all in their heads and not written down on paper, actually made twice as much money than the 84% who had no goals at all.

But here’s the kicker! The 3% of students who had set and written their goals had an average income that was ten times more than the other 97% of their class… combined.

Say what?!?!?

When you set goals, write them down, and review them you will put yourself in the 3% just like that! You may even surprise yourself at what you will inevitably achieve. Having the financial literacy to pair with your top-notch goal-setting skills will place you at an unprecedented advantage in getting the life you want.

So I charge you…

Set a goal. Get excited.
Write them down.
Review them.
And achieve!