Setting a goal can keep you focused and help steer you toward a particular objective. However to be successful at reaching your goal, it has to be specific, realistic and achievable. For example, let’s take the goal “I’m going to go to the gym every day”.
Specific: To be specific, the goal would have to be amended by adding two things: How long am I going to go to the gym every day? And what am I going to do once there? A goal can’t be open-ended. It has to have a defined ending point. A better goal would be “I’m going to go to the gym every day for the next two months.” But as you’ll see next, that goal is not realistic.
