Goal: Write it down or write it off

It’s always nice when others agree. Darren Rowse has a post on ProBlogger about the importance of keeping a written record of your goal (and, I would add, each day’s success or failure). He has a nice quotation from a book he’s reading, Leverage: How to Create Your Own ‘Tipping Points’ in Business and in Life, by Darby Checketts:

Only goal setters who are goal writers are truly goal achievers.

Yes indeed. Students who want to create a new habit must set a goal and keep a daily written record of their goal-setting activities. What’s the Number 1 reason my students fail to achieve a goal? They don’t keep a written record.

For more on this check out How to Define a Goal, an excerpt from Good Habits, Good Students.

Author: Eric MacKnight

I have been teaching English since 1980 in the United States, Morocco, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, The Netherlands, and China. Good Habits, Good Students is my first book. View all posts by Eric MacKnight