People perform better when they are committed to achieving certain goals. Goal Setting is a process of thinking about your ideal future and for motivating yourself to achieve your goals. By setting well-defined goals you can measure your achievements and take necessary steps to develop additional knowledge, skill and attitude to achieve what you want to achieve in life. Your goals could be related to your career, family, financial, education, attitude, physical abilities, pleasure, public service, social service, etc. Always state your goal as a positive statement and try your best to achieve it. 

Goals can be long-term or short-term. The following steps are important to set a goal: 

1. Simple: A goal should be concrete and specific. 

2. Measurable: Monitor and evaluate so that we know whether we are achieving our goal or not. If it is not going well, maybe we need to alter our goal or our action plan. When we achieve the goal, reward ourselves by doing something we enjoy and congratulate ourselves on a job well done. 

3. Action-based: Use action verbs in our goal statement. 

4. Realistic: A goal should be realistic, which means manageable and achievable. Our motivation may drop if our goal is unrealistic, and we set ourselves up for failure.

 5. Time Limited: A goal can be broken into smaller and more manageable steps. Then it becomes possible to give a timeframe for achieving the goal. If it is a larger goal, list the benefits if we accomplish our goal and list any obstacles to overcome. Come up with a specific action plan and timetable for each step in accomplishing our goal and for overcoming obstacles