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Goal setting is an important method of:  - Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life
- Separating what is important for you from what is irrelevant
- Motivating yourself to achievement
- Building your self-confidence based on measured achievement of goals
You can set goals effectively by: - Phrasing them positively
- Defining them precisely
- Prioritizing multiple goals
- Writing them down
- Keeping them manageable: Not too hard, but not too easy.
- Setting performance goals, not outcome goals
 Failure in meeting goals is useful in improving technique and long-term success as long as you draw useful lessons from it and feed these back into your goal-setting program.
You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward yourself appropriately. Lessons should be drawn where appropriate, and should be fed back into training.  Make any changes necessary to ensure it meets the criteria for SMART goals:
S = Specific
M = Measurable
A = Attainable
R = Realistic
T = Timely As a final point, if you do not already set goals, or if you have not yet focused on your life goals, NOW is a great time to start!
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