This has been proven in my own life. In college (the first two years, anyway) were very successful because I always had a study plan. Before training for my first marathon, I had a plan in place 6 months in advance. Same thing with finishing my first Ironman. In each case, there was a written plan in place. The first two years of my Market America business were successful because – guess what? – I had a plan. Written down. On paper. That I looked every day.

So, as we start 2010, here I am writing out my goals. And from those goals I will develop my plan.

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Being an engineer, this plan will be in an excel spreadsheet – a tab for each goal. There will be a tab for my income goal. There will be a tab for my health and fitness goal. And there will be a tab for my personal development goal.

Will I follow these plans, perfectly. Well, I’ve never been able to follow any of the previous plans perfectly in the past. But I’d always been able to acheive or get close to acheiving the goal. That’s a great feeling by the way. One that’s well worth the effort in developing the plan.

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