Well, that's case with traditional goal setting systems because only left brain understands words. The right brain understands visualization and pattern, midbrain understands real or imagined emotions and brainstem understands real or imagined physical behavior.

That's why failure is so common.

But there is an alternative.

It's this: translate your objective into different languages each part of brain can understand.

Once you have translated your written objective and modified it so that all four parts of brain are in agreement, then you have made major progress toward successfully achieving your goal.

The second step you need to take to successfully achieve an objective revolves around fact that essentially no one can maintain a conscious focus on anything for more than 5 seconds.

Yet most traditional goal setting systems tell you to keep focused on what you want to achieve. That can't happen. Conscious long-term focus is an impossibility.

But when unconscious mind is focused on something - such as keeping your heart beating and blood pumping, your body weight reasonably constant or breathing - that something happens. Otherwise, we'd all be dead.

Well, that kind of unconscious focus is required to consistently achieve challenging objectives, too.

The third step to successfully achieve your objective is to level out unconscious road blocks that, otherwise, make accomplishing things impossible. Since these roadblocks operate without our conscious awareness -- like asthma, headaches, and maintaining a constant body weight when you consciously want to lose weight -- no level of conscious will power can overcome them.

But when properly instructed by conscious mind, unconscious will instantly change its programming from opposing a result that you want to support its achievement.

If you accomplish all three of these steps - translation, focus, and removal of road blocks - then you have almost a 100 percent chance of consistently achieving your seemingly impossible objectives.

4. Average Page Views per Visit Think of this as "depth" of each visit. Most visitors to your site will only see a single page (generally your home page) before they click on to next site. This is normal. Web users are goal oriented. They scan pages to see if they contain or link to information they want. If they don't think they're on right track they'll abandon site. But visitors who view multiple pages are clearly interested. The challenge is to convert them from browsers to buyers.

5. Most (and Least) Popular Pages Which pages do your visitors request most (and least)? Monitoring these stats identifies usability and navigation problems on your site. If visitors are not clicking through to a page that's important to your business you can address problem (by modifying navigation or position of a link, for example) and then measure result of changes.

6. Referring pages Each time someone visits your site, their browser sends a "referrer" which allows you to track where they came from. This is important because it tells you who links to your site and what search engines visitors use to find your site. It allows you to track effectiveness of promotion and advertising. Referring sites may also contribute to your traffic by increasing your link popularity rating with Search Engines.

7. Top Keywords and Phrases Pay close attention to keywords and phrases that are (and aren't but should be) included in your site statistics. These are words people are actually using to find your site. This information will not only help you better serve and sell to your audience, it can also lead to higher Search Engine rankings.

CONCLUSION Web logs contain valuable information about your site. By understanding general trends and specific activity that's taking place, you can make better business decisions. Web log analysis allows you to determine what's working -- And what's not. And that's a huge benefit for any business.