It would be very surprising to find an adult in work force who has not heard about goal setting. A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there were only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goals--and these were most successful! You can be certain that every one of those students had repeatedly heard value of goal setting. Yet only 3% actually wrote down their goals consistently. Imagine what you can do if you both write down your goals and, then, focus on them every day, every week, until they are accomplished!

What is it causes "New Year's Resolution Syndrome"? You probably know one. People make resolutions, work hard at them for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, and then forget them. Next year, they make same New Year's Resolutions. That is syndrome. It is self-defeating and self-sabotaging. So, why do so many people do it?

They may be making goals that are too global, too extensive, too unrealistic for time frame, body type or current finances. That is not to say that they are not worthy goals. They need to be broken apart into smaller, more specific, attainable pieces. The elephant analogy is still best one I know of to illustrate good goal setting. You probably know it. "How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time." So it is with goals. Make spoon size goals and accomplish them. One you've mastered those, get a bigger spoon!

-What is most likely problem? -Will it cost a lot of hard-earned money to fix it?

Well, one of most common and easiest problems to fix is YOUR LACK OF CONFIDENCE! Be it in your business, yourself, your product, in dealing with people, whatever, it can be a HUGE wall blocking your way to succeeding!

-How can that be? -What could that possibly have to do with success?

Consider these examples:

Have you ever held yourself back from; *Writing an article for publishing? *How about that award you almost submitted for, but thought your site was not good enough? *What could be holding you back from trying to design your own webpage or graphics?

You may have an adequate knowledge to accomplish these things and more, but lack confidence to proceed with benefiting action. (Just look at what confidence did for that certain naked survivor from first Survivor show! It helped him win a million dollars!)

When you have a Internet or home-based business, of course you are very proud of what you accomplish, but what happens when it comes to telling others about it? There is a certain stigma that comes with having this type of business. People react one of two ways. It's either- "Tell me more about it, I want to do that too!" OR "Oh, do you make any money that way?"