Future Tool #6 Goals Are Not Just for Executives and Business Plans We have all heard how powerful goal-setting is, but many of us don’t think our goals are grand enough to write down. We think our desires are simple and not impressive, so why write them down? Well, I say if you want any of those goals to happen, you have a much better chance of success if you write them down. The reason I believe this to be true is by writing them down, we are taking them from the dream world and creating a place where they exist in the world and not just in our minds. There is something about the act of writing them down that makes them exist in a way they haven’t existed before; it makes them important enough to be acknowledged. Writing down goals develops the “planning” muscle, which is one of the most important muscles in weight loss. It is good practice in planning your life instead of just wating for it to happen. The more my clients plan the details of their lives, the more weight they lose— period. I have seen it time and time again. Committing to the daily goals of exercising and eating in a well- planned, thought-out way seems to get them halfway QaXe MoD1 WDtD1e SaYYenfUon’t Let It SaYYen to MoD ! 199