How to plan and set goals

* Setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life and what you want to achieve. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation.

* Create your long-term goal of what you want to do with your life say, the next 10 or 20 years Then, you break these down into smaller and smaller targets like yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily goals.

* Once you have your plan, you start working on it to achieve these goals.

* Some of the areas where you can have your goals are Career, Financial, Education, Family, Physical, Self Development, Pleasure, Public Service.

* Make goals as SMART (S- Specific,M- Measurable, A-  Attainable, R- Relevant, T-  Time-bound ) and set a deadline for each of those.