Why writing down your goals is a powerful process.

"Vision is specific. It is goal-oriented and undeniably tenacious. Vision investigates and delineates what is currently practiced and seeks to tweak it to produce qualitative results. Vision personified walks in the Spirit of Excellence, aggravates the status quo, and frustrates any attempt to perpetuate mediocre performance." Marcus Mason (National Writing project)

For many of us, accomplishing what we dream of is a challenge mainly because we fail to properly articulate WHAT it is we truly want! More damaging to our chance of success is the sad truth that our dreams cannot become our reality if they stay locked inside our head and we NEVER act upon them.

However once you put something in writing it becomes much more concrete and tangible than what we keep in our heads making our  plans easier to stick to and succeed at.

Several benefits come out of the writing process:


ATTENTION AND AFFIRMATION
* When you write down your ideas and goals your mind will automatically focus your full attention on them promoting more creative thinking and motivation for taking action.
ACCOUNTABILITY
* In addition you will be forced to clarify what you're doing and in some instances what you want others to do. As long as an idea remains in our heads, it's not made accountable as we don't usually subject our ideas to rigorous scrutiny when they're just random or even re occurring thoughts. In contrast when we write out the idea, goal or plan its strengths and weaknesses begin to surface as we consider the idea more critically.
ACCESSIBILITY
* Since most thoughts for the future are often complex or uncertain, a written version of your plan enables you to organise and illustrate your points with more detail and therefore explain much more simply to others what you intend to do and what you are trying to achieve.
AIDE- MEMOIR
* Recorded words create a "memorial of truth" which enables you to be constantly reminded of the ideas and goals and desired outcomes and this in turn will renew determination to complete the task or project with a sure and steady step.


And the Lord answered me, and said, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it."

—Habakkuk 2:1-3, King James Bible

Got an idea goal or dream for your life? 

Write it down and see it take shape!