A big step towards achieving your goals is developing and maintaining a goal-setting mindset as the attitudes you develop will influence the way you view goal-setting. Approaching a task with a negative and self-defeating attitude makes it much harder to actually be successful at that task.

Try to foster a positive attitude when setting and trying to achieve your goals. A positive attitude means you are looking for ways to SUCCEED rather than focusing on the

difficulties and obstacles that could be in your path.

To create a more positive attitude:

- Each day, note down something you did towards achieving your goals.

- Note down any changes someone else has noticed e.g. your teacher says well done on

your work.

- Don’t stop trying if something goes wrong, rather, reassess your goals or decide if you

need to work harder to achieve them.

- Find a mentor or helper to encourage you to achieve your goals, possibly someone who

is interested in the same things or is good at the same subjects but is a bit further ahead

of you.

Other reasons why we don’t achieve our goals:

- No action plan.

- No true commitment to the goal.

- Not rewarding yourself along the way.

- Trying to focus on too many goals.

- Not preparing yourself for success.

- Fear of failure.

If you are still not achieving your goal, try this:

- Clarify your goal.

- Write a list of actions.

- Analyse, prioritise and prune.

- Organise your list into a plan.

- Monitor the execution of your plan and review your plan regularly.

- Ask for help!

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