Goal Setting It is a great time to think about new year resolution as year of 2016 is approaching. Like the majority, I like to have my goal setting process at the beginning of each year. The good news is I can always come up with a bunch of exciting objectives that I am passionate about. But the result turned out to be fail most of the time.  Today when coming across life score assessment created by Michael Hyatt, an influencial coach and leader that I followed on Twitter years ago, I make a quick self-evaluation by going through that Excel file and revisit one of his podcasts discussing about goal setting. Here below I will list out the key principles Michael suggests when creating objectives.  1. Keep your goal filling in number. 7-10 objectives are good enough. You do not show commitment or stretch yourself if the number of your goal is too less and at the same time, having more than 10 goals will distract your focus and normally you just could not accomplish any of them. 2. Make them SMARTER. Everyone understands "SMART" principle and here Michael is trying to add two more rules. Let me just jump into the "ER" part. "E" stands for exciting and "R" refers to relevant. Goals you are creating should be something compelling, something you are excited if you work towards that and most important they are relevant to your season of life. If you are parents, evening time with your kids and reading them to bed may be your choice. Jogging at 9. P.M. may not be suitable for you to consider.  3. Write them down. The power of writing your goal done is approved by experiment and people who have their goals in written dramatically increase their possibility of goal accomplishment. 4. Review them frequently. Going through your goal and reviewing on-going status in daily, weekly and monthly basis helps you keep up the work. This is the trap I always get stuck as I never or seldom reviewed them until the very deadline I set was approaching, then realized that it was impossible to complete them on time. The consquence is, I lose the confident and interests to start over, and somehow just forget it or feel demotivated.  5. Share them selectively. Another effective way to hold yourself accountable is sharing with someone you trust with. It would be your spouse, friends, business partners, sometimes even your boss. The key is finding someone that you feel safe to share, who do not nag or make judgement on you.  The key learning I have so far is to take action and keep tracking.