Double Your Chances of Reaching Your Goals

I wrote a guest post over at JohnChow.com on how you can double your chances of reaching your goals by simply writing them down. The post talks about a research study by Dominican University which compared how successful individuals who wrote down their goals were compared to those who did not. An excerpt from the post is below and the whjole article can be read here.

The test was conducted over the period of a month so it was for short term goals and a total of 149 participants were part of the study.

The research findings showed that of the participants in the study who simply thought about their goal scored a 4.28 on a scale of 8 in terms of achieving their goal where 0 is no progress made and 8 is goal fully accomplished. However, those in the last group who wrote down their goals, formulated action steps, sent their goals and steps to a friend, and created weekly reports on progress towards the goal scored 7.6.

Hence, this research supported the positive effective of accountability as those who sent progress reports to friends accomplished more than those who did not. The positive effect of written goals was also supported as those who wrote down their goals accomplished significantly more than those who did not.