505 - Do you have detailed written goals?

Never under estimate the power of writing down goals.

In 1962, John F Kennedy said, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

That was a massive goal, but they hit it. You know they had those plans written out!

We reached that goal 7 years, and many failures, later.

Napoleon Hill said, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

He also said, "Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire".

Even the Bible talks about the power of writing down your vision, in Habakkuk 2:2, " Write the vision, make it plain on tablets..."

For thousands of years, wise men have been instructing us on the power of writing our visions, goals and dreams.

And yet, many people reading this right now have no written plan in front of them.

Benjamin Franklin did not mince his words when he said, "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail".

Winston Churchill used it as well, "He who fails to plan is planning to fail".

Some people say they have a plan but it is not written down. That is not a plan.

One person I know who is a master at planning is @John Knotts. John is a master at writing down plans and it shows in his work.

Look in the comments for John's response. I know it will be helpful. (Yes, John, I'm calling you out).

One of the most important things any of us can do to move our business forward is write down our goals and readjust as needed.

We will occasionally crash along the way, just as NASA did (Apollo 1 and the Challenger). But they kept moving forward.

The success of the US moon mission, as impossible as it once seemed, is proof enough that following a detailed plan will lead to success.

Anything is possible!

Do you have detailed written goals?