One of the immediate benefits of this exercise is that you become more conscious of everything you do and who is controlling the use of your time. Before the first day is through, you may have identified some new goals or changed certain behaviors to immediately improve your performance. Experience has proven time and again that the expectation and the reality will be out of balance. Make some goals for those areas you would like to better control and manage, and then focus on improving your ability to achieve results through goal setting. A goal is a description of an objective one would like to attain or accomplish.
Goals often arise from unfulfilled needs.
Closing the gap between your current status and the desired outcome often requires performing a number of steps or activities. People often use planners to schedule and coordinate these activities, and track progress toward goal achievement. Goals may be revised or eliminated if appropriate. Not all goals have the same priority or deadline. Some activities need to be performed before another can begin.