And that is when happy accidents occur. When you go to the grocery store with your goals in mind, join a social organization or matchmaking service, or keep a promise to yourself related to your goal, something can and will happen to you. You'll get breaks you never planned for because you didn't know they existed. We all suffer to some degree from the inability to merge our goals with our behaviors. This is why we must break our goals into targets.
Targets are actions or steps that are taken to meet our goals.
They are small goals that can be reached in a week or two. Getting married one year from today is a goal. Breaking it down into small tasks, such as the steps necessary to meet someone to marry, is targeting. Often we never get around to those little tasks because they never become targets or tiny goals. Using Targets Successfully As always, the best place to start is by writing things down.