You cannot "do" an objective, but you can break objectives into "doable" steps. That's why goal-setting and planning are skills to build early, and practice throughout your career. This is what all businesspeople do to become successful. Through effective planning, goal-setting, and maintaining activity records, you determine if you are meeting goals on schedule. If not, you make corrections before small problems become show-stoppers!

Often, you'll plan production and set goals in November or December of each year, reviewing results quarterly, monthly, and weekly to ensure you're on track. Having a plan to follow and goals to achieve gives you a destination, and a path to get there.

Try this! The planning and goal-setting you will do looks, first, at personal income needs and other financial objectives. If you have not already established a personal budget, we urge you to do so.