This article describes how creating a goal or target can help you to succeed in life. Setting targets has among other things helped me to quit smoking cigarettes. I hope you enjoy reading my article.

I do not personally work in this industry; I actually provide a one-way link building service, advice about egg donation and I work part-time for a front doors company.

As for goals; one example I clearly remember from one such book, described a survey that had been carried out for schoolchildren who were in their final year of high school. The main question the people who commissioned the survey were interested in was about where the children wanted to be in five years time and what they wanted to be doing, for example in their business life.

It goes without saying that the majority of kids at this age are rather un-mature and only five of the answers ended up being considered as a proper target for the future. After a period of 5 years the 100 children who had been originally questioned in the survey were re-contacted and were asked to complete in a further survey. The results were quite staggering as the five children who had set a goal for the future had a higher combined net worth than the other ninety five added together. Money of course is not everything in life, however for me this showed, that is if you believe everything that you read, that you are more likely to be a success in life if you set yourself a goal.

I then worked through the areas of my life that I was less than impressed with. At that age, I smoked around fifteen cigarettes a day. This was something I quite enjoyed but which I knew was not healthy for me and something which also cost me a lot of money.

I set myself small targets, I would firstly reduce my intake to only ten a day and after two weeks reduce it down to five. I would then try to totally stop smoking after around a month.

This sounded so simple, however proved to be quite difficult. I was determined to stick to my goals and kept thinking of all of the benefits of quitting smoking. I am happy to say I was successful in my quest to stop smoking, even though it did take rather longer than one month.