 A MIS study from Harvard or Yale, depends on where you read about this, where it was like the class of 1953. And they had half of their alumni write down their goals for the future. And then half their alumni just didn't write down their goals. And then they tracked them like 20 years later. And supposedly the alumni who wrote down their goals were far more successful than the alumni who did not write down their goals. So that's the research that has been cited by I think Zig Ziglar or other motivational speakers. And so when I looked into this, I'm like, God, that's fascinating. I did some research on this, could not find it anywhere online. There are articles that talk about that study but not from Harvard or Yale or any other Ivy League school. And some further research turns out that that is probably an urban myth that there was no such study. So instead, there was somebody from Dominican University, a researcher who did this kind of study and did discover that when you write down your goals based on her research, the group that wrote down their goals accomplished 42% more of their goals than the group who just simply thought about it. And the group that, and then there was another group that she studied that accomplished 77% more than the group that merely thought about their goals. Now, most of us don't even think about their goals to the extent that the study said, well, think about your goals, think about how hard it is to achieve them, rank them, all that stuff. Most of us don't even think about their goals. Most of us maybe have dreams about our goals and then we might have a to-do list but we don't really connect the goals to the to-do list very well and we don't use accountability. So let me share with you basically what the research was. So she had five groups of people. One group simply thought about their goals and evaluated their goals just without writing them down. A second group wrote down their goals. A third group wrote down their goals and the action commitments, what are those action commitments? Meaning, okay, I would like to write a book, okay, maybe that's a goal. And then the action commitments would be I commit to writing two pages a day for the next four weeks. And to be specific, they were talking about goals for the next four weeks. So that was the study. So this group, this third group again, wrote down their goals and their action commitments. The fourth group wrote down their goals and their action commitments and sent them to a friend. So hi, Mary, here are my goals and action commitments for the next four weeks. That's it, that's the fourth group. And the fifth group, not only did they do all of that but they also reported back to their friend once a week. Hey, Mary, this is how it went with my action commitments for the prior week and this is what I'm gonna be doing for the upcoming week. So that's what the fifth group did. And the fifth group who wrote down their goals, their action commitments leading to the goals and reported back weekly to their friend or accountability partner, achieved 77% more than the group, the initial group that only thought about their goals and evaluated them. So probably they would have achieved them more compared to the most of us who simply dream about our goals or don't even have goals, okay? So the research, this is the only research study that could find about the power of written goals and accountability. And so I wanna encourage you to use this research to get more done, you know, to make more progress on your dreams. So again, the research is clear. What you've gotta do is you've got to write down your goals and I did some further reading about the power of written goals is that the more specific you can be about the goal, the more in detail you can describe the results of the goal the better. So doing some journaling about what goal is important to you is very helpful, okay? So write down your goals, step one, step two is write down the actions that you'll need to take and that you commit to taking in order to achieve that goal. It's not enough just to say, I wanna write a book or I wanna create an online course. Well, what exactly are you going to do to allow that to happen? Okay, so what are the actions you're committed to taking? So that's the second step. The third step is to send these to a friend who's gonna be doing this with you. Again, do it for four weeks and keep doing it for another four weeks if you find it beneficial, but do it for four weeks and have a friend do this with you, send this video to a friend or if you have a life coach or a business coach or you can hire one, do this with them, okay? Four weeks at a time, but you check in with that friend or coach once a week. And when you check in with that friend or coach, your accountability partner basically, let them know how you did with your action commitments for the previous week, okay? And if you didn't get it done, if you didn't accomplish what you said you would, what can you change? What can you change about your behavior or your routine so that you're more likely to do your action commitments for the following week? Because if you just keep doing the same routine and you keep not getting things done, something's gotta change, whether you gotta make more realistic action commitments or do you have to schedule more time for you to take those actions? Usually it's about scheduling more time or when it comes to the time to do those things, maybe you have to close the door and find more focus routine, a more focused routine. Maybe you need to use focusmate.com or join my free virtual co-working group. So whatever it is, what do you need to modify if you need to get to be more effective at making those action commitments effective the following week? So that's what, report to your partner each week. Did you get it done the past week? If not, what can you modify for the coming week and what specifically are you gonna do in this coming week? So just report those three things to your partner once a week, you can do this through email or through text messaging or Facebook messaging or whatever you need to just, or do a 15 minute call with your partner and then watch your achievements soar in the coming weeks. It's quite simple, but most of us don't do this. So I'm gonna really encourage you to try this for the next four weeks and let me know how it goes for you. I really look forward to hearing. Okay, so at this point, I would love for you to comment below and let me know what you think about this video and while I'm waiting for you to comment, I'm gonna go ahead and take a look to see if there are any comments from my Facebook Live video attendees. In case you didn't know, I do these videos every Tuesday and Friday at 12 30 p.m. Pacific, which is 3 30 p.m. Eastern. And I think that's like 8 30 p.m. London time. So for those who wanna join me live, I encourage you to show up at those times. And let me see if there's a comment. And there is a comment now from Captain and thank you so much Captain for your comment. And Captain says, I think writing down the action step is a very huge factor. And I totally agree, most of us don't have the instinct to write down the specific action steps to our goals. Most of us don't grow up with that kind of training. And if you do this, you'll find that it tends to make quite a difference. So I hope this is helpful and I look forward to hearing how it goes for you. All right, take care.