Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

You are 43% more likely to accomplish your goals if you simply write them down.

You can't just be thinking, I want more money, I want more this, I want more

this, like write down specifically what you want. It is going to force you to really start taking

action. You're not putting something in your mind. You're putting it on paper. You're looking at it.

This is a signal, a trigger to say, I want to create this thing. Now manifesting it by putting it on a physical thing that I can look at. If you're just thinking it, it hasn't left you yet. It hasn't been in the world yet. You're just thinking it. Now you need to put it down, write it down, look at it. You're connecting your thought with something you're looking at now of a goal

that you want to accomplish. By doing that, it's going to force you to start saying, how can I make

this happen? How can I go create this? How can I manifest this? How can I bring this to my life?

Writing it down is a huge step. If you've never done it before, I highly recommend it. And when I wrote my first book,

I didn't just wait for inspiration. I wasn't just like, I want to write a book and I'm going to do it

when I feel ready for it. No, I made a daily word count target. I gave myself a deadline. I had small,

measurable actions that added up to a finished book over months.

By doing it on a daily basis, here's what I will do every day, the action steps.

I could measure that every day. I could reflect on it. I could edit it. I could change it.

But I was thinking a thought, I want to write a book.

And then I said, okay, I want to write a book by this date. And I want to get this many sales.

And I want to be a bestseller. And I want this, this, this. The clearer I got by writing it down and giving myself measurables on a daily basis.

Then I just had to follow through and take the actions. By taking the actions, I built confidence, and it wasn't perfect.

But I was creating something now rather than just thinking about the resolution that I had.

And your goal should be so clear that you can track progress week by week, day by day,

and set yourself up for success.

Because the year is going to fly by.

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