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This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to make sure you know exactly what success

will look like. How will you know exactly if you have achieved your goal? By being specific

about knowing when you have one, as it were, you will be able to take the actions that will help you get there.

So this is a time of year when a lot of people are working toward goals or New Year's resolutions.

For instance, you may have decided to declutter your house, or revamp your wardrobe, or repair a

broken relationship with your brother. You may have other

goals related to work or health or relationships, hobbies, or something else. I love goals.

But one of the reasons people have trouble with resolutions is that it is often hard to know

if you have succeeded. What exactly is a decluttered home? How will you know if your home is

officially decluttered? How will you know if you have gotten in shape or are in a better place with a

relationship? What exactly will success look like? Now for things, there is a lot of natural ambiguity.

But even so, it might help to visualize what success means

and set some sort of metric that you will be able to work toward achieving.

You want to know when you have crossed the finish line.

Sometimes people like to motivate themselves with visions of a changed life.

A decluttered home means you have calm mornings when you know where your keys are.

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