Research has shown that people who succeed at getting more out of life have certain habits that make big differences between success and failure.

One such habit was observed by researchers at Harvard and Yale. They asked the final year students if they had set any goals for their lifetime. What they found in both universities was that 84% had none, 13% had goals in their head and that only 3% had written goals.

20 years later, they tracked down the same people to find out where they were in life. What they found was that the 3% were worth more financially than the other 97% together. The startling fact was that when the researchers tracked down all of these people only 10 years later, they discovered that the 3% were worth more than 10 times the collective wealth of the 97%. Not only that, but they also led happier and more fulfilling lives!

So it seems that even if you do nothing other than writing down what you want, you are putting the balance of success in your favour. Be aware that the researchers found that the 3% who had written goals, wrote them in a very specific way which the average person wasn’t aware of.

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