U-Turn Ahead

Okay, if you read my 8 Tips for New Year’s Resolution Success, then you know that I have advocated choosing just one resolution for 2008. I suggest this because of the largely unsuccessful attempts that I hear about every year…often because of making too many lofty goals without a plan for success. But I suspect that many of you will not take my advice. Nonetheless, whether you make one resolution or many, you should have some system for tracking your success.

Well, Lawrence from A Long Long Road has some excellent recommendations. His recent blog titled 7 Cool Tools To Help You Manage Your Goals for 2008 has a tool to fit just about everyone. From a simple, but effective paper and pencil solution to the Franklin Covey ultimate software, Lawrence presents seven tools for tracking your New Year’s success.

“It’s the time of the year to review our goals and set new ones again.

For those new to A Long Long Road, I’m a firm believer in making New Year Resolutions and setting goals. When I first started setting goals, I did it with simple, old paper and pen. Later, I typed my goals into Word documents. After a few years, I moved on to goal setting/tracking software.

Goals management tools are really important to help us set goals and track them. With good tools to facilitate good goals, you’ll have a better chance of achieving them. As such, I went scouring the Internet for goal management tools for different types of users…”