Setting Goals

The more specific goals you can set, the better chance you will achieve your goals. If you want to lose weight, you should set very specific goals and a plan of action to achieve your goals, such as: "I want to lose 10 pounds by the end of March. In order to reach my goal I will exercise 4 times each week for at least 1 hour each time. I will cut out fast food. I will not eat refined sugars."

Scrapbooking doesn't just happen. For those of us with extremely busy lives, it's important to set time aside to finish our scrapbooks. You may want to take some time to determine what goals would be appropriate for your scrapbooking. It might be to attend a crop once a month, or organize that box of photos under your bed, or finally get your hundreds of scrapbooking embellishments organized. It might be to include more journaling, or to create a mini scrapbook for each of your children. Whatever your scrapbooking goals, if you are specific you are more likely to be successful.

I found a great quote about setting specific goals.

"A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person." — Neal A. Maxwell

Good luck with your goals and even if you mess up -- just get back on track and keep moving forward.