With the advent of the fever created by a book by Dan Brown, stories suddenly became the focal point of everything. Everything started in a story, they say. When God created the world; it is a story. The other side of this, i.e., evolution, is also a story. Jesus' mission is also a story. And His supposed relationship with Mary Magdalene is a story in itself. Here are several simple and practical tips or steps when you are embarking on a financial goal setting task. It would advisable if you would write down the specific financial goals that you ultimately want to achieve over time. You can get a piece of paper and write them all down, then keep the paper where it can be easily found. If the goal or plan is way below to your capacity, your tendency is to be lax, and this will not develop your productivity. The essence of planning and goal setting is to improve or elevate your performance. There s no way that the elements in your plan will not help you improve for the better. The fifth letter in smart goal setting stands for TANGIBLE. The team should collectively stand as a perfect sports entity with unified goals, though divided in weaknesses and strengths; and that would surely be the sports team s strength. Set measurable, realistic, specific, achievable, timely and practical goals for the sports team. Make sure these goals are put up in a simplified and easily comprehensible manner that the team as w hole would not ever forget especially during the ardent, tedious and hard practice sessions, when patience is utmost needed and required from each team member. These fitness goals would require not just physical activities but also a great sense of discipline in food intake and overall lifestyle. For example, losing weight would entail a great, carefully planned and tested diet. Gaining muscles would require more physical agility exercises that sometimes could be too hard, tiring, and could even lead to muscle or joint injuries. Come up with smaller goals to complement your biggest one. The smaller goal will help you achieve the ultimate goal of your business, by providing the step by step actions leading to the ultimate plan. By doing this, you will also see more clearly the initial errors inherent with an imperfect plan. In the process, you will know what actions are effective and what are not.