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When you’ve set goals that are specific and challenging, you’ll want to add timelines to each goal. Doing so takes your goals from theory to actual practice — in other words, setting deadlines makes your goals more likely to become reality. Setting deadlines helps you remain focused on your goals, so that they don’t exist simply as dreams — they become real. Examples include an athlete wanting to be able to leg press a certain amount of weight in 30 days or a tennis player wanting to hit 200 first serves with at least 50 percent accuracy going in within two weeks.

Setting deadlines for your goals is one of the key factors that separates good athletes from elite ones. If you don’t set deadlines, you’ll likely allow other things to get in the way. Before you know it, the day, week, month, or even year has gone by and the goal is still sitting there unaccomplished.

Put your deadlines for accomplishing your goals on a calendar, and review that calendar regularly. You should know, every day, what you’re doing to reach your immediate, short-term, midterm, and long-term goals.