What goes wrong in goal setting?  What makes a solid list of goals go to pieces in just six weeks?  The problem may be within the person who is trying to complete this list of goals or it may be the goal list itself.  Here are four of the most common mistakes people make when planning their goals.

1. The goal is too vague.
2. The goal is not yours but is someone else’s vision of success.
3. You made your goal “public.”
4. You set an individual goal that’s too hard or too easy.

In our "Step by Step Goal Setting" guide, we examine two more important reasons on why people do not accomplish their goals.  Because of the complexities of these (they are both related to the subconscious mind) we need to analyze them in more detail than can be explained here in this blogpost.