My first guest post about goal setting just got posted on Diary 4 Life, a very active and popular personal development blog. The title is "5 Ways to Set Goals that Really Matter". Hang out there and feel free leave your thoughts and suggestions. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!

I’ve been tweeting, digging, facebooking, stumbling, linkedining (that sounded weird) for a while now. And I thought, “why not hack into the ever popular social media concept and come up with a new way of setting goals?” So I’ve designed a way for you to post your goals online, with a photo. Let me explain. There are some web applications out there that allow you to post your goals online and help you keep track of it through their own system. Some might think that it’s useful. However, did they ever become famous from helping people achieve their goals? Hardly.

Do you have messes in your life? That desk you’ve been trying to clean up, the closet full of clothes you don’t want, the to-do lists you’ve kept adding but not ticking off! If you’re one of those people that have messes all over the place, be it your house or your workplace or even your mind, you should keep reading.

I've been listening to Bob Proctor's recordings and watching his "six minutes to success" videos for a while now. There's this section that particularly strikes me: 3 questions you should ask yourself today. The story goes like this: There's a woman whose husband died very suddenly and left her an engineering company. It did about $10 million dollars a year. She never went to the office even though she'd show up during social functions. Everybody thought she'd sell the company since she wasn't involved in the business operations at all. Surprisingly, she went in and called the heads of all departments. She asked them 3 questions: