Define your goals and create specific objectives.

Set realistic but challenging short-term and long-term goals for yourself, and continuously track your progress. If you don’t know where you’re going, how can you ever expect to get there? When you don't meet a goal, start over, figure out why and take another run at it.

It doesn't matter if you fail to meet a goal only if you fail to keep striving to hit it at some point. When you have to take several shots to hit a goal the achievement is actually a bigger rush. It all starts with setting goals and tracking them,

~ Cory Jones