--- title: How To Achieve Your Goals description: Emphasize the importance of checking in with yourself. canonical: https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/ author: Karin Agness article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-23T13:00:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:01:53.414Z og:title: This Habit Makes You Much More Likely to Achieve Your Goals og:description: Move in the right direction for you og:url: https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4de67ecaaaabbd1/69887e5f8e06012d5a464af3/goal-report-card-habits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: goal-report-card-habits og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Habit Makes You Much More Likely to Achieve Your Goals twitter:description: Move in the right direction for you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4de67ecaaaabbd1/69887e5f8e06012d5a464af3/goal-report-card-habits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Habit Makes You Much More Likely to Achieve Your Goals > Sponsored content. 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Only now, instead of getting marks in math, history and English, you should broaden what you measure to include anything that’s important to you. This might be making a certain amount of money, developing a new workplace skill or getting a promotion. You might also want to touch on other areas of life: Health, religion and, yes, relationships. No need to limit it just to academics or your career. For example, you could make it a priority to visit your grandparents once a month. Concrete goals like this have an advantage of being easy to evaluate. **_Read more:_** [_Doing This One Thing Can Save You Thousands of Dollars a Year_](http://motto.time.com/4226715/save-thousands-dollars-30-minutes/) Just as you would get progress reports in school, it’s helpful to establish a routine to ensure you’re checking in on your goals and giving yourself a “grade.” The routine could be as informal as posting your aspirations on your mirror so you’re reminded of them every day or as formal as scheduling a Google calendar “meeting” with yourself to reflect on your progress every month or so. In the age of Instagram, when it’s so easy to get caught up in a cycle of comparing yourself to others, writing your own report card will help you stay focused on moving in the right direction for _you_. _Karin Agness is president of the Network of Enlightened Women and a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/"},"headline":"This Habit Makes You Much More Likely to Achieve Your Goals","datePublished":"2016-02-23T13:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:01:53.414Z","description":"Report cards aren’t just for students","url":"https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/","keywords":["motto","health","advice","goals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4de67ecaaaabbd1/69887e5f8e06012d5a464af3/goal-report-card-habits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karin Agness","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/karin-agness/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4de67ecaaaabbd1/69887e5f8e06012d5a464af3/goal-report-card-habits.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"goal-report-card-habits","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4231076/habit-achieve-goals/","name":"This Habit Makes You Much More Likely to Achieve Your Goals"}}]}] ```