Have you ever attempted to write an article, speech or story, but midstream you found yourself stuck and had no idea what to write next? Or perhaps you would love to write, but can’t seem to get started in the first place. Even the greatest writers have suffered when putting pen to paper. Below are

Many of our goals appear so big we get overwhelmed thinking about the long road ahead. One of the keys to achieving a big goal is to think small.

“Thinking big is subjective at best,” says Gladys Anderson, author of Master the Genie Within: Uncover, Embrace and Celebrate the Real You. “Big for one person may be something entirely different for another. It depends on individual desires and goals.”

“Simply put, time is money,” says Sheila Hawkins. owner of the Third Eye Group. “If you're wasting time looking for something in your files or on your computer, that's time that you're not spending on clients, and it's costing you money.”

92% of our worries are over baseless concerns, so why not imagine a positive outcome? Positive thinking is linked to increased life span, lower rates of depression and greater resistance to the common cold.

“The basic idea is to keep a journal based on activities rather than plain writing,” states LivingFile.com. “All updates are made up of unique activity types that both identify exactly what the activity was, while leaving room for comments and personal notes.”

Have you ever attempted to meet a particular goal repeatedly yet nothing seemed to work? Try this: look at a successful strategy you’ve used in the past for other goals. Then adapt the process to meet your current challenge.

Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last

“Optimism is, in itself, a kind of success, for it means you have a healthy, peaceful and contended mind. An exceedingly wealthy person can be a failure physically if his constant pessimism has given him ulcers.”—Napoleon Hill, A Year of Growing Rich

A Little Progress Goes a Long Way