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I've been reviewing my 2006 goals and quite frankly, I failed miserably. Granted, I overreached and was also dealing with a 6-month severe depression.

Now, I am looking at goals for 2007. Many of them are the same, however I'm paring them down in order to get more reachable goals. I figured I'd rather have goals that are a little bit lower, but achieved than higher goals and fail at them.

Anyhow, I realized today that most of my goals for this year were "consequence" goals. For example, "I want to lose XXX pounds". I'm wondering if I should be changing my goals to more "action" goals, for example, "I will workout 20 times during the month of December".

It seems to me that the action goals are better than the consequence goals because you are more able to make sure that they happen. For example, I can make sure that I workout 20 times during the month. It will lead to losing weight, but doesn't guarantee it.

Has anyone else thought about this? What are your thoughts on these two different types of goals? What kind of goals do you set and why?

Thanks All,
Ed