I found a great tip on how to reach your goals. Bob Walsh of Lifehack.com calls it “your lifeline to the future” (digg it) It’s a lifeline because it pulls you from where you don’t want to be, to where you want to be. The lifeline is a brilliant idea: Every day, spend the first 30 minutes doing things you know will get you closer to your goals. I’ve already tested it, and it works!

My goal is to make Brakar.com a great blog and my primary income source. For a long time, it seemed like it would never take off. Then I started getting up at 5am (almost) every morning to work on it for two hours (yeah I have to do everything bigger). BAM! The effect was instant. I write more content, get more visitors and my motivation continues to build.

* Know what future you want. So what do you really want? Look in your heart of hearts for that really big thing you want. Maybe it�s making a million bucks a month, or fulfilling your lifelong ambition, or finding The Right Girl or The Right Guy. Be honest - there�s only you and me here - and I won�t talk. Now write it down where only you will see it. That�s the big beautiful future you want to get your lifeline around so you can pull yourself to it. Refer to it often. Look at it when you go to sleep, look at it when you wake up.
* Let go of your luggage. That�s right, stick all the emails decaying in your inbox into a new folder, move all the hundreds of documents littering your desktop and My Documents folder to a new folder, drag all those bookmarks and favorites you just had to mark to a new folder, delete all your saved voicemails, bag every task lingering on your to do list older than a week. Heresy! Blasphemy! Nope: Reality. If you want to get to the future you�ve got to let go of the past, and besides, to be brutally honest, what are the chances you are going to deal with all those dead open loops? Slim to none. Lighten your load. So let go.
* Know that if other people have done it, you can do it. Go visit a bookstore or library�s biography section - find someone you like, that you admire. Get that book and read it. Odds are good it�s going to be a recounting of someone who had it worse that you, who struggled like hell to pull themselves to the life they wanted, the things they believed in. If they did it, so can you. Not convinced? Go buy or check out another biography.
* Every single day, do one tiny doable thing to make that future happen, and do it the very first thing. You want to write a bestselling novel? Spend 30 minutes a day writing the very first thing you do. Want to run the company you work for? Do one tiny step to towards that future before you do the rest of you job. Want to write a great app you can be proud of? Spend the first 30 minutes learning what you have to learn and doing what you have to do to make that happen. What about all the things you�re supposed to do? They can wait for all of 30 minutes while you do some tiny, but constructive, step for you.