Overall, if you find that your financial goals are really hard to achieve, and you are not advancing on your progress to achieve or attain them, every now and then, try to assess yourself, your determination and the potential effectiveness of the financial goals you have set. Starting all over again and shifting into more practical and effective financial goals, even if it means going through the whole process of goal setting once again, would in the end, prove to be very beneficial. But you might have probably proven that it is an otherwise excruciating and ardent activity. Thus, it has to be effective. Goal setting is easy, but the steps and processes to make the goals effective and the measures to achieve these goals are the part of the idea that makes the concept hard and tough. Having said this, professional goal setting, in its very nature, is giving emphasis on enhancing the future performance level of the individual or group. Of course, it is presumed that the group or the individual had prior experience on the process of goal setting of this nature. If there is no familiarity with the process, the goal setting exercise is even more important. When arranging your schedule, make sure that the set of activities related to attaining the goals would not conflict with any other important appointments or activities. Make a time table so no deadlines, appointments or important dates would be forgotten or missed out. That could be a great start up to effective time management. Or maybe you're into belief that nothing is happening with professionally; you're stuck with a profession that is really at variance with what you want. If this is so, then you may have missed the process of professional goal setting. You need to undergo with one now. There is also a possibility that you're having a hard time assessing whether the company you're working with, or even your personal career, is not working as it should be. And if it is the first step of thinking, usually the "warm-up" period that is committed into writing, then the problem is in the making. This is so because goals can be easily lost in myriad of letters in written form. There are even instances that if someone is tired, simply looking at several pages of paper can be a stressful exercise.