Too much partying and not enough sleep and you could be struggling at work.

Too much food and not enough exercise and you will end up overweight and unfit.

If you spend all the money that you earn and don't think about the future, then what happens when the unthinkable occurs and you have nothing left over to cope with the problem....and it could be a good problem, like you need a new outfit to go to a "do" you've been invited to. It doesn't have to mean that your boiler has just blown up....althought that did happen to me not so long back.

Goal setting means having an eye on the long term - but making sure that your daily decisions match the long term outcome.....otherwise you may end up with egg on your face as you struggle with the sad fact that you are all bluff and bluster and unable to stick to anything. So it is no good saying that you want to run a marathon, if your preferred mode of exercise is lifting a glass of beer with your mates...can you imagine rocking up to the starting line, beer gut still evident. How long do you think it would be before someone took you to one side and said "sir are you sure you want to do this?"

Of course there may be times when your long term goal is delusional...there is no way you are gong to be a size 6 by christmas, especially if you are a size 16 now... Or you are not going to win a million dollars if you don't enter the competitions to give you a chance to do so. Nor are you going to weigh less if you continue to eat as much as you ever did. And by delusional I mean, your goal, your vision if you like does not match your actions - in any way shape or form. In fact they are usually polar opposites.

So - don't say one thing, and do something else....your body knows, yourmind knows evem faster. And besides - who are you trying to kid exactly?