Achieve Your Dreams: Six Steps to Accomplish Your Goals and Resolutions

1. You need to deeply desire the goal or resolution.
2. Visualize yourself achieving the goal.
3. Make a plan for the path you need to follow to accomplish the goal.
4. Commit to achieving the goal by writing down the goal.
5. Establish times for checking your progress in your calendar system.
6. Review your overall progress regularly.

source: http://humanresources.about.com/od/strategicplanning1/a/goal_setting.htm