A final plea to start thinking about setting your goals for the year ahead is being made ahead of the final day, December 31st, of Twixtmas 2009. The period between Christmas and New Year provides an ideal time to reflect, review and clarify what you want to aim for in the next twelve month says the Flexible Thinking Forum, instigators of the Twixtmas celebrations. By setting your goals down, ideally by writing them, provides a very effective tool for enabling you to make them happen. The act of writing crystallizes the question in your mind, makes your goal more explicit, therefore increasing the likelihood of it being a well defined question. By writing your goal down, it makes you more accountable (even more so if you share it with others.) Regularly checking and reviewing your goal during the course of the year provides you with a discipline to bring your goals to the front of your mind, chart your progress, and take appropriate corrective action. Further advice on goal setting and personal development can be found on the Twixtmas campaign web site – www.twixtmas.com