Probability of completing a Goal

According to the American Society of Training and Development, the probability of completing a goal is:

• 10% when you hear a goal
• 25% when you consciously decide to adopt it
• 40% when you decide when you will do it
• 50% when you make a plan of how you will do it
• 65% when you commit to someone else that you will do it
• 95% when you establish a specific accountability appointment

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley
(1849 - 1902 / Gloucester / England