In order to be successful in life (not just in Sailing) you need to set goals. After all, failing to plan is planning to fail. Goal setting will be a key part of my coaching when I work with Olympic medallist and former World Champion Lijia Xu and the Chinese Radial team for the Olympic test event at WPNSA in July.

I have now been using a great little programme called Goalscape (www.goalscape.com) which is the best software for goal management, providing a graphical representation of your goals, allowing them to be time scaled and in as much detail as you could possibly wish in a very easy to use package.

Goal setting is the key theme of Be Your Own Sailing Coach and above you can see a Goalscape which I prepared for Top laser sailors using Be Your Own Sailing Coach. Now Be Your Own Sailing Coach is a jack of all trades, giving you important information on key aspects of sailing but then allowing you to go away and work on your most crucial areas. The difficult part of writing the book was deciding what to put in and what to leave out. I could easily write a whole book just on sailing tactics!

Goals have always been very important for me, for example the recent completion of the UKLA Training handbook. Now perhaps this was not done in the time scale that I had first hoped but it is now finished and it is a real and tangible benefit for those joining the UKLA.

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