There is a direct link between planning and achievement. Majority of successful people use planning as a first step to succeed. They know exactly what they want; they know precisely what they want to achieve, they know where they are going and what they are going to do.

They have goals that have driven them to succeed in their chosen field.

To begin with goal personal planning and setting for success, it is important to take your time and think about where you want to go in life, what you want to achieve. Take a piece of a paper and write down what you want to have or achieve in the future on the left side of it. Do not stop until you get at least five, ten or more goals in your list. It is important to view all aspects of achievement.
 

The Term success. differs in everyone’s aspect. For some it may mean money while others take success as winning friends and influencing people. It is very important to first analyze success and what does it mean to you. It is essential to understand the importance of your goal. Merely walking on other people s expectation about yourself is not going to make you achieve success. You should know what you want out of life and how to get it. State each of your goals as a positive statement. Be specific, use dates and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you have several goals, give each a priority. Write them down where you can regularly read them to yourself. Setting and tracking goals is an important step in achieving success.

To sum it all a good planning requires the following pre-requisites:

· Vision

· Purpose

· Scope

· Goals and Objectives

In other words to mark an ambition in a students life it is important to see the objective or the goal. Then on the based of that planning needs to be done as to how to achieve that goal. This way, success will never be far from you.