I will be perfectly truthful here and honestly declare that my track record of achieving goals set at the beginning of years is generally poor. Yeah, as poor as Liverpool’s shambolic defence. For the past 3 decades of my life, I probably have sat down for at least 5-6 times contemplating the targets I should be achieving in the year ahead. And by the end of the year, more likely than not, I could take the whole list and repeat it for the following year. Urgh… But luckily for me, I have managed to break this vicious cycle during the past year as I can safely say that 70% of the targets I set for myself in 2014 were met. A combination of some public accountability, more free time without a 40 hour work week and the much lauded SMART description probably did the trick. So with some positive experience under my ......