Today, we have the second in a series of vidoes on how best to set and achieve your goals and objectives. This series will build over the next few weeks. During this series, you can access previous videos, using the links below:

Today's tip isn't that quick! It requires a little reflection on your part - something that we should all devote time to fairly regularly. In ordinary everyday life, we are more comfortable doing the mundane stuff that gives us the impression that we're busy and important. Better again if something urgent (but not important) arises - we can feel like a hero for sorting something out that we probably should have ignored in the first place.

You have big goals you want to achieve - if you don't, then you're just treading water and wasting space. Those big goals don't get achieved unless you do things that are naturally uncomfortable. These are the kind of things that fall into the category "don't do today what you can put off to tomorrow!" And tomorrow never comes.

Are your big goals top of mind? Do you know what you need to do to move them along? Have you deliberately chosen to do one of those things today?

There's an old adage, originally from the legal world, that "the devil is in the detail". But, if lack of attention to a contract's small print will get you into trouble, the same holds for everyday life. Lack of attention to detail is the mother of all problems and the author of all failure.

Attention to detail is the key to all success. But attention to what exactly? I could attentively pick my toe nails but that won't get me far (unless I'm an athlete whose toes are very important!). Attention needs to be directed by intention. Everything that you do - I mean everything - should have an intention behind it: even if you're only brushing your teeth attentively with the intention of being more focused.

However, we all have big intentions. Often, we call them goals or objectives. Ideally, those goals need to be described to our subconscious mind in a way in which it can embrace them - that's what the above video series is about. All to often, the ordinary person's goals are dreams or wishes. If that is all they are, that is all they will remain. A goal must be something that you intend to achieve, something that you expect to achieve. Intention and expectation are subconscious things - so keep watching the videos!

However, once you have subconsciously embraced your intention, once you believe that it's doable, it then has to be done - that's what doable means! And that means that, day-to-day, the small things that lead to the big achievements have to be done. You must discipline your mind to pay enough attention to remember, during the course of an ordinary day, that you've more important things that must be done. And, then, when you do what needs to be done, it must be done with an extraordinary amount of attention. Extraordinary means out of the ordinary - nobody's asking you to be a superhero. That means you need to be an expert in paying attention - and that's why I keep banging on about the need to meditate: meditation enables you be attentive.

Intention on its own is daydreaming. Attention on its own is, at best, the ability to get done something that, perhaps, you shouldn't be doing at all. Intention plus attention equals the reality that you want to achieve.