Keep your life on track

you have to know what your target is. In any given circumstance you have to know what your goals are before you set off to complete them. 

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice comes to a cross roads and is trying to figure out which path to take. Enter the Cheshire Cat, who suggests he could help her on her way.
"Which way should I take" asks Alice,
"Well, that depends where you want to go" He replies.
"Well, it doesn't really matter to me" says Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which path you take!" Advises the cat.

So often I hear people saying how they fail to do something, yet when asked they find it troubling to describe what success is. Always know what your goal is, and how you know when you reach it, the better defined it is the better. Work towards a general goal will never get it done, and not knowing exactly what it is will never give you the tools to complete it.

Putting too much time into making a decision is never good, you just end up standing in the same place. Not making a decision is a refusal to move forward and it opens up space for others to make the decision for you, which as easy as it will make things for you it is NOT what you want.
Quick decisions will send you forward, and even if it's not the right decision you will have realized that path is wrong and you will have learned from your mistakes.
So many people fear making the wrong decision. It is a fear that was built into us ever since we were young kids. But it really is not all that terrible making a bad decision, life goes on and we get many more opportunities in the future. We shouldn't beat ourselves up so much over bad decisions we've made, only focus on getting it right the next time and learning the lesson that needed to be learned.
It has actually been scientifically demonstrated that making quick decisions tend to bring out the right decisions, and that computer less data actually helps make a good decision rather than negate our thinking ability. Just leave it up to your subconscious mind and let your conscious mind let loose it's worries.

This is a switch from the "can't do" attitude to the "can do" attitude. Most people will focus on the elements blocking them from their goals. While many self help gurus advise to face these barriers and see what you can do to get rid of them, I advise you to focus not on what you can't do at the moment, but at what you can be doing with the resources you have and with the time that you have instead of waisting it.
So often do people end up doing nothing because they fall under the mentality of "I can't do anything right now" when they could be doing something, even if it is not the biggest thing. When you have a goal, but you can't do anything about it at the moment use your time to do a side project until you do have the time or resources to focus on your original goal. Your time is precious, use it wisely. You shouldn't need me to tell you that.

People are not meant to multitask, juggling more than one task at a time will make you end up completing none of them. When you keep things in order they tend to get done quicker. When you are working on a task focus on it alone until you are ready to move on to the next. Attempting to focus on more than one task at a time will only stress you without getting the job done.

Waiting is a bad habit, the worst of them all. So often will you hear people saying that they are "waiting for the right moment to take action". Waiting is a habit and once you get into it it is very hard to get out of and you'll end up with the right moment passing you by without you even raising a finger. While this present moment might really not be the right time to take action you can put yourself into the habit of taking action and thus preparing yourself for the right moment of taking action.