Goal Setting for Winners!
January 01, 2007 - Categories:
Goal Setting
Are your resolutions for this year
more or less the same as those you had last year? If so, then you
may wish to examine your goal getting
strategies!
To paraphrase Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, who said he didn’t complain about making $90,000 when his goal was $100,000… especially since he had made only $10,000 the year before!
Any one who has seriously sat down to itemize their goals, write them down, and review them with consistency will tell you that goal setting works. Success does not happen by accident just as you would not “accidentally” aquire a law degree. Self Improvement guru Tony Robbins likes to say that “success leaves clues”.
But since goal setting is not “required” of you by anyone, most people simply don’t bother to engage in effective goal setting. For this reason, it is said that two percent of people who master the art of goal setting control over 90% of the world’s wealth. You are responsible for rowing your own canoe. Do you want to be a “two percenter,” or would you rather passively let life pass you buy as you watch television and live paycheck to paycheck?
To paraphrase Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, who said he didn’t complain about making $90,000 when his goal was $100,000… especially since he had made only $10,000 the year before!
Any one who has seriously sat down to itemize their goals, write them down, and review them with consistency will tell you that goal setting works. Success does not happen by accident just as you would not “accidentally” aquire a law degree. Self Improvement guru Tony Robbins likes to say that “success leaves clues”.
But since goal setting is not “required” of you by anyone, most people simply don’t bother to engage in effective goal setting. For this reason, it is said that two percent of people who master the art of goal setting control over 90% of the world’s wealth. You are responsible for rowing your own canoe. Do you want to be a “two percenter,” or would you rather passively let life pass you buy as you watch television and live paycheck to paycheck?
The first step in successful goal setting is to give yourself some targets. What kind of symbols can you create in your mind to represent the things you want to achieve? If you can focus your mind on what you wish to manifest, with consistency, the universe will respond to your intention by letting it manifest at the perfect time in the perfect way. This is a core principal of the book/movieThe Secret that seems to be taking the world by storm. By the way, the actual manifestation of what you hold in mind will probably be in a completely different way than you would expect, but it will likely be profoundly better.
So think about what you would like to achieve this year in terms of your business, investments, relationships, health, and spiritual pursuits. Your goals must be measurable so that you will know when they have been achieved. If the goals you pick are good, you’ll feel excited to think about what it will be like to experience these achievements. On the same note, you should make your goals challenging enough that it scares you a bit. Remember, if you only ask for little, that’s probably all you’ll get. The universe has unlimited abundance, so plan your life accordingly.
Then the steps to follow are simple….
1) Put your goals in writing.
2) Post them where you will see them every day.
3) Spend 5-10 minutes daily visualizing or imagining your goals as if they were already true.
Step three is actually a method of basic self-hypnosis. All gold medal Olympic athletes do it, and you may wish to consider it as well.
All great things begin with an idea. What you hold in mind tends to manifest when the conditions are right, and you never know how quickly that may happen. So get to it! ☺