A Simple Trick To Make Your Goals Real!
- Date: 2009-09-25 - Word Count: 641
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Setting goals is one of the most effective and easiest ways to improve your health, fast forward your career, and enhance your wealth. It's been preached, practiced, and perfected by personal development motivators for decades.
Yet if you believe that the only thing you need to set your goals and achieve your goals is paper and a pencil, you're setting yourself up for a letdown. You goal setting effort must be done the right way in order to give yourself a solid chance of reaching your goals.
Your goal setting process should consist of the following:
Formulate specific goals and a plan of action to achieve those goals
Define precise measurable outcomes for all your goals
Set deadlines for achieving your goals
Once you adhere to those goal setting steps, you're on the right track.
But, I'm here to tell you that one simple tweak - something that takes mere seconds - can drive those goals home so you can practically check them off BEFORE they're done.
What is this magic elixir Tiger Woods counts on to launch himself to another dimension of competitiveness. It's what Arnold Schwarzenegger used both as an athlete and as a politician. It's what Walt Disney, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Michael Jordan, Winston Churchill, Beethoven, Alexander Graham Bell, and countless more leaders and champions have used. It's visualization.
You've probably had experience with visualization. Maybe it was on the golf course or tennis courts just before you sunk a vital putt or won the set. Maybe it was delivered a key presentation.
That same uncanny power that can enhance your skill or improve your image can also help you achieve your personal and professional goals. After all, what are goals but a way to tell yourself what you can and will do.
Now imagine how much more effective it would be to Show yourself what you can and will do. That's what you are doing by utilizing the power of visualization.
Let me demonstrate how it can work first with the following example:
On December 31st, after the last fireworks have exploded, you sit down and write your goals for the next year. You hesitate to call them resolutions, so you refer to them as goals. You write that you will lose a number of pounds by this time next year. Weeks one through three pass and you're doing great. You're looking at your goal every morning, eating well, and exercising.
Then a few more weeks pass and temptations along with time constraints arise. Now, the number you look at every morning on that piece of paper is just that - a number. You give up on that number and your goals. That's about the time people abandon their goals. A great effort, but you fall short.
Now imagine that same scenario, yet every morning after you look at your goal weight, you close your eyes to visualize yourself coming into work and hearing compliments. You picture yourself in your new envious body on the beach. You visualize getting on the scale and seeing a significant weight loss. You see yourself at the doctor's office as she shows you what a difference it's made in your health.
And you do this every day - each visualization building on the last until it's achieved. That's what visualizing can do. You're no longer focused on a number, a goal - you're focused on the visualization of your future you. It becomes almost real. Until it finally does become real.
The human mind is incredible and should be at the center of any future goal setting. A piece of paper can only motivate and inspire so much. But your mind can steer your vision and your results. Make sure visualization is a part of your goal setting plan.
Go ahead and lock in your future goals by downloading a free 24-page Goal Setting eBook called Goal Setting Mastery
Yet if you believe that the only thing you need to set your goals and achieve your goals is paper and a pencil, you're setting yourself up for a letdown. You goal setting effort must be done the right way in order to give yourself a solid chance of reaching your goals.
Your goal setting process should consist of the following:
Formulate specific goals and a plan of action to achieve those goals
Define precise measurable outcomes for all your goals
Set deadlines for achieving your goals
Once you adhere to those goal setting steps, you're on the right track.
But, I'm here to tell you that one simple tweak - something that takes mere seconds - can drive those goals home so you can practically check them off BEFORE they're done.
What is this magic elixir Tiger Woods counts on to launch himself to another dimension of competitiveness. It's what Arnold Schwarzenegger used both as an athlete and as a politician. It's what Walt Disney, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Michael Jordan, Winston Churchill, Beethoven, Alexander Graham Bell, and countless more leaders and champions have used. It's visualization.
You've probably had experience with visualization. Maybe it was on the golf course or tennis courts just before you sunk a vital putt or won the set. Maybe it was delivered a key presentation.
That same uncanny power that can enhance your skill or improve your image can also help you achieve your personal and professional goals. After all, what are goals but a way to tell yourself what you can and will do.
Now imagine how much more effective it would be to Show yourself what you can and will do. That's what you are doing by utilizing the power of visualization.
Let me demonstrate how it can work first with the following example:
On December 31st, after the last fireworks have exploded, you sit down and write your goals for the next year. You hesitate to call them resolutions, so you refer to them as goals. You write that you will lose a number of pounds by this time next year. Weeks one through three pass and you're doing great. You're looking at your goal every morning, eating well, and exercising.
Then a few more weeks pass and temptations along with time constraints arise. Now, the number you look at every morning on that piece of paper is just that - a number. You give up on that number and your goals. That's about the time people abandon their goals. A great effort, but you fall short.
Now imagine that same scenario, yet every morning after you look at your goal weight, you close your eyes to visualize yourself coming into work and hearing compliments. You picture yourself in your new envious body on the beach. You visualize getting on the scale and seeing a significant weight loss. You see yourself at the doctor's office as she shows you what a difference it's made in your health.
And you do this every day - each visualization building on the last until it's achieved. That's what visualizing can do. You're no longer focused on a number, a goal - you're focused on the visualization of your future you. It becomes almost real. Until it finally does become real.
The human mind is incredible and should be at the center of any future goal setting. A piece of paper can only motivate and inspire so much. But your mind can steer your vision and your results. Make sure visualization is a part of your goal setting plan.
Go ahead and lock in your future goals by downloading a free 24-page Goal Setting eBook called Goal Setting Mastery
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