You cannot pick up a book or
participate in a training program today without the author or
instructor teaching the power of goal setting. Yet, most people
today spend more time planning a two-week vacation than planning
their lives by setting goals. It's been said that achieving
goals is not a problem--it's SETTING goals that is the problem.
People just don't do it. They leave their lives to chance...and
usually end up broke by the time they reach retirement.
I thought that since this is such an
important ingredient for developing a successful network
marketing business, this was a good time to share with you some
of the greatest thoughts about goal setting that I've discovered
over the years.
So, here goes...The Top 10 Best
Ideas For Setting Goals:
1. Make A List Of
Your Values
What's really important to you? Your
family? Your religion? Your leisure time? Your hobbies? Decide
on what your most important values in life are and then make
sure that the goals you set are designed to include and enhance
them.
2. Begin With The
End In Mind
Tom Watson, the founder of IBM was
once asked what he attributed the phenomenal success of IBM to
and he said it was three things:
The first thing was that he created a very clear image in his
mind of what he wanted his company to look like when it was
done. He then asked himself how would a company like that have
to act on a day-to-day basis. And then in the very beginning of
building his company, he began to act that way.
3. Project Yourself
Into The Future
The late, great Earl Nightingale
created a whole new industry (self-improvement) after a 20-year
study on what made people successful. The bottom-line result of
his research was simply, "We Become What We Think About."
Whatever thoughts dominate our minds
most of the time are what we become. That's why goal setting is
so critical in achieving success because it keeps us focused on
what's really important to us. He then said that the easiest way
to reach our goals is to pretend that we had ALREADY achieved
our goals.
That is, begin to walk, talk and act
as though we are already experiencing the success we seek. Then,
those things will come to us naturally through the power of the
subconscious mind.
4. Write Down The 10
Things You Want This Year
By making a list of the things that
are important to you, you begin to create images in your mind.
It's been said that your mind will actually create chaos if
necessary to make images become a reality. Because of this, the
list of ten things will probably result in you achieving at
least eight of them within the year.
5. Create Your Storyboard
Get a piece of poster board and
attach it to a wall in your office or home where you will see it
often. As you go through magazines, brochures, etc. and you see
the pictures of the things you want, cut them out and glue them
to your storyboard.
In other words, make yourself a
collage of the goals that excite you...knowing full well that as
you look at them everyday, they will soon be yours.
6. The Three Most
Important Things
Decide on three things that you want
to achieve before you die. Then work backwards listing three
things you want in the next twenty years, ten years, five years,
this year, this month, this week and finally, the three most
important things you want to accomplish today.
7. Ask Yourself Good
Questions
As you think about your goals,
instead of WISHING for them to come true, ask yourself HOW and
WHAT CAN YOU DO to make them come true. The subconscious mind
will respond to your questions far greater than just making
statements or making wishes.
8. Focus On One
Project At A Time
One of the greatest mistakes people
make in setting goals is trying to work on too many things at
one time. There is tremendous power in giving laser beam focused
attention to just one idea, one project or one objective at a
time.
9. Write Out An
"Ideal Scenario"
Pretend that you are a newspaper
reporter that has just finished an interview about the
outstanding success that you've achieved and the article is now
in the newspaper. How would it read? What would be the headline?
Write the article yourself, projecting yourself into the future
as though it had already happened. Describe the activities of
your daily routine now that are very successful. Don't forget
the headline. (Example: "Jane Doe Wins Top Network Marketing
Award Of The Decade.")
10. Pray & Meditate
As you get into bed each evening,
think about your goal before you drop off to sleep. Get a very
clear colorful image in your mind of seeing yourself doing the
things you'll be doing after you've reached your major goal.
(Remember to include your values.) And then begin to ask and
demand for these things through meditation and prayer. **
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