Goals
Goal setting is one of the most important factors in personal development. Without a goal or a purpose you are going nowhere, but with a goal and a plan the world is your oyster, and you can do anything you want.
Only
2% of people have goals and are working towards them. You can easily
tell who those people are by simply walking around your neighbourhood,
they are the ones with the big houses and the smart new cars. Successful
people almost always have a goal and are on their way to achieving it,
in the timeframe they have set. People who set the biggest goals with
the longest timeframes are always the most successful people, and every
decision they make in their lives must to be in-line with their long
term goal.
The problem most people have is that they do not know what they want to achieve. Everyone wants lots of money and to be healthy and happy, but not many people actually consider and write down exactly what they want. They are unsure of what it is they actually want out of life, and they don’t know what to do next.
There are many ways and methods you can use to help decide what your goals should be, and they all centre on a few aspects of your life. We all want to be more successful financially, to be healthy and to have good relationships with our family and friends. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to help to determine your goals.
What do you enjoy doing the most?
What interests you and excites you? We tend to do our best when
we enjoy doing something. We also put our most effort into things we
like doing. With this in mind, what goals can you set for yourself that
involves things you enjoy. Do you have a special hobby that you could
turn into a business; do you enjoy a particular sport or pastime that
you could try to excel? The most successful people are often doing what
they really enjoy, the things that give them the most pleasure and
enjoyment.
If you were given a million tomorrow, what
would you change? What things would you stop doing and what parts of
your life would you do differently?
If you were to receive a large windfall of money, how would that money
change the things you do. Obviously you would be able to spend it on
material items, but what would that money enable you to do that you
can’t or don’t do today.
What have you always dreamed of doing but
never dared to attempt or thought you could do?
If you could do any job or live in any house, or be any weight, that you
always thought would never happen, what would that be, where would you
live and how much would you weight. Anyone of these things could the
right goal for you.
We need to imagine big. If you are to have a goal, why not make it a big one. You see many people around you enjoying what appears to be affluent lives with all the trappings of success, and you too could have what they have.
You must decide today, exactly what you want out of life. Deciding upon your goals may take a few minutes, if you are lucky, but most people who have never had a goal before may take considerably longer to think about exactly what they want. Once you have decided exactly what your goals are, you need to write them down.
You must have a list of your goals, in order of importance to you. The list must be one single piece of paper, and you must rewrite this list every day, so it pays for it to not be long. Each goal should take up just once sentence and must have a completion date attached to it.
You might decide that you want to double your salary and do it by the end of the year. For the majority of people this is a realistic goal. On your goals list this goal should be recorded as follows :
I earn 100,000 in my job as a *****. 31-12-2012
This
goal states that you will be earning 100,000 doing the job of your
choice on the date you have specified. You have written this goal
statement in a positive manner, giving no chance of anything negative.
All you are doing is focusing on your goal as if you have already
achieved it. In doing this you are telling your mind that your are
currently earning that figure, this tricks your subconscious mind in
believing it and in doing so your mind will go to work to make the world
around you satisfy its beliefs.
The more you believe something the more likely it is to come true. Napoleon Hill says “Whatever your mind can see and believe, you can achieve”.
You must write your goals down and commit them to paper. It must be done on paper, written in your own hand-writing. Doing this gives your goals a tangible form and brings them to life. You must also rewrite them on a daily basis. In doing this you are not only focusing on the goal itself in the present, but your are also committing the goal to your subconscious mind, informing it that you are in possession of a job which pays the salary you have defined. Each time you write and read your goals you are burning them into your subconscious mind. Finally, when you have written and read your goals you must try to attach the strongest emotion to them that you can. When you think about your big salary, you must imagine spending all that extra cash and see yourself enjoying what that money brings you.