Goals Get You Going By Les Brown

Goals Get You Going by Les Brown

Goals give you a purpose for taking life on. People who live without goals have no purpose and it is obvious even in their body language. They are on permanent idle, they slouch, they list from side to side. Their conversations dawdle. They telephone you: “Hey, I’m just calling. I wasn’t doing anything, so I thought I’d call you.” Well, don’t call ME. I’VE got things to do.

Many people just muddle through life. They don’t read informational material, they don’t even pay attention when they WATCH television. If you ask them what they are watching, they mumblemouth, “Nothin’, I’m just lookin’.”

What are your goals for your career? For your relationships? For your spiritual life? Develop a schedule for the next month, the next six months, the next year, five years and ten years. Write it all out.

Let’s take one of the most common goals: You want to make more money. If that is your goal, then take some practical steps toward realizing it.

First, determine specifically how much money you want to make. Then, double that amount and make THAT your goal. Even if you don’t reach the higher amount, you will probably still find yourself making more than your original goal.

Second, decide the amount of energy you are willing to expend to reach your goal. How many hours are you willing to work a day? How many jobs are you willing to hold down? What sort of work are you willing to do?

A third step in this process is to develop a practical plan of action and get started immediately. Chart out where you want to be in relation to your goal in the next month, six months, one year, five years and ten years. Get started today. Go apply for that second job NOW! Go enroll in that career training program NOW! Ask for that raise NOW!

And finally, make sure that you have all of this written down so that you can review it every morning and every night and envision yourself taking these steps, DOING THEM and SUCCEEDING!

—Les Brown

Reproduced with permission from the Ron White Ezine. To subscribe to Ron White's Ezine, go to http://www.MemoryInAMonth.com Copyright 2009 All rights reserved worldwide.

Goal Setting

Goal Setting

Happy New Year! For most people, this is the time for making changes and choices to improve their lives. However, approximately 80% of people are unable to follow through with their newly-set goals. Use the following simple steps to help you see the change you want to make in your life this year:

1. S.M.A.R.T Goals

· Specific – Be very specific when you set a goal and make sure that it is something that you want badly enough to motivate you to do whatever it ethically takes to achieve it. This includes investing in yourself to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills. When you are specific, it forces you into action, manages your priorities and time to achieve the results that you expect.

· Measurable – Plan and start your action steps whether it’s by hours, weeks, dollars, or whatever. Your goal should be measurable so that you can see exactly how much you are advancing.

· Attainable – Your goal should stretch you and take you out of your comfort zone while being attainable.

· Realistic – Attainable goes hand in hand with being realistic. To lose 50 lbs. in 6-12 months is realistic. Be honest with yourself in your planning and evaluation.

· Timeline – Have a timeline or time frame as to when you want to achieve your goal. When there’s a timeline of beginning and end, you are more likely to be able to break it down into actions and work more diligently without procrastination.

2. Break down your goal into long and short term goals. Then, work on one goal at a time with determination and intense focus till that goal is achieved.

3. Write down and visualize your goal. To do this, use all of your senses and get specific. Imagine that you have already achieved your goal and write down what you see and feel. If you can visualize it, you can create it.

4. Find a buddy, friend, coach, or a trainer to work with you by not only supporting your, but by holding you accountable as well.

5. List all of the benefits you will enjoy and how your life will change once you achieve your goal.

Whatever your goal, plan how you are going to reward yourself once you achieved it. To your success!

Constance Copyrighted2010

What Do You Want

What Do You Want? by Jack Canfield
People who have achieved their goals knew what they wanted in the first place. They decided what to go after, and they went after it. One of the most compelling reasons why people do not get what they want is that they never decided what they wanted! They never defined the desires of their hearts in complete detail.

Why don’t you know what you want? Why isn’t it spelled out in detail in your mind? Most likely, it is because you have lost touch with the desires of your heart. You were probably taught that you couldn’t have whatever you wanted. You were probably taught that it was more important to do what made other people happy. Seeking your happiness was considered selfish, so you learned not to define your happiness. Now, you find yourself completely unaware of what your preferences are, how you really want to live your life, and what your goals are for your life.

Take back your life! Start honoring your preferences, no matter how small they seem. Even if you don’t know what you prefer, pretend you do, and make a decision. You’ll be more keenly aware of whether that decision made you happy or not and you will learn your preferences!

Commit to this new belief: You deserve to have everything exactly the way you want it. Make it a priority to begin to know your wants and desires. Start simple by making a list of things you want to do and things you want to have. Keep writing until you find some of your core values, such as wanting to have loving relationships, to make a difference in your world or to be financially secure.

Think of what you love to do with your time. Write down several things that you love to do, and then make a list of all the ways you can think of to be making a living doing those things. Create a detailed description of the vision you have for your ideal life. Don’t limit yourself. Dream as big as you possibly can from your perspective right now.

In detail, what is going on in the financial area of your life? How much money do you make? How much do you have in savings and investments? What about your real estate? What kind of house or houses do you own? Create detailed visions of all the major areas of your life, your ideal career, your recreation time, your ideal body and physical health, your relationships with family and friends, your spiritual life, and the community in which you live. Create and write down your ideal vision for each area and review it on a daily basis.

All you have to do at this point is clarify your vision to yourself. Don’t worry about how it will happen right now. Once you have a clear picture of what you want going through your mind, the steps and opportunities to get it will appear. When you have completed your ideal vision of your life, share it with a supportive friend. Don’t let anyone talk you out of it! More than likely, they want the same thing for themselves but believe it’s impossible. Deciding what you want is the first step to getting what you want. Don’t put off creating your vision!

Reproduced with permission from Jim Rohn's Weekly Newsletter

Thankfulness

With Thanksgiving celebrated in the U.S., it is perfect time to reflect and count all your blessings – great or small:
For the journey in business or personal life that have brought you this far
For friends the support and helped you
For family that you can enjoy and spend time with
For all your customers you have so far
For the opportunities that come your way
For all that you have

Be grateful...

17 Principles Of Personal Achievement by Napoleon Hill

For most of his life, Napoleon Hill lived with the conviction that every failure carried with it the seed of equivalent advantage. Here are his 17 principles for extraordinary achievement.

Lesson 1: Definiteness of Purpose
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life.

Lesson 2: Mastermind Alliance
The Mastermind principle consists of an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective. Success does not come without the cooperation of others.

Lesson 3: Applied Faith
Faith is a state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans and purposes may be translated into their physical or financial equivalent.

Lesson 4: Going the Extra Mile
Going the extra mile is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.

Lesson 5: Pleasing Personality
Personality is the sum total of one’s mental, spiritual and physical traits and habits that distinguish one from all others. It is the factor that determines whether one is liked or disliked by others.

Lesson 6: Personal Initiative
Personal initiative is the power that inspires the completion of that which one begins. It is the power that starts all action. No person is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own.

Lesson 7: Positive Mental Attitude
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Lesson 8: Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is faith in action. It is the intense emotion known as burning desire. It comes from within, although it radiates outwardly in the expression of one’s voice and countenance.

Lesson 9: Self-Discipline
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of thought. If you do not control your thoughts, you cannot control your needs. Self-discipline calls for a balancing of the emotions of your heart with the reasoning faculty of your head.

Lesson 10: Accurate Thinking
The power of thought is the most dangerous or the most beneficial power available to man, depending on how it is used.

Lesson 11: Controlled Attention
Controlled attention leads to mastery in any type of human endeavor, because it enables one to focus the powers of his mind upon the attainment of a definite objective and to keep it so directed at will.

Lesson 12: Teamwork
Teamwork is harmonious cooperation that is willing, voluntary and free. Whenever the spirit of teamwork is the dominating influence in business or industry, success is inevitable. Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset that you can acquire in proportion to your giving.

Lesson 13: Adversity & Defeat
Individual success usually is in exact proportion of the scope of the defeat the individual has experienced and mastered. Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise.

Lesson 14: Creative Vision
Creative vision is developed by the free and fearless use of one’s imagination. It is not a miraculous quality with which one is gifted or is not gifted at birth.

Lesson 15: Health
Sound health begins with a sound health consciousness, just as financial success begins with a prosperity consciousness.

Lesson 16: Budgeting Time & Money
Time and money are precious resources, and few people striving for success ever believe they possess either one in excess.

Lesson 17: Habits
Developing and establishing positive habits leads to peace of mind, health and financial security. You are where you are because of your established habits and thoughts and deeds.

—Napoleon Hill

WHAT IS THE SECRET OF BEING SUCCESSFUL?

Imagine hearing your name being announced over the loudspeakers to step forward onto the stage. You hear the deafening roar of approval from the crowd and as you look out to the audience, they are standing in ovation and clapping in recognition of your achievement. You feel all the pride and honour that accompanies this moment. You have taken the steps, put in years of commitment, perseverance, determination and journeyed to this very moment: You have received a life time achievement award! What a tremendous feeling!

Have you ever wondered why some people are successful and some are not? Why some seem to have the midas touch in whatever they do or put their hands on? Yet, at the same time, there are people still struggling to make it to the next day or living pay cheque to pay cheque.

Have you ever asked yourself these questions:

What is success?
What is the secret of being successful?
What is my definition of success?
Is it having lots of money? A new car? A big house?
Who can be successful?
Can anyone be successful?
What does it take to be successful?
Am I willing to do whatever it takes to be successful?

Success Is a Journey

Success is a journey and a process that you take, step by step, everyday, in little areas. As the saying goes, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". If you want to be successful, the first step is getting started by planning and preparing for what you want. The important thing is that you identify your innermost of deepest desire. It is this desire which will be the driving force to propel you forward, keep you focused and engaged in the discipline of moving you closer to your ultimate goal. Most people dislike the word "discipline" as if somehow it's a punishment. However, it is through self discipline that one can make real progress towards success. It is in doing the things that most people refuse to do or are too lazy to do that you will begin to see yourself succeed. Success is managing your own life, your time, your finances, your family, involving all aspects of your mental, emotion, spiritual and physical being.

Success requires a combination of putting forth your best effort, desire, time, faith, commitment, endurance and determination. Yes, anyone can be successful. A poor man can be wealthy! "Is there a secret to be successful", you may ask? Indeed, there is! Earl Nightingale called it the "Strangest Secret". It's strange because it's so simple and yet most people aren't getting it. The secret is that you become what you think about. It's not about trying to find which formula that works, but rather if you are willing to work on the formula. Determine now to change how you think. Determine that you will from now on think and focus on your goals for success, and not on your past failures.

Perception

Imagine yourself seeing all your friends partying their lives away while you are taking time to study, to learn and to acquire what it takes to become successful. It is not a fair picture, isn't it? Your perception might be that it simply isn't fair that you are working while everyone else is enjoying themselves. However, time will tell. While they are still trying to find money for their next party, or to make it through another day, you will be enjoying or reaping the work of your hands. That is perception: sowing what you reap. Your perception of success is long term and see forward as to how your actions today will affect your future success.

Good habits can be learned but it is all in the choices that you make. Success is taking the time to acquire the knowledge and skills to be an expert in your job or business. Success requires you to put in the time and effort necessary to be the best you can be. Remember: what you focus on expands. If you do what others don't do, you are able to do what others can't do for the rest of your life. No one can change you but you have got to want to change and must take action to do so.

Service to Others

Success is doing and giving your best, utilizing your strengths while improving your weaknesses. Success is making the world a better place wherever you are as you help others to become all that they can be! Successful people work to discover and develop their talents and use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves. If you want to be successful in anything, you must decide to serve others. Self serving attitudes in business will not last.

Success is taking small steps to work continually from inside out. It is not just about external possessions, but about building a foundation of internal values that spill over to the external. When that internal foundation is built, then all other areas will fall into place.

Actions

1) Take a moment to ask yourself what you passion is. What do you love doing? What is your talent? What do you want in life? If you don't know what you want in life, you will end up living someone else's life.

2) What is your goal - what do you want to achieve?

3) What are you willing to give up and willing to work on in order to be successful?

4) What steps do you need to take each day to work towards your goals and dreams?

5) How can you use your talent, you gift for others?