Make Goals Specific
September 25, 2008
Saying that you want to be rich isn’t enough. However, when you say: “I want $12,000 two years from now”, you have a specific target that you can break down into manageable goals.
You can break that down as follows: $6,000 per year, $500 per month, $125 per week, and $17.86 per day. Now work on getting $17.86 for tomorrow, and then do the same the next day, and then the next day and in two years’ time your goal will be realized.
Goals that are quantified and broken down into little pieces within their deadlines are easily reachable.
The same thing would apply to any goal you have. For example, if you want to start investing in Real estate, you will need to come up with some quantifiable goals. These can be:
· Read one book every two weeks for the next three months;
· Read seven different magazines on real estate the following month;
· Attend one seminar on the fifth month and;
· Look to buy one property in month six.
You need to put a number in your goals like read six books in three months or exercise for 30 minutes everyday. This will make your goals tangible and easy to reach because you know exactly what you need to do to reach them.
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Set Goals In Life
September 22, 2008
It is important to set goals in life. To accomplish those goals, you need a healthy supply of energy. Even the best car cannot run without fuel, so how can your body work without energy? The more energy you have, the further you can “ride” in this life. Unfortunately, the body’s energy cannot be obtained through an electric outlet or at a gas pump. Instead, it can be obtained from many different sources.
Energy can be found anywhere. For example you get more energized when inspiration strikes you, or when you resolve a problem causing you stress, or when your body spends less energy than it usually does to digest the food you consume.
Energy and its storage and usage are like money kept in the same bank account.
No matter where you obtain additional funds - paycheck, dividends on investment, or a lottery win - all of it accumulates in one place. Similarly, regardless of how you spent that money - make a purchase, donate to charity, or lose at the horse races - the funds still come out of the same place.
Similarly, when you produce energy, it is stored in one energy ‘depot’ in the body. Once you begin spending the accumulated energy, it does not matter what is the nature of this loss; stress, troubles with your partner, junk food, a workout, or anything else requiring the expenditure of energy draws it from the same source. What we do not realize is once the energy is spent negatively, on an activity you do not like, less of it is available for positive activities, like improving your business, working out, painting your house, or the like.
What is the problem? The problem is we unconsciously desire to lose energy because many of the ‘negative processes’ are associated with a feeling of pleasure, contentment, or other enjoyment, however brief. For example, we can stuff ourselves with chocolate simply because it tastes good, and we might enjoy the sugar kick. But what is the price of such indulgence?
From your school days you probably remember that every action requires energy, digestion is no exception. Chocolate is a kind of substance that requires a lot of energy to process it correctly - in other words, before our body is able to extract some ‘fuel’ from it. This is why, once the sugar rush is gone, you often want to take a nap after eating chocolate; your body expands too much energy on digestion and is now lacking it to maintain the state of wakefulness.
The result - your energy ‘account is being robbed’ while you are experiencing the pleasure. Why? Because this process of negative expansion of energy - often called “going down” or falling - really does create a certain anesthetic reaction that in turn produces a false feeling of “wellness”; after all, if we do not realize how bad we are doing, we often think that we are fine. The rude awakening in this case comes when our desire for ‘going down’ is fulfilled, and we suddenly find ourselves faced with all sorts of problems stemming from the overall lack of energy. Both your personal life and business affairs may suffer, even if you are the most amiable person when it comes to relationships and the most talented and skilled when it comes to business.
We simply do not understand that junk food, stress, and other ‘downers’ deplete our energy ‘depot’ and thus rob us of the ability to perform other necessary activities. We simply don’t see the connection even though it is the most basic scientific truth. How can bad eating habits influence your ability to perform at work? We simply do not see the connection.
Conclusion. To live a better life, you must first take care of your energy level.
You will always feel truly good and be able to do many more things that are important to you in life once you gain extra energy. Remember, it does not matter where you get energy; better eating, stress relief, better relationships, the list goes on - all of it goes directly in your body’s energy ‘depot’ where it is redirected to aid in the accomplishment of your main goals or performance of ordinary tasks.
Thus, if you need to realize yourself better because you desire to live better, pay attention to the foods you consume and the way you consume them. If you save energy each time you have a meal, you will soon accumulate enough to see significant improvements in all areas of your life that are important to you.
This is exactly what the Shock Diet is all about.
We use such tools as improving your eating habits with The Shock Diet(tm) to accelerate you in achieving your goals. If you have a goal and are ready to pursue it, it is very easy to switch to The Shock Diet(tm). No willpower needed! No hunger pangs and accompanying crankiness! Very soon after you begin The Shock Diet(tm), your body will automatically start to compare its condition before and after the diet. When the body feels that The Shock Diet(tm) brings more energy than it had before, it will automatically change your taste preferences for food.
Don’t believe me? Then answer why women crave foods rich in calcium more than they crave their favorite dishes (assuming their favorite dishes DO NOT contain large amounts of calcium) during pregnancy. Simple: the body needs calcium more than, for example, red meat, so it adjusts individual taste preferences. Under The Shock Diet(tm) system, the same occurs. Your body likes any food or meal that brings extra energy. For instance, if you liked junk food (losing energy) and started The Shock Diet(tm) (gaining of energy), in about one week your body will surely understand that the addition of energy is really helpful to accomplish your goal and will start to immediately rebuild your taste; now you will like foods that bring energy and dislike energy-draining foods that you enjoyed before. It works if you eat to live but not if you live to eat. Within a few days using the Shock Diet, you will acquire new abilities to achieve your goals and also improve your mood, relationships and life much faster.
If the purpose of your life is not to just consume junk food. In this case, The Shock Diet(tm) is for you. It is your easy-to-use 100% guaranteed energy saver. The best way to convince you of this, however, is not to bombard you with scientific facts, but to let your own body do the talking. So check The Shock Diet(tm) for yourself and listen to your body.
Can you ever be happy, if you didn’t get what you want?
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Goal Setting and Goal Getting: The BD3 Approach
September 18, 2008
Most people have no problem setting goals. At the same time, most people have a great deal of trouble getting their goals.
A specific strategy for setting and getting goals
Remember R2D2 and CP3O of Star Wars fame? Well, this strategy is called BD3, which stands for Brainstorm, Decide, Do, and Distinguish.
Brainstorm - Get yourself in a quite place where you are not likely to be disturbed. Let your mind focus on these questions:
What would you like to accomplish in the next two years?
What would you like to change?
What would you like to be?
What would you like to have?
What would you like to do?
Where do you want to go?
What would you like to contribute?
Now spend 5-10 minutes writing down whatever goals come to mind. For this exercise, there are no limits. Let the ideas come freely, without evaluation. Don’t just think about them, write them down. Remember, the weakest ink is better than the strongest memory. Come up with as many goals as you can. Now you are ready to…………
Decide - on two things:
1) Choose one goal from the brainstorming list that you most want to accomplish in the next two years, and
2) Decide it will happen. Decide that no matter what, you will get this goal sometime in the next two years.
This is a very powerful decision to make. Because change can occur in an instant, deciding that you will get this goal begins the process of change, and begins to build momentum.
To continue building momentum, now it’s time to………..
Do - all the necessary things to make it happen. One way to do this is to work backward from your deadline to now. For example, if your goal is to save a certain amount of money by the year 2006, how much will you have to save each year, each quarter, each month, each week, each day? In this way, you are able to break a rather large goal down into daily actions. Remember, once you set and commit to a goal, you can only have two results: you get the goal or you have excuses why you didn’t.
While you are taking daily action toward your goal, it’s crucial to…………
Distinguish - between what is working and what is not. Are your actions moving you closer to your goal or further away from your goal? If what you are doing is working, great for you, keep it up, and perhaps do even more. If what you are doing is not working, change your strategy. Remember, if you keep doing the same things you have always done, you’ll get the same things you have always gotten. Keep changing your strategies until you get the results you want.
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Goal Setting and Goal Getting: Here Are Some Quotes that Can Change Your Life
September 15, 2008
Here are several quotes about setting and achieving goals. My comments follow.
The weakest ink is better than the strongest memory. - John Rickenbacker
Do you want to dramatically increase the likelihood of you meeting your goals for the new year? One of the simplest yet most powerful actions you can take is to write down your goals. It’s so easy to get caught up in the busy-ness of everyday life that it then becomes all too easy to forget about your goals. I think the saying is "when you are up to your rear-end in alligators, it’s easy to forget your original intention was to drain the swamp."
Put your goals down on paper. Keep them where you will see them everyday. Doing this will prevent you from saying around this time next year, "oh yeah, I remember those………"
Goals are dreams with deadlines - Diana Scharf Hunt
Set "achievement dates" for your goals. Otherwise, we get caught in the trap of "someday." As in, someday I’ll do that.
Check out your calendar. You will find:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
What you will not find is:
someday.
So not only does someday never come, it doesn’t even exist.
Make your goals public - Dr. Philip Humbert
Go public with your goals. Share them with family and friends. It increases the likelihood of you reaching your goals in at least two ways:
1) those close to you can hold you accountable
2) those close to you can encourage you and cheer you on.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas Edison, Inventor
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance. H. Jackson Brown - A Father’s Book of Wisdom
In any endeavor worth doing, you will encounter difficulties and slips. Never, never give up and quit. Don’t die of thirst just a few feet from the water. You never know how close you may be to reaching your goal.
Each and every time you fall short, you have just learned something very powerful: you now know at least one more way that does not work. Discard it and keep going.
It really can be as simple, and as difficult, as the following Japanese proverb that says
"Fall seven times, get up eight."
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Achieve Your Desires By Scoring Goals
September 11, 2008
Do you have a desire? Silly question I know because everybody has desires, just not the same ones. Of course there are many that most of us share like those old clichés of health, wealth, and happiness. But there are some that are exclusive to a certain group of people. For example; a musician may desire to play at the Albert Hall but have no interest in constructing his own website. But enough rambling, it’s time I got to the point.
Ask any successful person how they achieved their success and the answer will invariably be along the lines of first identifying the desire, and then achieving that desire by breaking it down into a sequence of smaller steps to be accomplished along the way. Only when these smaller steps have been identified and mapped out can the journey of achievement truly begin.
Sometimes the desire can seem monumental, perhaps even appearing unattainable. But just as conquering the highest peaks, or running a marathon begins with the first step and is followed by the second step, so too does the achievement of desire. If you can visualize the outcome, you can plan a strategy to achieve it. The strategy may have to be adapted along the way, but without it you achieve little.
The secret of achieving your desires then is to identify the steps you need to take - these are your goals and you should write them down. Sort them into long term goals and short term goals, like tasks you can achieve today, within the next week, this month, this year, and so on. Then work on what you can do now to accomplish one of these goals. When it is done you can tick it off the list and move on towards achieving your desire. Take a little time to congratulate yourself too because you just scored a goal!
Tony Williams is a musician, writer, and self-confessed eBay fanatic. Follow his quest for ways of making and saving money online at http://myrichpickings.blogspot.com
Goal Setting - My Disappointing Discovery
September 8, 2008
Goal setting has become almost an industry in itself with countless books and techniques available online and in published form promising to help you achieve your most cherished desires. I have read many articles and looked at many products in the course of keeping up-to-date in my profession.
In much of the material, authors refer to a study conducted at Yale in 1953 in which the graduating class were asked if they had clear, written goals. 3% of the students said they had written goals, 13% had goals they had not written down and 84% had no clear goals.
At the class reunion 20 years later, further investigation discovered that the 3% with written goals were worth more than the other 97% put together!
A striking story indeed, and one which is commonly used to illustrate the power and necessity of writing down goals. I was planning to use it on my website and decided that I needed to know more about this fascinating study. It was a disappointment, therefore, that on looking into it more closely, a simple search on Google brought up many claims that the so-called research never in fact took place and that the source of the statistics cannot be found!
So that has blown my fabulous introduction to goal setting for my coaching and courses! It does not, however, affect my responsibility to my clients to ascertain before they embark on coaching that their goals are realistic and achievable at the same time as being challenging and exciting.
Andy Britnell is an executive coach who works with businesspeople in both the private and public sectors who wish to achieve better results. See my website at http://executive-coaching-for-business-growth/goal-setting.html for some useful goal setting strategies.
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