Here is a quick reminder of your 10 step Blue-print to Goal Setting:
- Write down your goals
- Where should you be half way?
- Create a deadline for your accomplishment
- Write your goal in the Present
- Write your goal in the Positive
- Create a goal YOU desire
- Make a measure if you are on track.What are the results at midpoint
- Be as specific to what you want to achieve
- Write your goal with emotion. Feel the sucess
- What is being in the achievement like. Write it down
First and foremost what do you want? What do you want so badly that you are willing to exchange the rest of your days for?
What do you love so much that you can’t live without? Well, then WRITE it down and start telling others that you are accomplishing it!
Did you know a Harvard study found that only 3% of the population even writes down their goals! No wonder so many people don’t accomplish what they want! They don’t have a clear idea of what it is they want to accomplish! 3%! --that’s not a lot! Think how much more effective you will be when you start writing down your goals!
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca
In athletics we not only write down what we want to accomplish we plaster it all over our facilities and our printed material. Why do we do this? We want to remind everyone involved with the program to keep their noses pointed in the same direction. There is no doubt where we are heading!
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." - Tom Landry
I encourage you to take a trip to your most successful local collegiate team. If you walk around the athletic facility (Intercollegiate weight room) I guarantee it won’t take you long to find where this team wants to go in the coming year!
You see, when you write it down on a piece of paper you are making it concrete! You are not only creating direction you are creating clarity. You are now telling your subconscious mind what is important to you.
By writing it down, you are directing your subconscious mind to begin to work for you! Setting your target gives your subconscious mind something to focus on, which is the first stage in you achieving your goals!
I know what you are saying…”How can writing something down get me to accomplish what I want?” It doesn’t. Now your saying “I am really confused.” Right!
Well, here is what happens. Have you ever thought of buying a new car? You would see a few of those specific cars on the road. But when you actually committed to buying the car or actually bought the car something changed. Now everyone and their mother were out on the road driving the same car!
How is this possible? You see, once you identify the importance of something, your subconscious mind will begin to scan your environment to make you aware of it. Thus helping you enjoy or accomplish it!
Well here is why; When something is important to you your subconscious mind begins to consciously identify these things. More specifically your Reticular Activating System is constantly searching for things that are important to you and when it identifies something that will help you accomplish your goal then it will make it know consciously. It is your natural goal seeking mechanism!
So go ahead and jump-start your goal seeking mechanism and start getting your subconscious mind working for you. Pull out a piece of paper and start your target practice!!!
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Chinese Proverb
To you hitting your mark!
Tim
Why you must Dream
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau - Walden, or Life in the Woods
Comittment Moves the world
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.'" --W.H. Murray, of the Scottish Himalayan Expedition
"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." --Robert L. Schwartz
"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty." --William J. Bennett - The Book of Virtues
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." --Benjamin Mays
"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own." --Mark Victor Hansen