Goal Setting

Before you start putting your Goals together, you need to shift your Paradigm.

Stop saying to yourself: “What’s wrong with me? Oh, I don’t know if I will succeed….” The self-talk always guides us. We programme ourselves. We talk ourselves into failure or success.

So start right now with telling yourself how amazing and clever you are, how exciting it will be to set your new Goals, to realise your Dream, and this exercise will change your life and life of your beloved ones!

All powerful and successful people are Goal orientated. They are focused on achieving their Goals every single day.

“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies

and puts you to work digging gold.”

William Moulton Marsden

Step 1.          Create a very strong, powerful desire. What do you want to achieve? What are your 3 most desired pictures of the Future. Do you want to live in another country, do you want to be an amazing business lady and have your own offices with employees? Do you see yourself travelling the world with your partner?

 If you want something for long enough and hard enough, you will eventually achieve it.

 

Step 2.          Imagine yourself there, where you wish to be, whom you wish to be. Visualise the littlest details, don’t be shy. For instance, day dream how you live by the sea, or go to a fancy restaurant with your partner, or you step out of your beautiful red car (all nice and slim) and with authority walk into your offices… employees are working hard. When you create a vivid picture in your mind and draw the littlest details, the desire, the Dream becomes realistic. It is almost like you are building a path, a bridge to a place where you want to be.

 Step 3.        Get yourself in the right mindset:

-                   Imagine you have a magic wand. It gives you the amazing infinite powers to achieve anything you want. You are strong, clever and powerful and you know where you’re going!

-               Don’t blame other people and circumstances for your current situation; you are what you are only because of your own actions, you are solely responsible for your today’s circumstances and quality of life;

-                   Instead of thinking what you DON’T like about where you are today and what you DON’T want, concentrate on what you want from your future;

-                   Trust your Intuition. There will be plenty of sceptics along the way, who will keep saying to you: ‘Come on, this is ridiculous! Come back to reality, just live the life you live now, work harder, save money, it will all be better!’ Yes, ok, let them say what they want. But by no means let the scepticism seed into your heart and soul. Continue to believe in the ‘Amazing you’ and trust that you know where you’re going, you know you can achieve it.

Step 4.        Have a Strategic Thinking or an ‘honesty session’: sit down, take a piece of paper and absolutely honestly list all the steps in between Current You and You at your Dream Destination.

Evaluate your current situation. Example: This is where I am now. How far do I need to go and what direction to reach my Ultimate Goal?

Put a list of 20 things you know you should be doing. Example: Do I need to do more marketing now (even if I dislike it) in order to get more clients and keep the old ones? Do I need to stop smoking so I can work out better?

Do complete skills analysis. Example of questions to ask yourself: Do you need to learn the basics of the Effective Speech & Presentation in order to be more professional? Do I need to learn the Basic of the Accounting?

Look carefully at the steps you wrote. Think, prioritise. Your Dream, your Biggest Goal might be beautiful but it does not mean that you will like all the steps you will have to make in order to get there. Remember, be honest and realistic.

            If you find it too painful to plan from Current You to Your Dream Destination, try the Projection from the Future. Here you are, successful, happy and, of course, very wise (otherwise how you would have gotten to your Dream Destination?). You know better. So what were those steps you took in order to get to your Success, to your Dream?

 Step 5.        Start working toward your Goal.

-          Work out the Systems that will make your life easier and your work more productive.

-          Be consistent with your promises and actions. A little trick for like yourself more: Under-promise and Over-deliver. Satisfaction guaranteed!

-          Discipline yourself: write plans, tick off what’s done, keep yourself on track by positive self-talk. You can do it, totally and absolutely!

Always remember to measure your progress and re-evaluate the initial Plan, if needed. Life constantly changes, so you need to be flexible to adapt your plans accordingly without shifting away from the major Goal.