June 12, 2008
4 top factors in goal achievement
Hello my friend:
If there is one question - or comment, actually, I get
from people who have yet to start changing their thought
and belief patterns is that many of them set goals... lots
of goals. Big goals.
But don't achieve the biggies. Hardly any of them.
Many have told me they've read mountains of goal setting
books and listened to a boat load of tapes and CDs.
They got the steps down pat. They go something like this.
1- Identify the thing you want or what you want to achieve
and write it down.
2- Write down all the reasons you want it, emotionally,
spiritually, etc. What will achieving it give you, how
will you feel? This is for motivation.
3- Know your obstacles and challenges. Write down your
limitations that might stop you.
4- Find out what you'll need to know/learn and find out
where to get the help and who can help you... get the
advice, ask for help.
5- Put a deadline on when you want and expect to achieve
the goal.
6- Create your plan... all the things that will need to be
done to reach the goal.
7- Imagine yourself already having achieved the goal.
8- Keep going. Stick with it. Don't give up.
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Right out of the book.
"Goal Setting 101."
But in college and in life, 101 level knowledge doesn't
cut the mustard when you need 401 level skills.
In the mid 80's, I had taken the effort to get similar
steps photocopied all ready for me to add my goals in,
write my motivation, deadlines, etc.
And I wrote down a ton of goals.
In some cases, I'd take a few of the steps. Sometimes.
But most of them went undone.
And know this: When you have dreams, set goals and quit
on them regularly, what happens is you get cynical. Even
more than before, your self image becomes that of someone
who loses. You see people who succeed routinely as
"lucky." And your dreams usually die. Depression is often
a typical result. And if you've told a doctor about your
blues, you've probably taken the pills. And felt their
wrath.
I mean, after all, if there is no hope of achieving your
biggest hopes and dreams, it's common to literally give up
on yourself. Self-esteem takes a battering.
Daily.
Because these goal setting steps above work pretty good
only for people who are 100% committed.
For everyone else?
Maybe 1 in 40 will accomplish much in more than one main
area of life.
So what is the key... what is the secret to achieving
nice, big, juicy, life-changing goals in MANY areas of
life? Regularly? Routinely?
There are a number of key factors.
And these are the factors that make our Accelerated
Success Conditioning Program, Setting & Achieving Goals is
so effective.
Here are just 4 of them:
Factor 1:
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Your self image needs to change along with your
achievement. No change-a the self image means no change-
a... period.
If you think of a goal and deep down believe, "That's not
me," then guess what? It's not going to be you. No goal.
Pack it up.
But when you can not only see yourself doing what is
necessary and enjoy it, but truly identify with every part
of what owning this accomplishment will mean to every part
of your life, you are a thousand times more likely to stick
with it.
When you think deep down, "I am (a great ____)," then your
identity is now tied up in your success, and you are on the
way to success.
Factor 2:
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You must be able to literally shrink down the size of the
challenges in your mind. Yes, the brain can make tasks
look big and impossible. And the brain can make tasks look
small and ridiculously impossible. Same task!
When the job looks small and easy, confidence soars. This
can make incredibly difficult jobs feel fun.
Factor 3:
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Seeing mistakes, setbacks, delays not as problems but as
inevitable, predictable steps along the path to reaching
your outcomes. This isn't Pollyanna thinking. Achievers
in all fields are ready for so-called "problems" and when
they show up, they get excited to solve them instead of
depressed and defeated.
In the world of professional selling, for example, one of
these crossroads is called "objections." Sales losers hear
them and pack their bags but pros anticipate them and
tailor their questions and presentations to flush them out,
get them on the table, and minimize their importance. And
they get paid fortunes for this learnable mental skill. I
personally went from homeless to being the highest paid
sales professional in the world in a few different
industries, in part, because I learned this skill of
reducing the size of "problems," making them small so I
could fly by them at mach speed.
Factor 4:
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Knowing the benefits of reaching a goal is not enough. To
achieve very difficult feats, you must be able to spit out
the benefits in your sleep... backwards, forwards, upside
down and inside out. You need to make them attractive to
you. You need to fall in love with the benefits. They
need to be... motivating enough for you to give up many
things, quite often.
Because when you are faced with choices and temptations to
do things that go against you achieving your goals, if you
are the slightest bit fuzzy on why you want a goal, you are
going to choose wrong.
And afterwards?
"Aw, who was I kidding?"
"That wasn't me."
"I guess I'm always going to be ____."
"That is for other people, not people like me."
And what are these?
Beliefs. Core beliefs. Core beliefs that go deep, deep,
deep.
And your potential gets smaller and smaller every time
this happens.
That's why simply writing down a few goals and spending a
few scant specks of time on dreaming about them doesn't cut
it.
Because thought habits and patterns are strong. They have
momentum on their side. Life-long momentum. This is why
people generally don't change much if at all after the age
of 20.
That's why mental conditioning - simple, easy mental
conditioning - the Think Right Now way is so effective.
People who set and achieve massive goals and continue to
grow and grow and grow are foundationally different than
people who are content doing the same things day after day
after day.
At Think Right Now International, our purpose is to look
for, find and categorize these differences and create
mental training programs that can take a person who is not
growth oriented and turn them into a goal achieving growth
machine.
Ever wonder why the world greatest golfers, skiers, tennis
players, baseball players, archers and other top athletes
are the greatest at their sports?
It's not physical training or real "hands-on" experience.
That's a small part only.
What always, always, always sets the very best performers
at any skill set is mental training. Their massive success
comes because they use mental training that is, most
always, more effective than their actual physical training.
Because the body follows what the mind tells it to do.
So if you have been frustrated because you want more from
life but haven't been able to get it...
If you have been angry because life isn't fair...
If you've lost too often and have stopped trying...
If you don't believe you can achieve any more than you
have...
...You are missing out on the juice of life...
Growth. The joy of massive accomplishment. Adoring
admiration of others. Confidence. Fame. Wealth. Free
time. Travel. Freedom. Peace of mind.
If you're stagnating and want more, get over to
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This program has helped thousands to bring those simple
steps listed above to life.
Be a doer. Join the elite achievers.
Love,
Mike Brescia
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