Hi everyone,
Great weather again today! When is this awesome weather going to stop :D Never. The weather will always be great in my eyes:) I hope that you will have an enjoyable start on your weekend.
Today I will be relaxing and enjoying the awesome weather:) Hopefully the weekend will be as great as today. With fun and joy all day long.
Today I will be talking about the most important part about setting goals. The most important step you can take to get you a lot closer to your goals than most people:)
The Most Important Step:
For several years I have had goals and have not followed through on them. I would get inspired in the moment, all pumped up and get going, but in 1-2 months time I started noticing that I did`nt follow through on anything that I had been writing down.
Writing your goals is of course the first step, and even most people does`nt even do that.; Just the action of committing your ideas to a piece of paper begins to make them real.
But the most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you have set them, you have to right away begin to create momentum. The most important rules that you should adopt to help you achieving your goals is to first write down the goal first, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
A true decision is one that you act upon, and act upon right now! Use the momentum you`ve built up in coming up with your top four One-Year goals.
The most powerful way to continue this momentum is to take immediate action as soon as you finish reading my Take your first steps towards your goal Blog. Even the smallest step aphonecall, a commitment, creating a game plan will move you forward.
Then develop a list of simple things you can do every day for the next ten days to get you closer to what you desire, your goals.
I can promise you that ten days of small actions in the direction of your goals will begin to create a chain of habits that will ensure your long-term success. If your number one personal development goal is to learn how to dance Salsa, for instance, "let your fingers do the walk for you" through those yellow pages today. Call the dance studio for a schedule, and enroll in a class.
If your to/adventure goal for the next year is to buy a Porche Cayenne Turbo, call your local dealership for a brochure, visit the this afternoon and take a test drive. I am not saying that you would have to buy it today, but at least find out how much it would cost you or drive it so it becomes more real. Your intensified desire will help you to start putting together a plan.
If your to economic goal for the next year is to earn $100k, then start evaluating now what steps you must take. Who is already earning this amount of income who can teach you their key to their effectiveness? Do you need to get a second job or start up a network marketing business to earn that kind of income? What skills and attitudes do you need to aquire in order to achieve it? Do you need to start saving more money than you spend, and invest the difference so that your income can flow from more than just your work? Do you need to start a new venture? What is the resources that you need to gather in order to get there?
Remember, you need to experience the feeling of achieving your top one-year goals in each of the four categories at least once a day.
Ideally, you`ll look at them once in the morning and once at night. Review your entire list ever six months to ensure that your goals stay vital. You may want to go through the brainstorming process again in order to create some new goals, and I am sure you`ll want to add and delete goals as your life will take on a exciting new shape.
An additional distinction that is critical for your long-term success is that achieving our goals can be a curse unless we have already set up a new set of higher goals before we reach the first. As soon as you will find yourself about to achieve a goal, you need to make sure that you design the next set of goals immediately. Otherwise you will experience something we all need to avoid: outrunning our dream. How many times have we read about people who achieve their ultimate life goals only to say, "Is that all there is??" because they feel they have no place to go from the top? A classic example of this is several Apollo astronauts who prepared their entire lives for the ultimate mission: to land on the moon. When they finally did it they were euphoric, but after returning to the earth, some of them developed a level of emotional depression beyond what most people could imagine. After all, there was now nothing to look forward to. What could be a bigger goal than making it to the moon, doing the impossible, and exploring the outer space? Maybe the answer is in exploring the equally uncharted frontier of inner space in our minds, our hearts and our souls?
Also another example could be a young woman who plan her wedding for months, sometimes years, pouring all their creativity, resources, and even identity, into a perfect fairytale fantasy. They pin all their hopes and dreams on what they expect to be a once-in-alifetime event. After all the glow wears off, the young bride, like the astronaut, feels down. How do you follow up the peak moment of your life? She needs to look forward to the more important, never-ending adventure of building the relationship with her spouse. How do people achieve their heart`s desire and still feel the excitement and passion that come from aiming toward a goal?
As they approach what they`ve pursued for so long, they immediately establish a new set of compelling goals. This guarantees a smooth transition from completion to new inspiration and a continued commitment to growth. Without that commitment, we`ll do what is necessary to feel satisfied, but we lose our desire to expand, and we begin to lose the momentum and we stagnate. Often people die emotional and spiritual deaths long before they leave their physical bodies.
The way to break out of this trap is to realize that contribution may be the ultimate goal. Finding a way to help others(those we care about deeply) can inspire us a lifetime. There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give their time, energy, capital, creativity and commitment.
Lets talk about Robin Williams. Here is a man who has a great advantage over his late friend John Belushi because he has discovered a way to make sure he never run out of goals. Robin and his friends Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal, have found a mission that will continually tap their greatest resources: helping the homeless. Arnold Schwarzenegger has found a similar emotional reward in his relationship with the Special Olympics and the President`s Council of Physical fitness.
All of these successful people have learned that there is nothing quite so compelling as a feeling of sincere contribution.
Make sure your next level of dreams will continually pull you forward in a constant, never-ending search for improvement. A Commitment to Constant and never ending Improvement is truly the universal insurance policy for life-long happiness.
Remember that a compelling future is the food on which our souls thrive, we all need a continued sense of emotional and spiritual growth.
So now you know what to get past in order to make your goals a lot more achieve able than they might have been before or you learned if you achieve your lifetime goal or a great goal. Always aim for the next dream/goal before you achieve your current. It will put you in a never ending cycle which is awesome and life changing for you.
NEXT blogging will be how to program yourself even deeper for the success you will achieve in the future thorough your goals.
Hope you share this weekend with your great family and friends and help them towards where they want to go through this weekend and make this weekend to be remembered in the history book of your life.
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do long after the mood you said it in has left you".
Love your life,
John Thore Stub Sneisen
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