GOALS AND GOAL SETTING...Have you done yours for 2010?

Does goal setting really work? YOU BET IT DOES!
Cheryl and I have done our goal setting meeting every year for the last TEN years. We have done 30 day goals, then 60 day, 90 day, 6 month, 1 year, 5 year, 10 year and this year we are plotting out goals for a 20 year mark.
Several years ago one of our five year goals was to travel the world. To see the places most only dream of. Have we gotten to them all? Nope......but we did get to Hawaii, London, Barcelona, Malta, Nice France, Rome Italy, Naples Italy, Isle of Capri, Sorento Italy, Pisa and Florance. We would have never gotten out of Dallas, Texas had we not put a game plan together. We planned out our business, how to build it to a size that would afford those exotic places. In doing so, we became top ranking leaders with a company who gave a trip to the Mediterranean. So by putting together goals with action steps we built a team, one of the rewards was the trip..... I am totally convinced that we would have not made the rank had we not had a clear vision of where we were going and how we were going to get there. Your goals are like your GPS in your car, by defining your goals and knowing how you were going to acomplish that goal is the engine. The GPS by itself is not going to get you there, you must have the engine as well. Is this making sense?? OK lets get to work:

GOALS AND GOAL SETTING;
Nothing becomes DYNAMIC until it becomes SPECIFIC!
Be thankful, there's a lot to be thankful for. Look around you, you will never be given more until you become a good steward of what you have.
Look how far you have come and the good you have done....
What do you want to do? If you knew you couldn't fail, what would that be, what would you want to do then?
Who would you do it with?
Who do you want to share it with?
What would you want to see, where would you want to go?
What are you working towards? Maybe you've got something in your heart that you have a desire to do.....NOW'S THE TIME TO GET SPECFIC.........

BE SURE TO CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR THE REST OF THE MAP, THE BLUEPRINT TO SETTING YOUR GOALS AND SETTING FORTH A GAME PLAN.....REMEMBER A GOAL IS A DREAM WRITTEN DOWN WITH A DATE TO ACHIEVE IT BY.....WRITE DOWN SOME GOALS AND CHECK BACK TOMORROW!!

GOAL SETTING PART TWO.......

Many of us are just one little piece of paper away from living our lives by DESIGN and not by DEFAULT! Living by defaul is really living in mediocrity and really that is not living at all, it's EXISTING.
Mediocrity is living in a RUT...the only difference between a RUT and the GRAVE are it's dimensions! :-)
Friends you are only a decision away from living your life by design. When we set our goals we set the sail as Jim Rohn preached. Look ahead to where you want to go, not back to where you were. If you aim at nothing guess what? That’s what you'll hit. One has to aim high, but not so high as it can not be achieved. Be logical setting goals, set the bar high, yet not too high. Make yourself have to stretch and grow, because by stretching and growing is what makes you better. It is how a butterfly flies. In the cocoon stage a butterfly struggles to get free. It works hard, really hard, yet if you help the butterfly free itself from the shell, it will never have the strength in its wings to lift off. It is in the struggle that we propel our self forward. Do you believe if you write down you goals you can achieve them? Even in my favorite book He said, "
WRITE DOWN YOUR PLANS ON A TABLET. BRING YOUR PLANS BEFORE ME AND I WILL HELP YOU TO SUCCEED." So grab your pad and let's begin.
You must remember that goal setting is much like baking a cake, if you follow the directions on the box you get a perfect cake, follow the directions on a piece of paper and you'll achieve success. Are you still not a believer? Here is more thought to ponder, the Yale Graduating Class of 1953 - Study

• 3% had put their goals in writing
• 97% had incomplete goals or none at all!
TWENTY YEARS LATER......
• The 3% who set goals had 10 times the
incomes than the other 97% combined!

Dreams become goals when they are written down.
Find a goal big enough to inspire you, something that will cause you to unleash your power.
Goals give you a vision that keeps you pressing on.
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill
With that said, be sure to check back for the third and final lesson on GOALS AND GOAL SETTING!

GOALS AND GOAL SETTING FINAL CHAPTER

What’s Important to You?
EARLY RETIREMENT
NEW CAR
VACATION HOME
FAVORITE CHARITY
NEW HOME
TRAVEL THE WORLD
HELPING FAMILY
CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
MORE FAMILY TIME
DEBT FREE
TIME FREEDOM OR
FINANCIAL SECURITY

Does anything on that list hit close to home for you. They all do for us!
Dream. You just won the lottery for $5 million. In order of priority, what would you do or buy with that money? (Be specific)
What is your most important goal?

LET’S TALK ABOUT SOME GUIDELINES ON HOW TO SET GOALS.

1. We have to make sure that the goal we desire to achieve is something we truly want, not just something that "sounds" good or cool. There has to be a burning desire behind that goal. When setting goals keep in mind that it is important that our goals be consistent to our values.

2.Develop goals in five areas of your life:
BUSINESS AND FINANCES
HEALTH AND FITNESS
LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS
LEARNING AND GROWTH
PERSONAL AND CONTRIBUTION GOALS
AND "ALWAYS" INCUDE FUN GOALS...TRIPS..VACATIONS AND THE LIKE...

3. A goal must not contradict any of your other goals. For example if you want to buy a $500,000 dollar home this year, you can't have an income goal of $50,000. This falls under what the experts call "integrated thinking" and that will sabotage all the hard work in planning your goals. That form of thinking goes beyond our goals as well, it effects our everyday thoughts as well...Strive to eliminate any and all contradictory ideas and thinking from our thought process.

4. Write down your goals in the positive not the negative, the future not the present, what that means is this; look to the future, the place your goals will propel you, see it, feel it, smell it, act as if you have achieved your goal. The reason we write down and examine our goals consistently is to create a set of instructions, and guidelines for our subconscious mind to carry out. Did you know that our subconscious mind is a very efficient tool? However it is a tool, and this is to our advantage, it's a tool that can not determine fact from fiction and it does not judge. It's primary function is to carry out what it has been told by you. The more positive instructions and direction we give it, the more positive our results. Every heard of the power of attraction??

5. Be specific and in complete detail when writing your goals. For example; if its is a new car you want, what kind of car, what color, what does the interior look like, what does the new leather smell like? Write it in complete detail.
In 2006 I set a goal and the reward was going to be a Chrysler 300 C Hemi..gold, with satalite radio, power windows and mirrors, seat heaters, back up sensors, in other words every bell and whistle they had available. I wrote the goal in detail. How it would drive, the works.....the car sits in my garage

when we walked into the dealership the sales person said lets take it for a spin, I let my wife drive, cause I had driven that car every day in my mind and thoughts for 15 months. By the way, that goal was a 1 year goal, I didn't give up at the 12 month mark, and neither should you. Your goals are your dreams, don't sell yourself short! Remember the must give our subconscious mind a detailed set of instructions, a roadmap to work on and follow. The more percise the outcome the more efficient our subconscious mind can become. This is true for all your goals, not just a car, but a house or anything.


6. Finally, and I have mentioned this, make sure you set the bar high enough, but not so high you have no hope to achieve it. In other words it must make you stretch and grow to achieve it. Shoot for the moon, if you miss you still have the stars. We sometimes set goals too high and we miss not only the moon but our entire galaxy! Keep your goals sensable but not so easy you can do it in your sleep so to speak. Can you do it? ABSOLUTELY! It's time to release the greatness within you.

HERE ARE SOME MORE GUIDELINES ON SETTING GOALS.

1. REACHABLE GOALS ARE SPECIFIC…IN DETAIL

2. REACHABLE GOALS ARE SIGNIFICANT. YOU HAVE TO CARE ABOUT THE GOAL, HAVE THAT BURNING DESIRE, IT IS THAT DESIRE THAT GETS YOU GOING IN THE MORNING AND KEEPS THE “JUICES” AND BLOOD FLOWING. OUR GOALS ARE WORTH ACHIEVING!

3. KEEP THE GOAL SIMPLE, DON’T MAKE IT COMPLEX, BY KEEPING YOUR GOALS SIMPLE THEY REMAIN CLEAR AND YOUR FOCUS WILL BE STRONGER.

4. REACHABLE GOALS SHOULD BE STRATEGIC IN OTHER WORDS THEY SHOULD INTERTWINE WITH OTHER AREAS OF OUR LIVES, WHICH GIVES YOU MORE REASON TO REACH THE GOAL.

5. REACHABLE GOALS ARE MEASURABLE. WITH OUT BEING ABLE TO MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS IT IS JUST A PIPEDREAM. I READ ONCE THAT GOALS SHOULD BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF WEIGHT, HEIGHT, DOLLARS, INCHES OR HOURS…..

6. ATTAINABLE GOALS ARE RATIONAL. YOU WILL NEED A PLAN, A ROADMAP WHEN YOU EXPLAIN YOUR GOAL IT SOULD MAKE YOU AND OTHERS AROUND YOU EXCITED …AGAIN THE GOAL SHOULD BE OUT OF REACH BUT NOT OUT OF SIGHT…

7. A GOAL SHOULD BE TANGIBLE, SOMETHING YOU CAN HEAR SMELL SEE OR TOUCH…AGAIN THAT SUBCONCIOUS MIND KICKS IN, IT CAN NOT SEE FINANCIAL FREEDOM BUT IT CAN SEE A VISUALIZED BANK STATEMENT WITH LARGE NUMBERS ON IT…

8. FINALLY YOU SHOULD SHARE YOUR GOALS WITH SOMEONE TO HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE TO. IT IS FAR MORE LIKELY WE WILL STICK TO OUR PLAN AND REACH OUR GOAL IF WE KNOW OUR MENTOR SUPPORTS US.

9. MOST IMPORTANTLY...BELIVE IN YOURSELF AS WE BELIEVE IN YOU..

LET'S WIN BIG TOGETHER...