Continuing our goal writing series:
Make your goals specific.
Again going back to our original example of flying to Hawaii, if our pilots decide to go somewhere in the Pacific, where are they going to end up? So long as they fly to any non-specific destination in the Pacific they are on target but it is highly [...]
continuing the goal writing series:
Your goals need have an achievement time.This is the T of SMART goals.
If we use the metaphor of flying to Hawaii, and we have no arrival time, we may take ten years going from here to there and yet since ultimately we are hoping to get to Hawaii, we (our unconscious [...]
continuing our goal achievement series:
Give yourself a deadline for any goal and then just beat that deadline no matter what it takes. This again is a way to beat that most odious habit of procrastination which damages our chances of archiving goals more than just about any other hindrance.
A friend gets into trouble by being [...]
One of the main reasons we procrastinate and end up not achieving our goals is because we are cursed with perfectionism.
We have stupid sayings like, “Do it well or not at all.”
A much better saying is, “Do it badly at first, then improve it until it’s good enough and leave well alone.”
Let’s deconstruct this:
Do it [...]
Continuing the goal setting and achievement series:
Keep your goal realistic while you dream your wildest dream.
This is appears like a paradox but is doable and an extremely important part of good goal setting.
Earlier we mentioned an important characteristic of successful people thus: “Challenge yourself enough but [...]
Next point about writing your goals is to have them for yourself.
Thus if you want to become a non-smoker because it bothers your spouse, your doctor told you to stop or you’ll die, or you promised your child you would stop, your chances of success are much lower than if you want to become a [...]
Continuing our goal setting series:
Keep the goals you write simple and concrete. The unconscious mind (the part of you which achieves goals) does not like or for that matter understand nor comprehend complicated redundant ideas which are abstract nominalizations and complex sentences like this sentence which goes on and on.
So be specific but keep it [...]
Continuing our goal achievement series:
Write your goals down in the present tense as if they are true in the here and now.
This is because the unconscious mind is lazy and always chooses a path of least resistance. Thus if your goal is to lose weight and become slim and you write, “I will be slim.” [...]
One secret of achieving your goals is to write your goals down. That’s a start but there are ways to write your goals so their achievement becomes easier:
Good goals must be written in the positive (or write it the way you want it). That is to say if your goals are to reduce your weight [...]
When an airliner goes from say Los Angeles to Hawaii, it is off course about 99 percent of the time. How come it gets to its destination?
The pilots have a goal in mind and do a series of midcourse corrections. Thus they take off and aim for Hawaii (their destination or goal). Soon air currents [...]
