Modern psychological and physiological research has shown that the mind and the body are not two separate entities but are two ways of looking at the same object.
It is like a lightning may be thought of as a bright flash with the associated thunder or an electrical discharge with a huge momentary change of air [...]
This is the M of SMART goals:
Have a way of measuring the achievement of your goals. Here again we are talking about making your goals more precise. The goal seeking mechanism in human beings is mainly the unconscious mind which needs precise directions. This is where measurable goals come into their own.
As we mentioned before [...]
Think of all consequences of your goal from an ecological point of view. This basically means being aware of cause and effect relationships. Often we have a goal and take action toward the goal f and do not notice all the secondary effects. Some of these may be beneficial and others we may not like.
Just [...]
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 [...]
