Have high standards for yourself. Don't lower your standards. Your standards are for you.
You don't have to be ridiculous.
Hold yourself accountable for your spending and saving.
Hold yourself accountable for doing excellent work at school, your side project and your main job.
If you set a weight loss goal for 2012, maintain the standard you set for yourself.
Crowd out negative thoughts and people from your mind. This is up to you to protect your vision and goal.
A MasterMind group is excellent for accountability.
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
You Have to Shut Out Negativity
This year, begin shutting out negative people, news and talk from your life.
Focus on your goals. I know many of you want to start a side business or maybe you have grander schemes. Close your mind to negativity. Do the initial work you need to do. Starting a business is initially very tough and time consuming. You don't need naysayers around.
Start or join a master mind group for support and collaboration. It helps if you know people who have been where you are.
Focus on your goals. I know many of you want to start a side business or maybe you have grander schemes. Close your mind to negativity. Do the initial work you need to do. Starting a business is initially very tough and time consuming. You don't need naysayers around.
Start or join a master mind group for support and collaboration. It helps if you know people who have been where you are.
Monday, November 23, 2009
How to Create a Master Plan for Success
In order to have a clear plan for success, you must have your goals written down. Yeah, I know you've probably heard this before, but why do you think you've heard it so many times? Because writing down your goals works!
A client of mine didn't want to write down his goals. When we first started working together, he told me that he had been in business for 20 years, was earning $120,000 and didn't think goal setting would work for him to grow his business. I explained to him that it would give him clarity and something to strive for. After his initial resistance, he finally listened to me and told me that one of his goals was to double his business to $240,000. Within 6 months of working together, he doubled his business and made the most amount of money he has every made in his entire career. Why do you think this happened? Because having clarity and a master plan with goals pays off!
To improve your chance for success, you should create a master plan. This is your big picture... a visual map of how success looks to you.
Here's how you can create a game plan for focusing on your goals:
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES:
Think of 101 things you want to accomplish in the next 10 years. Have fun with this and let your imagination run free. Be specific and personalize your list by beginning each sentence with "I am" or "I will." For example, "I will exercise at least three times a week. "Or I am the most successful salesperson in my company".
To get you started, here are a few questions that can help you gain focus:
What do I want to do?
What do I want to have?
Where do I want to go?
What contribution do I want to make?
What do I want to become?
What do I want to learn?
Whom do I want to spend time with?
How much money do I want to earn, save and invest?
How much time do I want off for fun?
What will I do to improve my health?
Once you make your list of goals, prioritize them. Place a 1 by the most important goal, 2 beside the next most important and so on. But before you do that, write down the most important reason you want to accomplish each goal and the biggest benefit you will receive from each. This will help you stay focused and motivated.
CREATE A PICTURES GOAL BOOK:
To improve your focus on your new lifestyle, create a picture book of your most important goals. Simply start collecting pictures in a large photo album. For instance, if your goal is to travel to France, start clipping photos of places, people and items associated with that country. For a real-life example, a client of mine wanted to obtain 60 new clients, so he cut out pictures of people's faces and pasted them on a large poster board with the number 60 around it. This helped him visualize his goal, making it seem more achievable.
USE AN IDEAS BOOK:
Get a basic notebook and jot down your daily observations and insights. This is a powerful tool to expand your awareness. You can use your book for business ideas, sales tips presentation skills, money-making projects or quotes you have read. If you're more of a computer person, you can start a Word document called "Great Ideas."
VISUALIZE, THINK, REFLECT AND REVIEW:
Use your imagination to create positive, winning pictures. The sharper your images are and the more intense you feel, the more likely you are to create the result you desire.
DEVELOP MENTORS AND MASTERMIND GROUPS:
Surround yourself with people who have more experience in areas where you are lacking. Your master mind group should have four to six people who meet regularly to share ideas and support each other. These are power alliances that can help you achieve your goals much faster than you could on your own.
Pamela Dunn, founder of Executive Coaching International, is passionate about helping successful professionals and entrepreneurs achieve their highest vision of success. As a former trainer for world-class success coach Tony Robbins, Pamela has a tremendous amount of insight into personal and professional success. Her unique High Performance Coaching System is a results-oriented program that has helped countless professionals find focus, build efficiency, and eliminate overwhelm. For information about Pamela's coaching program, or to sign up for more free, high-performance articles like this, please visit her online at http://www.PamelaDunn.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Pamela_A_Dunn
A client of mine didn't want to write down his goals. When we first started working together, he told me that he had been in business for 20 years, was earning $120,000 and didn't think goal setting would work for him to grow his business. I explained to him that it would give him clarity and something to strive for. After his initial resistance, he finally listened to me and told me that one of his goals was to double his business to $240,000. Within 6 months of working together, he doubled his business and made the most amount of money he has every made in his entire career. Why do you think this happened? Because having clarity and a master plan with goals pays off!
To improve your chance for success, you should create a master plan. This is your big picture... a visual map of how success looks to you.
Here's how you can create a game plan for focusing on your goals:
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES:
Think of 101 things you want to accomplish in the next 10 years. Have fun with this and let your imagination run free. Be specific and personalize your list by beginning each sentence with "I am" or "I will." For example, "I will exercise at least three times a week. "Or I am the most successful salesperson in my company".
To get you started, here are a few questions that can help you gain focus:
What do I want to do?
What do I want to have?
Where do I want to go?
What contribution do I want to make?
What do I want to become?
What do I want to learn?
Whom do I want to spend time with?
How much money do I want to earn, save and invest?
How much time do I want off for fun?
What will I do to improve my health?
Once you make your list of goals, prioritize them. Place a 1 by the most important goal, 2 beside the next most important and so on. But before you do that, write down the most important reason you want to accomplish each goal and the biggest benefit you will receive from each. This will help you stay focused and motivated.
CREATE A PICTURES GOAL BOOK:
To improve your focus on your new lifestyle, create a picture book of your most important goals. Simply start collecting pictures in a large photo album. For instance, if your goal is to travel to France, start clipping photos of places, people and items associated with that country. For a real-life example, a client of mine wanted to obtain 60 new clients, so he cut out pictures of people's faces and pasted them on a large poster board with the number 60 around it. This helped him visualize his goal, making it seem more achievable.
USE AN IDEAS BOOK:
Get a basic notebook and jot down your daily observations and insights. This is a powerful tool to expand your awareness. You can use your book for business ideas, sales tips presentation skills, money-making projects or quotes you have read. If you're more of a computer person, you can start a Word document called "Great Ideas."
VISUALIZE, THINK, REFLECT AND REVIEW:
Use your imagination to create positive, winning pictures. The sharper your images are and the more intense you feel, the more likely you are to create the result you desire.
DEVELOP MENTORS AND MASTERMIND GROUPS:
Surround yourself with people who have more experience in areas where you are lacking. Your master mind group should have four to six people who meet regularly to share ideas and support each other. These are power alliances that can help you achieve your goals much faster than you could on your own.
Pamela Dunn, founder of Executive Coaching International, is passionate about helping successful professionals and entrepreneurs achieve their highest vision of success. As a former trainer for world-class success coach Tony Robbins, Pamela has a tremendous amount of insight into personal and professional success. Her unique High Performance Coaching System is a results-oriented program that has helped countless professionals find focus, build efficiency, and eliminate overwhelm. For information about Pamela's coaching program, or to sign up for more free, high-performance articles like this, please visit her online at http://www.PamelaDunn.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Pamela_A_Dunn
Saturday, October 17, 2009
33 Ways to Get and Keep Yourself Motivated
1. Ignore The Unimportant
Learning to ignore is a fantastic lesson. Much more rewarding that you think. There must be an art of ignoring and they should teach it in universities. Spanning your focus in so many areas will only weaken you. Ignoring what's unimportant will free up energy and help you stay focused and productive.
2. Understand What Makes You Bored
And avoid it. Boredom is a nasty place to be. But as any other state of your being can be understood and you can identify the triggers. Once you understand that, you can safely go away from the gray zone. Takes some time but it really worth the effort.
3. Laugh More Often
Watch comedies, read comics. Throw away that ugly seriousness form your face. Laughing is a safety valve for your stress relief mechanism. It actually let it out from your body in bursts. And while you're laughing you can still learn new stuff, like personal development lessons from Dumbo.
4. Keep A Log Of Your Breakthroughs
Do you remember when you had the first major success of your life? I thought so. We tend to overlook this simple habit of writing down our feelings every time we have a major breakthrough in our lives. Keep a log of your successes. And get inspired by it.
5. Exercise
This is one the easiest and simplest way to get motivated. Just walk out from the office, start doing some pushups or just go for a short run around the house. It will instantly declutter your physical body. Every time you exercise, you produce endorphins. Endorphins are good.
6. Create A Custom Environment
You can't be motivated if you work in an environment which does not represent you. Make changes, adjust, improve. Doesn't matter if it's about your job office or your home. Whatever the space you work in, make it yours somehow, that will lower your unconscious adaptation efforts and you'll have more time dedicated to the actual tasks.
7. Read Success Stories
Like in other people success stories. Get inspired. Admire them (with caution, but do admire them). Reading about success will make it more available to you and will fuel your efforts towards its achievement. And of course, you can learn how to be successful too.
8. Switch Tasks
You will get bored if you work on the same projects for too long. Boredom kills motivation. Try having several small projects that you can land on whenever you feel you're on the verge of a burn out. Not to mention that switching tasks will instantly create fresh perspectives, helping you solve problems faster.
9. Assess Your Progress
If you work constantly you will make some progress, that's a rule. You may have the impression that you're not going anywhere but that's because you're skipping all those little milestones you go through every day. Watching back with satisfaction at what you created will surely boost your energy.
10. Talk About Your Projects
With your friends or family. Let the people know you're doing stuff. That will often make yourself aware of the fact that you're actually doing stuff and enjoy doing it. It will also create a certain level of accountability that will most likely push you forward.
11. Avoid Energy Vampires
Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. Don't get caught in such power games, avoid at all costs those energy leaks. Even if that means you'll isolate more often. It's better to do work in your own secluded realm than to try to resist to a diminisihing environment.
12. Write Clear Goals
Most of the time that translates to actually write down your goals, you already have them clear in your mind. But take them out of your mind, put them in a trusted system and move on. Your mind works better when it knows what it has to do not when it spends time figuring what it has to do.
13. Exercise Satisfaction
Once you finished some task, reward yourself. Give yourself a prize. No need to be a huge one, but just enough to create the habit. Look forward to it while you're working, wait for it, praise for it. In time you'll become addicted to this fulfillment satisfaction and you won't stop until you reach it.
14. Accept Failure
As part of the game. Failure, like success, is just a result of your actions, nothing more. One of the biggest motivation enemies is fear of failure. Fear that your outcome will turn bad. Accept it. It may turn bad, but that doesn't mean you have to stop doing what you're doing. Give your best and hope for the best.
15. Use Affirmations
Like writing down your intentions, your goals, your current status. Affirmations are a very powerful tool, hugely underrated. People find it awkward to write self-directed messages and read them out loud. News flash: you're doing this all the time, unconsciously. So why not doing it consciously? Start with a morning phrase.
16. Play Games
Impersonate people. Imitate animals. Pretend you're Sindbad the Sailor. Playing challenging games will relax your mind and at the same time will gather more resources from secret sources. A good motivation is always blended with joy. You can start with a simple game like how to get from a to b in 5 random steps.
17. Say "No"
Say "no" to distractions, to trolls, to depression. Exercising "no"'s is liberating. Too often too many commitments are making your life a continuous chore. Limit your promises and only get into things you really want to finish. Once you do that, go to a mirror, smile and start to politely exercise your "no"'s.
18. Look For Positive People
Sadness, whining and complaining doesn't play well with motivation. On the contrary. But positive, optimistic, energetic people will always shift your vibration in the right direction. Search them, find them and become their friend. Sometimes all you need to get motivated is to be surrounded by shiny happy people.
19. Difficulty Is Part Of The Game
Learn to work under pressure. Some things are more difficult than other. Accept that fact and focus on doing what you have to do not on your feelings of dissatisfaction. Difficulty is often what makes things worth doing. No sweat, no glory. Whenever I feel something is going to be tough, I'm usually more motivated to do it. The reward will be higher.
20. Create Personal Challenges
Personal challenges are short term goals, usually from 15 to 90 days. Like starting to exercise, or creating a habit from scratch in 15 days. Using personal challenges strengthen your inner power the same way exercising is strengthening your muscles. The more you do, the more motivated you feel to do even more.
21. Chose Positive Motivation
Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation.
22. Release Your Guardians
You do have guardians and some of them are pretty nasty. They won't let you do your stuff. The bad thing about your guardians is that most of the time they're working at the unconscious level, really difficult to interact with. Just accept, acknowledge and let them go. You will be much better off.
23. Enforce Your Personal Mission
You gotta have a personal mission. If you don't, go find one fast. Reinforcing your personal mission at certain intervals is surely one of the greatest motivators of all. It's like looking on a map and seeing at any moment where you are, how much do you have to go and which path you have to chose.
24. Spend Time Outside
If you can do something creative, like gardening or landscaping, even better. But it's ok even if you don't. Spending time outside of your box will clear the air inside. When you get back, everything will be fresher and shinier. And something fresher is always a nice motivator.
25. Keep A Clean Inbox
That's one of the few GTD concepts I still use and it proves to be a great motivator. A clean inbox helps a smooth thoughts flow. A smooth thoughts flow let me be in the moment without any hidden burdens. Being in the moment is usually all I need to actually start doing things.
26. Don't Aim For Perfection
It will soon drain you out. Aiming to be better is the real game. Perfection is a dead end, nothing really happens after you reached to it. Accepting that you can be better instead of perfect leaves some room for growth. And that means you have a reason to do more. And that's what we usually call motivation, right?
27. Do One Thing At A Time
Multitasking is a myth. Even computers processors aren't really doing multi-tasking, that's what we perceive. Instead they have a single frequency and several parallel buses managing information, faking a multi-tasking activity. Multitasking is creating internal conflicts, both in humans and in computers. You end up spending more time solving those conflicts than actually working.
28. Keep A Source Of Inspiring Readings
You're not always completely down, most of the time you're just averagish, just one sentence away from your best shape. Be sure to keep around a list of inspiring readings. Quotes, blog posts, ebooks, whatever works for you. You can start with 100 ways to live a better life, for instance.
29. Put On Some Good Music
Just let it there, floating around, don't turn the volume knob. Just enough to recreate a pleasant atmosphere. Music speaks to areas you can't control with logical tools, yet is so powerful that can completely shift your mood in a second. The only thing better than silence is good music.
30. Don't Fall Into The Productivity Trap
It's not how much you do, but how much of it really matters. Doing stuff just for filling up notebooks with tasks won't make you feel motivated. On the other side, whenever you're doing something that matters, your planing and organizing activities will just flow.
31. Keep Your Life Lenses Clean
Your camera objective may be blurred but you don't know. This is why you get the same picture again and again, this is why feel stuck and can't seem to see any progress. Sometimes all you have to do is to clean up your lenses. It takes a little bit of courage but it's worth the trouble.
32. Clean Up Your House
I know you need motivation for that too, but believe me, it's a fantastic way to clean up your internal garbage. Cleaning up your house is not a chore, it's a necessity. Your action paths may be clogged the same way your floor is sticky. And most of the time unsticking the floor will open your mind again.
33. Stop Reading This And Get To Work
It was fun reading it, I'm sure. But it won't get things done in your place. Inspiration is a good motivator, but don't abuse it. Now, that you are all energized, it's time for you to get back to work. Of course, you can bookmark this post for future motivation sessions, but for now, just go back to work.
I am a citizen of the world, known by the name Dragos Roua. I'm on a never-ending trip in which I discover, experience, share, seek and create many wonderful worlds. You wanna join me?
Learn how I completely changed my thoughts and created my own millionaire mindset.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dragos_Roua
Learning to ignore is a fantastic lesson. Much more rewarding that you think. There must be an art of ignoring and they should teach it in universities. Spanning your focus in so many areas will only weaken you. Ignoring what's unimportant will free up energy and help you stay focused and productive.
2. Understand What Makes You Bored
And avoid it. Boredom is a nasty place to be. But as any other state of your being can be understood and you can identify the triggers. Once you understand that, you can safely go away from the gray zone. Takes some time but it really worth the effort.
3. Laugh More Often
Watch comedies, read comics. Throw away that ugly seriousness form your face. Laughing is a safety valve for your stress relief mechanism. It actually let it out from your body in bursts. And while you're laughing you can still learn new stuff, like personal development lessons from Dumbo.
4. Keep A Log Of Your Breakthroughs
Do you remember when you had the first major success of your life? I thought so. We tend to overlook this simple habit of writing down our feelings every time we have a major breakthrough in our lives. Keep a log of your successes. And get inspired by it.
5. Exercise
This is one the easiest and simplest way to get motivated. Just walk out from the office, start doing some pushups or just go for a short run around the house. It will instantly declutter your physical body. Every time you exercise, you produce endorphins. Endorphins are good.
6. Create A Custom Environment
You can't be motivated if you work in an environment which does not represent you. Make changes, adjust, improve. Doesn't matter if it's about your job office or your home. Whatever the space you work in, make it yours somehow, that will lower your unconscious adaptation efforts and you'll have more time dedicated to the actual tasks.
7. Read Success Stories
Like in other people success stories. Get inspired. Admire them (with caution, but do admire them). Reading about success will make it more available to you and will fuel your efforts towards its achievement. And of course, you can learn how to be successful too.
8. Switch Tasks
You will get bored if you work on the same projects for too long. Boredom kills motivation. Try having several small projects that you can land on whenever you feel you're on the verge of a burn out. Not to mention that switching tasks will instantly create fresh perspectives, helping you solve problems faster.
9. Assess Your Progress
If you work constantly you will make some progress, that's a rule. You may have the impression that you're not going anywhere but that's because you're skipping all those little milestones you go through every day. Watching back with satisfaction at what you created will surely boost your energy.
10. Talk About Your Projects
With your friends or family. Let the people know you're doing stuff. That will often make yourself aware of the fact that you're actually doing stuff and enjoy doing it. It will also create a certain level of accountability that will most likely push you forward.
11. Avoid Energy Vampires
Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. Don't get caught in such power games, avoid at all costs those energy leaks. Even if that means you'll isolate more often. It's better to do work in your own secluded realm than to try to resist to a diminisihing environment.
12. Write Clear Goals
Most of the time that translates to actually write down your goals, you already have them clear in your mind. But take them out of your mind, put them in a trusted system and move on. Your mind works better when it knows what it has to do not when it spends time figuring what it has to do.
13. Exercise Satisfaction
Once you finished some task, reward yourself. Give yourself a prize. No need to be a huge one, but just enough to create the habit. Look forward to it while you're working, wait for it, praise for it. In time you'll become addicted to this fulfillment satisfaction and you won't stop until you reach it.
14. Accept Failure
As part of the game. Failure, like success, is just a result of your actions, nothing more. One of the biggest motivation enemies is fear of failure. Fear that your outcome will turn bad. Accept it. It may turn bad, but that doesn't mean you have to stop doing what you're doing. Give your best and hope for the best.
15. Use Affirmations
Like writing down your intentions, your goals, your current status. Affirmations are a very powerful tool, hugely underrated. People find it awkward to write self-directed messages and read them out loud. News flash: you're doing this all the time, unconsciously. So why not doing it consciously? Start with a morning phrase.
16. Play Games
Impersonate people. Imitate animals. Pretend you're Sindbad the Sailor. Playing challenging games will relax your mind and at the same time will gather more resources from secret sources. A good motivation is always blended with joy. You can start with a simple game like how to get from a to b in 5 random steps.
17. Say "No"
Say "no" to distractions, to trolls, to depression. Exercising "no"'s is liberating. Too often too many commitments are making your life a continuous chore. Limit your promises and only get into things you really want to finish. Once you do that, go to a mirror, smile and start to politely exercise your "no"'s.
18. Look For Positive People
Sadness, whining and complaining doesn't play well with motivation. On the contrary. But positive, optimistic, energetic people will always shift your vibration in the right direction. Search them, find them and become their friend. Sometimes all you need to get motivated is to be surrounded by shiny happy people.
19. Difficulty Is Part Of The Game
Learn to work under pressure. Some things are more difficult than other. Accept that fact and focus on doing what you have to do not on your feelings of dissatisfaction. Difficulty is often what makes things worth doing. No sweat, no glory. Whenever I feel something is going to be tough, I'm usually more motivated to do it. The reward will be higher.
20. Create Personal Challenges
Personal challenges are short term goals, usually from 15 to 90 days. Like starting to exercise, or creating a habit from scratch in 15 days. Using personal challenges strengthen your inner power the same way exercising is strengthening your muscles. The more you do, the more motivated you feel to do even more.
21. Chose Positive Motivation
Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation.
22. Release Your Guardians
You do have guardians and some of them are pretty nasty. They won't let you do your stuff. The bad thing about your guardians is that most of the time they're working at the unconscious level, really difficult to interact with. Just accept, acknowledge and let them go. You will be much better off.
23. Enforce Your Personal Mission
You gotta have a personal mission. If you don't, go find one fast. Reinforcing your personal mission at certain intervals is surely one of the greatest motivators of all. It's like looking on a map and seeing at any moment where you are, how much do you have to go and which path you have to chose.
24. Spend Time Outside
If you can do something creative, like gardening or landscaping, even better. But it's ok even if you don't. Spending time outside of your box will clear the air inside. When you get back, everything will be fresher and shinier. And something fresher is always a nice motivator.
25. Keep A Clean Inbox
That's one of the few GTD concepts I still use and it proves to be a great motivator. A clean inbox helps a smooth thoughts flow. A smooth thoughts flow let me be in the moment without any hidden burdens. Being in the moment is usually all I need to actually start doing things.
26. Don't Aim For Perfection
It will soon drain you out. Aiming to be better is the real game. Perfection is a dead end, nothing really happens after you reached to it. Accepting that you can be better instead of perfect leaves some room for growth. And that means you have a reason to do more. And that's what we usually call motivation, right?
27. Do One Thing At A Time
Multitasking is a myth. Even computers processors aren't really doing multi-tasking, that's what we perceive. Instead they have a single frequency and several parallel buses managing information, faking a multi-tasking activity. Multitasking is creating internal conflicts, both in humans and in computers. You end up spending more time solving those conflicts than actually working.
28. Keep A Source Of Inspiring Readings
You're not always completely down, most of the time you're just averagish, just one sentence away from your best shape. Be sure to keep around a list of inspiring readings. Quotes, blog posts, ebooks, whatever works for you. You can start with 100 ways to live a better life, for instance.
29. Put On Some Good Music
Just let it there, floating around, don't turn the volume knob. Just enough to recreate a pleasant atmosphere. Music speaks to areas you can't control with logical tools, yet is so powerful that can completely shift your mood in a second. The only thing better than silence is good music.
30. Don't Fall Into The Productivity Trap
It's not how much you do, but how much of it really matters. Doing stuff just for filling up notebooks with tasks won't make you feel motivated. On the other side, whenever you're doing something that matters, your planing and organizing activities will just flow.
31. Keep Your Life Lenses Clean
Your camera objective may be blurred but you don't know. This is why you get the same picture again and again, this is why feel stuck and can't seem to see any progress. Sometimes all you have to do is to clean up your lenses. It takes a little bit of courage but it's worth the trouble.
32. Clean Up Your House
I know you need motivation for that too, but believe me, it's a fantastic way to clean up your internal garbage. Cleaning up your house is not a chore, it's a necessity. Your action paths may be clogged the same way your floor is sticky. And most of the time unsticking the floor will open your mind again.
33. Stop Reading This And Get To Work
It was fun reading it, I'm sure. But it won't get things done in your place. Inspiration is a good motivator, but don't abuse it. Now, that you are all energized, it's time for you to get back to work. Of course, you can bookmark this post for future motivation sessions, but for now, just go back to work.
I am a citizen of the world, known by the name Dragos Roua. I'm on a never-ending trip in which I discover, experience, share, seek and create many wonderful worlds. You wanna join me?
Learn how I completely changed my thoughts and created my own millionaire mindset.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dragos_Roua
Sunday, October 11, 2009
A Good Mind Set for Success
People talk about mindsets and millionaire mindsets all the time.
Finding the millionaire mindset is like a holy grail in investing and entrepreneurship.
I would describe a good mindset for success like this:
1) Know what you want, and be able to explain it.
2) Make a plan and two back up plans that take you to where you want to be. Set subgoals from where you are now to where you want to be.
3) Get help from others, ie a mastermind alliance or business consultant. Talk to people who have done what you want to do.
4) Resolve in advance to tackle the setbacks and challenges that will arise.
5) Write down all of the benefits of reaching your goal. Doing this will reinforce the desire to reach the goal and deal with the obstacles. It may also help you to define what you want.
6) Take action on your goal every day.
7) Read "The Forbidden Book of Getting What You Want." This book will get you going on developing the proper mindset. Despite some typos, this book delivers. You can read the reviews by clicking on the ad at your right.
Finding the millionaire mindset is like a holy grail in investing and entrepreneurship.
I would describe a good mindset for success like this:
1) Know what you want, and be able to explain it.
2) Make a plan and two back up plans that take you to where you want to be. Set subgoals from where you are now to where you want to be.
3) Get help from others, ie a mastermind alliance or business consultant. Talk to people who have done what you want to do.
4) Resolve in advance to tackle the setbacks and challenges that will arise.
5) Write down all of the benefits of reaching your goal. Doing this will reinforce the desire to reach the goal and deal with the obstacles. It may also help you to define what you want.
6) Take action on your goal every day.
7) Read "The Forbidden Book of Getting What You Want." This book will get you going on developing the proper mindset. Despite some typos, this book delivers. You can read the reviews by clicking on the ad at your right.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Success Quotes
"Success is goals, and all else is commentary"
"Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects."
-- Brian Tracy
"Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects."
-- Brian Tracy
Monday, June 16, 2008
What to do When You've Lost Your Motivation
Sometimes goals take so long to achieve that we start to lose the initial enthusiasm that sparked us to take our first baby steps toward that goal. You may find yourself questioning whether the goal was realistic. You may be feeling unmotivated to take the steps you know you need to take to continue making progress. All of a sudden, you find yourself distracted by other things that have nothing to do with your goal.
It is hard to motivate yourself. And in the short run, it is much easier to just give up. But you can't! Giving up only turns your goal into just another dream you've wanted to accomplish, and can increase your stress, frustration, and unhappiness with your life over the long term. If you've been dreaming about this goal for a long time, then it's too valuable to just give up on so easily.
So how do you find that motivation to keep going? Well, one thing you can do is go back to the source of your initial motivation.
What made you passionate/excited/interested in this goal in the first place? When did you first think about it? Why did you decide to take steps toward achieving this goal? How did you go about taking the initial steps toward your goal?
Take a moment to write in a journal about the beginnings of your goal. Where did it all begin and where did the motivation come from in the first place? This journal can be referred back to whenever you need a motivational boost.
Another idea is to go back through your initial drafts/business plans/ideas. Look over old notes and materials that you first came up with. Take yourself back in time to when everything was fresh and new and you could envision your future with excitement. That future still exists for you. Some of those old notes and materials may hold nuggets of brilliance that you haven't let shine yet.
Finally, another idea is to find a "motivation partner." It's very difficult to achieve your goals on your own. All successful people had someone to bounce their ideas off to keep them on track towards their goal. Enlist the help of a friend, mentor, or coach to help you stay motivated, keep your ideas fresh, and maintain your focus on the creation of your dream. Having someone you can turn to when you start to lose energy on the way to achieving your goal can be invaluable.
It's very common to lose steam on the way to achieving your goal. We give all our energy to it in the beginning and then reality sets in. This is when we need our energy the most. Try some of these ideas. Success is a more exciting journey when you're not alone.
I have been helping people reach their personal and professional goals for the past 14 years. There's nothing more satisfying than helping someone reach their potential for success. I would like the opportunity to help you reach your goals. I am a Professional Coach with a Ph.D. in Psychology and a specialty in Goal Achievement and Transitions. Check out my website to learn more about me then call me for a free consultation.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sandra_Thebaud
It is hard to motivate yourself. And in the short run, it is much easier to just give up. But you can't! Giving up only turns your goal into just another dream you've wanted to accomplish, and can increase your stress, frustration, and unhappiness with your life over the long term. If you've been dreaming about this goal for a long time, then it's too valuable to just give up on so easily.
So how do you find that motivation to keep going? Well, one thing you can do is go back to the source of your initial motivation.
What made you passionate/excited/interested in this goal in the first place? When did you first think about it? Why did you decide to take steps toward achieving this goal? How did you go about taking the initial steps toward your goal?
Take a moment to write in a journal about the beginnings of your goal. Where did it all begin and where did the motivation come from in the first place? This journal can be referred back to whenever you need a motivational boost.
Another idea is to go back through your initial drafts/business plans/ideas. Look over old notes and materials that you first came up with. Take yourself back in time to when everything was fresh and new and you could envision your future with excitement. That future still exists for you. Some of those old notes and materials may hold nuggets of brilliance that you haven't let shine yet.
Finally, another idea is to find a "motivation partner." It's very difficult to achieve your goals on your own. All successful people had someone to bounce their ideas off to keep them on track towards their goal. Enlist the help of a friend, mentor, or coach to help you stay motivated, keep your ideas fresh, and maintain your focus on the creation of your dream. Having someone you can turn to when you start to lose energy on the way to achieving your goal can be invaluable.
It's very common to lose steam on the way to achieving your goal. We give all our energy to it in the beginning and then reality sets in. This is when we need our energy the most. Try some of these ideas. Success is a more exciting journey when you're not alone.
I have been helping people reach their personal and professional goals for the past 14 years. There's nothing more satisfying than helping someone reach their potential for success. I would like the opportunity to help you reach your goals. I am a Professional Coach with a Ph.D. in Psychology and a specialty in Goal Achievement and Transitions. Check out my website to learn more about me then call me for a free consultation.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sandra_Thebaud
Monday, June 2, 2008
How to Stay Motivated Around Negative People
The world is filled with a great deal of negativity at times. Negative people are those who see no hope for themselves and because they see none for themselves want to try to take hope from others by discouraging them. Negative people don't want to see you succeed because they haven't succeeded. Some negative people want to keep you where they are themselves: in the pit of self-pity and negativity; others are the loved ones that fear for you and don't believe you can succeed and they don't want to see you hurt, so they try to dissuade you from trying anything new.
Negative people are practically the most difficult kind of people to be around, especially when things are not going so well. Negative people complain about this or that and see problems or imperfections in almost everything. Negative people are the ones who are rude to the cashier or push their way through the line. They are the ones who don't have anything good to say about life, even when life has been good to them.
When things are going well, we can generally fend off negativity from within and without fairly easily. But when we hit a problem in life, negative people have a way of making things look worse. Their insight and advice generally make things appear to be worse than they actually are. The statements of negative people are frequently pointed at "you" , as in, " I told you you couldn't do it." The problem is that if you hear statements similar to this often enough you can actually start internalizing it, or believing it.
A really good way to stay motivated despite all the negativity in the world is to take responsibility for your life and your actions. When we take responsibility for our own lives and move forward toward our goals regardless of what others might think, especially those negative others, you can be positive. This movement forward generates motivation. A sense of pride in yourself will follow.
Another way to stay motivated when negative people are trying to discourage you is to know what you want out of life. This is related to taking responsibility for your life. If you really know what you want then no-one can discourage you from accomplishing it. Knowing what you want means knowing who are.
What happens sometimes is the negative person sees you moving forward, but rather than encourage you they will attempt to discourage you. When this happens it has to do with the negative person's jealousy. If this should be the case you need to separate yourself from that negative person. Don't listen to their negativity.
Belief is another weapon against the negativity of anyone around you. If you believe in yourself you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, regardless of what other people think. There are always going to be people who will attempt to steer you away from your goals by saying you don't have what it takes. However, when you reflect upon the belief of yourself you will find the motivation you need to push forward.
Goal setting is another way to overcome negative people and motivate yourself. When we set goals we set markers for ourselves. As we hit each marker we acquire a sense of accomplishment. This fuels our motivation. Negative people can steal your motivation away, if you let them. The key is not to let them do that, by utilizing strategies that keep your motivation intact. We can't avoid all the negative people in the world, but we can do things for ourselves to maintain our motivation.
Peter Murphy is a peak performance expert. He recently produced a very popular free report that reveals how to crush procrastination and sustain lasting motivation. Apply now because it is available for a limited time only at: http://www.getmotivatedstaymotivated.com/blog
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Murphy
Negative people are practically the most difficult kind of people to be around, especially when things are not going so well. Negative people complain about this or that and see problems or imperfections in almost everything. Negative people are the ones who are rude to the cashier or push their way through the line. They are the ones who don't have anything good to say about life, even when life has been good to them.
When things are going well, we can generally fend off negativity from within and without fairly easily. But when we hit a problem in life, negative people have a way of making things look worse. Their insight and advice generally make things appear to be worse than they actually are. The statements of negative people are frequently pointed at "you" , as in, " I told you you couldn't do it." The problem is that if you hear statements similar to this often enough you can actually start internalizing it, or believing it.
A really good way to stay motivated despite all the negativity in the world is to take responsibility for your life and your actions. When we take responsibility for our own lives and move forward toward our goals regardless of what others might think, especially those negative others, you can be positive. This movement forward generates motivation. A sense of pride in yourself will follow.
Another way to stay motivated when negative people are trying to discourage you is to know what you want out of life. This is related to taking responsibility for your life. If you really know what you want then no-one can discourage you from accomplishing it. Knowing what you want means knowing who are.
What happens sometimes is the negative person sees you moving forward, but rather than encourage you they will attempt to discourage you. When this happens it has to do with the negative person's jealousy. If this should be the case you need to separate yourself from that negative person. Don't listen to their negativity.
Belief is another weapon against the negativity of anyone around you. If you believe in yourself you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, regardless of what other people think. There are always going to be people who will attempt to steer you away from your goals by saying you don't have what it takes. However, when you reflect upon the belief of yourself you will find the motivation you need to push forward.
Goal setting is another way to overcome negative people and motivate yourself. When we set goals we set markers for ourselves. As we hit each marker we acquire a sense of accomplishment. This fuels our motivation. Negative people can steal your motivation away, if you let them. The key is not to let them do that, by utilizing strategies that keep your motivation intact. We can't avoid all the negative people in the world, but we can do things for ourselves to maintain our motivation.
Peter Murphy is a peak performance expert. He recently produced a very popular free report that reveals how to crush procrastination and sustain lasting motivation. Apply now because it is available for a limited time only at: http://www.getmotivatedstaymotivated.com/blog
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Murphy
Friday, May 30, 2008
Go From Rags to Riches
The first thing you want to do, in order to go from rags to riches is set goals.
Set reachable short term goals in every area of your life. Then, set your definite major purpose. Your definite major purpose will probably be to have one or two million dollars in assets.
Take action on your goals every single day. As Dave Ramsey puts it, get “Gazelle intense”, as Tony Robbins puts it, “total focused intensity”.
The next thing to do is live as far below your means as you can. Quit financing things. Do not waste any money. Make a budget. Quit smoking. Tell your mooch buddies to take a hike.
Next, work your heart out. Take on extra hours and extra responsibility. Be prompt. Don’t be a pain. Don’t be a slacker.
Now after you get used to all the stuff mentioned above, start studying, reading, and listening to audio CDs. You need to study small business management, investments, including stocks and real estate, business law, and anything else that will help you in your career or in managing passive assets. Get a library card and enroll in classes if you can swing it. Why should you do this? Because if/when the cash starts to come in, you need to know how to put it to work for you in passive businesses and investments. Don’t do bad deals or get ripped off and lose your hard earned money.
Think about your dreams. Your dreams have to be semi real. What would you love to do as a career or business? Learn all you can about whatever it may be. If you have an idea that could become a real business, then research and test your ideas. If your venture fails, you will still have gained knowledge and experience which you can use over and over. The real losers never take action!
Next, open a Roth IRA or the type of retirement account that is offered in your country. Do not worry if you cannot maximize the contributions at first. Save what you can in your Roth and also start to build an emergency fund. Financial councilor/talk show host Dave Ramsey calls emergency funds “Murphy Repellant”, an excellent analogy. Don’t let Murphy back in your life.
After your little nest egg reaches sufficient size, find an excellent broker. Never touch your principle!
Another thing to do is to improve your peer group. Ditch the go nowhere crowd. Let people laugh at you. You may well be kept down by a bad peer group.
Consider forming a mastermind alliance.
Don’t make excuses. Take responsibility for your life and take action every day. If you need help don’t be afraid to ask for it.
Be different from the masses. Take charge of your life now and get started. Many people never succeed because the afraid to start small.
Set reachable short term goals in every area of your life. Then, set your definite major purpose. Your definite major purpose will probably be to have one or two million dollars in assets.
Take action on your goals every single day. As Dave Ramsey puts it, get “Gazelle intense”, as Tony Robbins puts it, “total focused intensity”.
The next thing to do is live as far below your means as you can. Quit financing things. Do not waste any money. Make a budget. Quit smoking. Tell your mooch buddies to take a hike.
Next, work your heart out. Take on extra hours and extra responsibility. Be prompt. Don’t be a pain. Don’t be a slacker.
Now after you get used to all the stuff mentioned above, start studying, reading, and listening to audio CDs. You need to study small business management, investments, including stocks and real estate, business law, and anything else that will help you in your career or in managing passive assets. Get a library card and enroll in classes if you can swing it. Why should you do this? Because if/when the cash starts to come in, you need to know how to put it to work for you in passive businesses and investments. Don’t do bad deals or get ripped off and lose your hard earned money.
Think about your dreams. Your dreams have to be semi real. What would you love to do as a career or business? Learn all you can about whatever it may be. If you have an idea that could become a real business, then research and test your ideas. If your venture fails, you will still have gained knowledge and experience which you can use over and over. The real losers never take action!
Next, open a Roth IRA or the type of retirement account that is offered in your country. Do not worry if you cannot maximize the contributions at first. Save what you can in your Roth and also start to build an emergency fund. Financial councilor/talk show host Dave Ramsey calls emergency funds “Murphy Repellant”, an excellent analogy. Don’t let Murphy back in your life.
After your little nest egg reaches sufficient size, find an excellent broker. Never touch your principle!
Another thing to do is to improve your peer group. Ditch the go nowhere crowd. Let people laugh at you. You may well be kept down by a bad peer group.
Consider forming a mastermind alliance.
Don’t make excuses. Take responsibility for your life and take action every day. If you need help don’t be afraid to ask for it.
Be different from the masses. Take charge of your life now and get started. Many people never succeed because the afraid to start small.
Go From Rags to Riches
This is an article I wrote a couple years ago. I plan to revise it soon.
If you are stuck in the rat race and getting kicked around by life, I ay be able to help you! There just may be hope.
The first thing is you have to set goals. Set goals that are worthwhile, realistic, but something you must really stretch yourself for. Set short term and long term goals. Set health goals, debt reduction and savings goals. Set any goal you need to set and write the goals down. Take a hard look at what you have to do to improve yourself enough to reach your goal. Be honest with yourself.
The second thing to do is to turn your drive time into learning time and turn idle time into learning or working time. Search for ideas you can apply to your situation. Take notes on your reading. Read about successful people and start to do some of what they do. Having good role models is important.
The third thing to do is to start a long term savings plan. Complement this plan by selling unwanted items and collectibles and then build an emergency fund, and/or invest. Make a detailed budget and figure out what you can save each payday. Don’t put 100% of your spare funds into your IRA. Have an emergency fund. Your IRA cannot be your emergency fund. If your job does not pay a livable wage, start search for a new or second job or start a small business on the side.
One of the most obvious things to do is to try to get a raise. Resolve to always be punctual. Try to improve your appearance. Don’t turn into a neurotic or pathological nut trying to catapult herself to CEO of the business. Just do a good job. Get a little bit better every day.
After saving up some money, having some goals under your belt and having a better reference from your employer, start learning new skills. Learn skills that will help you find your new job. You may want to learn computer programs, sales, Spanish, accounting, get the nuts and bolts of a skill and add the skills to your resume. Focus on something lucrative and focus on a field that is growing.
Be persistent. Don’t let one setback or a series of setbacks stop you! Keep plugging away. Don’t get frustrated or bent out of shape. Good luck!
David K Drews runs http://www.independentwealth.us/ a web site that will help you get out of the rat race. http://www.independentwealth.us/ offers a fairly large online community where you can make contacts and find motivation.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Drews
If you are stuck in the rat race and getting kicked around by life, I ay be able to help you! There just may be hope.
The first thing is you have to set goals. Set goals that are worthwhile, realistic, but something you must really stretch yourself for. Set short term and long term goals. Set health goals, debt reduction and savings goals. Set any goal you need to set and write the goals down. Take a hard look at what you have to do to improve yourself enough to reach your goal. Be honest with yourself.
The second thing to do is to turn your drive time into learning time and turn idle time into learning or working time. Search for ideas you can apply to your situation. Take notes on your reading. Read about successful people and start to do some of what they do. Having good role models is important.
The third thing to do is to start a long term savings plan. Complement this plan by selling unwanted items and collectibles and then build an emergency fund, and/or invest. Make a detailed budget and figure out what you can save each payday. Don’t put 100% of your spare funds into your IRA. Have an emergency fund. Your IRA cannot be your emergency fund. If your job does not pay a livable wage, start search for a new or second job or start a small business on the side.
One of the most obvious things to do is to try to get a raise. Resolve to always be punctual. Try to improve your appearance. Don’t turn into a neurotic or pathological nut trying to catapult herself to CEO of the business. Just do a good job. Get a little bit better every day.
After saving up some money, having some goals under your belt and having a better reference from your employer, start learning new skills. Learn skills that will help you find your new job. You may want to learn computer programs, sales, Spanish, accounting, get the nuts and bolts of a skill and add the skills to your resume. Focus on something lucrative and focus on a field that is growing.
Be persistent. Don’t let one setback or a series of setbacks stop you! Keep plugging away. Don’t get frustrated or bent out of shape. Good luck!
David K Drews runs http://www.independentwealth.us/ a web site that will help you get out of the rat race. http://www.independentwealth.us/ offers a fairly large online community where you can make contacts and find motivation.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Drews
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Goals: Three Papers to Review Every Morning
In order to achieve your major goal, you will need a clear plan. First, write out your major goal sheet, similar to the way Napoleon Hill and Brian Tracy instructed. Include:
1) State your major goal, 2) Lay out your plan for achieving your goal, 3) List the benefits of achieving this goal (i.e. why you want it), 4) Your current status (be honest), 5) The deadline you set for yourself to achieve your goal, 6) List at least seven obstacles to achieving your goal, 7) List the knowledge you will have to acquire to achieve your goal, and 8) A list of the people who will help. If you have to make adjustments to your plan, that is fine. Make adjustments as needed. But I would not change your major goal.
Second, fill up a page with your greatest achievements. Include things like awards in school or at your job or financial accomplishments, personal accomplishments, sports accomplishments, etc, etc. Fill up one page with your biggest achievements, anything will do! Review this sheet after you review your major goal statement. Sounds kinda wild, but it is a good thing to do before undertaking a challenging goal. (I got this idea from Larry Waschka in his book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Rich".)
Third, ask yourself this question: Why have you not achieved your major goal already? Write down every reasonable explanation you can think of. Make sure you avoid the mistakes you made before and grasp opportunity the next time. Learn from your mistakes.
Type up these three papers and review them every morning. Doing so will keep you focused on your major goal and give you the confidence and motivation to achieve it.
Good luck!!
David K Drews is the web master of http://www.independentwealth.us/
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Drews
1) State your major goal, 2) Lay out your plan for achieving your goal, 3) List the benefits of achieving this goal (i.e. why you want it), 4) Your current status (be honest), 5) The deadline you set for yourself to achieve your goal, 6) List at least seven obstacles to achieving your goal, 7) List the knowledge you will have to acquire to achieve your goal, and 8) A list of the people who will help. If you have to make adjustments to your plan, that is fine. Make adjustments as needed. But I would not change your major goal.
Second, fill up a page with your greatest achievements. Include things like awards in school or at your job or financial accomplishments, personal accomplishments, sports accomplishments, etc, etc. Fill up one page with your biggest achievements, anything will do! Review this sheet after you review your major goal statement. Sounds kinda wild, but it is a good thing to do before undertaking a challenging goal. (I got this idea from Larry Waschka in his book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Rich".)
Third, ask yourself this question: Why have you not achieved your major goal already? Write down every reasonable explanation you can think of. Make sure you avoid the mistakes you made before and grasp opportunity the next time. Learn from your mistakes.
Type up these three papers and review them every morning. Doing so will keep you focused on your major goal and give you the confidence and motivation to achieve it.
Good luck!!
David K Drews is the web master of http://www.independentwealth.us/
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_Drews
Monday, April 14, 2008
Book Review - Brian Tracy _ Goals
Goals, by Brian Tracy, is an out of this world manual on goals. The 21 chapters cover everything you could possibly ask about goal setting. Brian teaches you to achieve personal, financial, and professional goals. The chapter on using your super conscious mind was truly compelling and worth reading. Brian also chronicles his rags to riches story in this book. Brian's personal story is up there with Tony Robbins and Mark Cuban. I have read the book twice and plan to get the audio download soon.
You can't go wrong on with this book. Goals is available in the bookstore at http://www.financialindependenceuniversity.com/.
You can't go wrong on with this book. Goals is available in the bookstore at http://www.financialindependenceuniversity.com/.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Law of Clarity
October 25, 2007
The Law of Clarity
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That's why we say that "Success is goals, and all else is commentary." People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and under all circumstances.
The Three Keys to High AchievementYou could even say that the three keys to high achievement are, "Clarity, Clarity, Clarity," with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really want.
Write and Rewrite Your GoalsThe more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them, the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the things that don't help to get the things you really want.
The Seven Step Process for Achieving GoalsHere, once more, is the simple, seven-step process that you can use to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before.
First, decide exactly what you want in each area of your life. Be specific!
Second, write it down, clearly and in detail;
Third, set a specific deadline. If it is a large goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and write them down in order;
Fourth, make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal. As you think of new items, add them to your list;
Fifth, organize the items on your list into a plan by placing them in the proper sequence and priority;
Sixth, take action immediately on the most important thing you can do on your plan. This is very important!
Seventh, do something every day that moves you toward the attainment of one or more of your important goals. Maintain the momentum!
Join the Top 3%Fewer than three percent of adults have written goals and plans that they work on every single day. When you sit down and write out your goals, you move yourself into the top 3% of people in our society. And you will soon start to get the same results that they do.
Review Your Goals DailyStudy and review your goals every day to be sure they are still your most important goals. You will find yourself adding goals to your list as time passes. You will also find yourself deleting goals that are no longer as important as you once thought. Whatever your goals are, plan them out thoroughly, on paper, and work on them every single day. This is the key to peak performance and maximum achievement.
Action ExercisesHere is how you can apply this law immediately:
First, make a list of ten goals that you would like to achieve in the coming year. Write them down in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already accomplished them.
Second, from your list of ten goals, ask yourself, "What one goal, if I were to accomplish it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?" Whatever it is, put a circle around this goal and move it to a separate sheet of paper.
Third, practice the seven-step method described above on this goal. Set a deadline, make a plan, and put it into action and work on it every day. Make this goal your major definite purpose for the weeks and months ahead.
Get ready for some amazing changes in your life.
www.briantracy.com
- FIU highly recommends listening to Brian Tracy's audiobooks. The best Brian Tracy books are available at our bookstore.
The Law of Clarity
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That's why we say that "Success is goals, and all else is commentary." People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and under all circumstances.
The Three Keys to High AchievementYou could even say that the three keys to high achievement are, "Clarity, Clarity, Clarity," with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really want.
Write and Rewrite Your GoalsThe more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them, the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the things that don't help to get the things you really want.
The Seven Step Process for Achieving GoalsHere, once more, is the simple, seven-step process that you can use to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before.
First, decide exactly what you want in each area of your life. Be specific!
Second, write it down, clearly and in detail;
Third, set a specific deadline. If it is a large goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and write them down in order;
Fourth, make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal. As you think of new items, add them to your list;
Fifth, organize the items on your list into a plan by placing them in the proper sequence and priority;
Sixth, take action immediately on the most important thing you can do on your plan. This is very important!
Seventh, do something every day that moves you toward the attainment of one or more of your important goals. Maintain the momentum!
Join the Top 3%Fewer than three percent of adults have written goals and plans that they work on every single day. When you sit down and write out your goals, you move yourself into the top 3% of people in our society. And you will soon start to get the same results that they do.
Review Your Goals DailyStudy and review your goals every day to be sure they are still your most important goals. You will find yourself adding goals to your list as time passes. You will also find yourself deleting goals that are no longer as important as you once thought. Whatever your goals are, plan them out thoroughly, on paper, and work on them every single day. This is the key to peak performance and maximum achievement.
Action ExercisesHere is how you can apply this law immediately:
First, make a list of ten goals that you would like to achieve in the coming year. Write them down in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already accomplished them.
Second, from your list of ten goals, ask yourself, "What one goal, if I were to accomplish it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?" Whatever it is, put a circle around this goal and move it to a separate sheet of paper.
Third, practice the seven-step method described above on this goal. Set a deadline, make a plan, and put it into action and work on it every day. Make this goal your major definite purpose for the weeks and months ahead.
Get ready for some amazing changes in your life.
www.briantracy.com
- FIU highly recommends listening to Brian Tracy's audiobooks. The best Brian Tracy books are available at our bookstore.
Own a Private Island
If one of your goals is to own your own private island, take a look at:
www.privateislandsonline.com and www.financialindependenceuniversity.com
Private island online is an excellent source for finding your island and reading about island living. FIU will show you how to get the money to buy your island.
www.privateislandsonline.com and www.financialindependenceuniversity.com
Private island online is an excellent source for finding your island and reading about island living. FIU will show you how to get the money to buy your island.
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