Finally, Achieve The Goals You Set!
Sometimes, we just don’t know enough about what we are trying to achieve. Stuart Wilde
If I had a penny for each time clients ask the question….
What do I need to do to guarantee my goal achievement?
If you had to guess, what would you say that the answer is? If you guessed that you have to determine what you want, you are right. The funny thing is most people fail to
to do this step right and so they don’t focus on what they truly desire to achieve.
How can you make absolutely sure that you are clear?
Easy! Can you tell me in 2 to 3 sentences what it is that you want to achieve and why you want to achieve it? If you can, then congratulations, you are well on your way. But be careful here, make sure you are compelling to yourself when you say what you want and why you want it.
The all time favorite goal that a lot of people have is to be rich. Excellent. What is rich to you? Is it having $10,000, $1,000,000 or $100,000,000? Or maybe it is being able to take 3 holidays a year in 5 star hotels. Or traveling the world.
Once you got clear about what you want and you established exactly what rich means to you, tell yourself why this is a worthy goal to accomplish. Why do you value being rich? What does being rich do for you? What do you want to be able to exchange rich for?
Ok, you know what you want and you know why you want it. Now what do you do?
Yes, you are right if you said that you ask how it makes you feel to achieve this goal. Put yourself in that picture. Think about you with the achieved goal. What is it like to have it? Understand how it makes you feel means getting to the essence of what and why you want the goal.
What Do I mean by Essence?
Let me first say that this step is as critical as the ones before, because, you see, the essence is the crucial, and often unchanging, element of what you want to achieve. You must take the time to really feel the essence of what the goal achieved represents for you.
It may just be the time to take a different approach to goal achievement…
Go ahead. Take this different approach and ask yourself:
1) What do I want?
2) Do I really want it? Why do I want it?
3) What is the unchangeable, unique element of how achieving this goal will make me feel?
Invest the time and get clear about what you want up front. Remember that, sooner or later, you will need to do this anyway.
To Your Continued Success and Passion!
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