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22 April 2010, 20:45
Achieve Your Goals with Jack Canfield
WISE WORDS
“You should set a goal big enough that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming.”
–Jim Rohn
Stay on Track to Achieve Your Goals
It's now past the first quarter of 2010. Have you made progress with the goals you defined for the year? If you are like most people you may have stalled in your momentum. Here are a couple of ideas to ensure you stay on track in achieving the goals you have already set or for new goals you are establishing now.
Do at least the minimum. Sometimes people worry if you set a goal too big that you may set yourself up for failure. Raymond Aaron teaches what he calls MTO: M stands for minimum, T is target, and O is outrageous. He suggests you first determine the minimum. Let's say your goal is to clean out your office. The minimum could be taking the piles of papers around your desk and stacking them into one neat pile. That would be the "minimum," where you'd feel like you did at least something in your office. The "target" would be to take all of those papers and create a filing system to put them away. And the "outrageous" version would be if you take everything out of the office, paint it, get a new desk, build shelves, label all of your boxes and then take each item one at a time and decide if you want to put it back in the office or give it away.
What happens with this process is that people will do the minimum because it is the minimum, it's easy. But when anyone starts something they've been putting off, like cleaning your office, they start to develop momentum. Once you get started you'll have a hard time stopping. This is a good system to use around thinking that if the goal is too big, you'll fail. You can't fail if you set a minimum, target, and outrageous goal. Let the outrageous goal be the one that really stretches you; let your target be the thing based on past experience you realistically can commit to; and minimum is doing at least something.
Write them down and review. It's also important to write down your goals and look at them at least twice every day. It's been said that "people who write their goals down CONSISTENTLY, earn an average of NINE times more income in their lifetimes than those who don't.*" You should also read them out loud and take time to visualize the goal as if it is already complete. This will help you get into the emotion of having achieved the goal and help activate your subconscious mind.
Jack Canfield Tip:
"Writing down your goals is essential to achieving them. Those who write down their goals are more likely to achieve them than people who only think about them."
Enjoy!
Margarita Nomeikiene
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