| Four Simple Steps to Making Goals Work | | | | Now, ask yourself these essential questions: How |
| You have heard it before. Goals are secrets of | | | | will it feel for you to own a big powerful luxurious |
| the Champions. You have probably listed your | | | | brand new BMW? What will your emotional state |
| goals as instructed from a book, an audio course | | | | being be like? Describe the feeling. Feel the |
| or personal development trainer, but alas! The | | | | feelings of achieving your goals. What is it that |
| anticipated results weren't yielded. Why. | | | | you are really after? Is it self-esteem, |
| Elite athletes and successful entrepreneurs | | | | self-confidence or are you looking for approval |
| dedicate their achievement to setting goals. | | | | from society pressures? |
| Successful sports persons/team managers | | | | Take enough time to relate your goals with your |
| coaches have integrated goals in their coaching | | | | deep seated emotions so as to find congruence |
| strategies. They tell us goal setting is a must; it | | | | between your goals and your values as an |
| works, full stop. So where do we go wrong? | | | | individual, as this is the cornerstone of achieving |
| Let's explore this together in four simple but | | | | your goals. |
| crucial steps. We are not going to go through the | | | | Your goals MUST match your individual values and |
| goal setting techniques per se, we are just going | | | | they must start a ripple of desire to actualise |
| to identify and fill in those missing links. | | | | them. If this won't happen then you will end up |
| Step one: Identify the Goal/s | | | | 'sabotaging' them. |
| Ask yourself; what do you want? We, as human | | | | So, next time you want to keep those eyes on |
| beings are naturally goal seeking. We move | | | | the prize, don't just see yourself (visualise) 'with |
| towards what preoccupies our minds, what we | | | | your BMW' getting excited, go deeper and feel |
| think of. As the famous aphorism goes; Energy | | | | the underlying emotions, the deep-seated reason, |
| follows thought. | | | | the sense of accomplishing a goal, the heightened |
| If you don't establish a conscious direction you | | | | self-esteem/self-confidence/self-efficacy; the |
| desire to move to, you may be moving in a | | | | reinforcement of your core individual values. |
| direction you don't want. This might appear to be | | | | Step three: Enhance the passion |
| easy, but the fact is, very few people are clear | | | | Your goals must ignite the passion within you, the |
| about exactly what it is they want to achieve, | | | | desire to reach them, and most importantly this |
| and hence have got no conscious direction. They | | | | passion, the yearning, must be constant. There |
| bump from wall to wall. | | | | are two basic ways to keep the hunger to reach |
| Set yourself apart from the majority of aimlessly | | | | your goals alive. |
| drifting masses by knowing exactly what you | | | | The first one is daily creative visualisations; the |
| want to achieve. | | | | second is writing your goals and read them at |
| Step two: Find the relationship between your goals | | | | least twice a day. Once after you wake up and |
| and your values | | | | again before you go to bed. When you read or |
| Now, for the most powerful question, ask | | | | visualise your goals, incorporate the emotions that |
| yourself why you want to achieve those | | | | go with achieving your goals. Use anchoring to |
| particular goals. | | | | augment the effects. |
| Do you want a BMW? Why? You are saying it is | | | | Step four: Experience your goals as being a reality |
| because you have always loved big powerful | | | | Every time you read or visualise your goals live |
| luxurious car? No, that is not the answer you are | | | | the experience of your goals as if you have |
| looking for. Is it status you are looking for, or | | | | achieved them. This helps the mind to accept that |
| make yourself attractive? No. all these are | | | | what you tell it is true, and it will go to work to |
| by-products of an underlying reason, I call them | | | | help you achieve your goals by programming the |
| 'conscious justifications'. | | | | goals into your subconscious mind. |