Goal Setting

Sunday, 6th January 2008

Happy New Year Guys and Girls! Hope you all had a great time in celebrating new year’s eve and are ready to Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! in 2008.

Every time the new year comes around everyone talks about what their new years resolutions are so I thought I’d spend this week’s post on goal setting and how to actually achieve your goals. Again, this is one of those topics that I could write a couple of books on but for right now here’s the gist of goal setting.

Anyone can easily say they have goals but very few people actually write them down. So this is step one. Write down all your goals and write them in present tense and be very specific what you want. For example if you have a goal of wanting to be an internationally famous movie star, then write something like “By December 31st 2008 I am an internationally famous movie star”.

The second step is to prioritise these goals and work out what is REALLY important for you to achieve right now. These become your current goals and what you will focus on, on a daily basis.

The third step is to review these goals as frequently as possible. The more you review the more current they are in your mind and all of your decision making becomes centred on achieving your goals.

Its weird how this actually works but the basic premise is when you write something down your sub conscious mind actually begins to create thoughts surrounding these ideas and eventually you recognise opportunities that will lead you to fulfilling these ideas. This is better explained by the universal law of attraction.

The final step in the goal setting process is an unusual one, but its quite important. The secret to achieving your goals, is to act like you already have achieved them. The biggest reason that people don’t achieve their goals is that they do not commit them to memory and spend time prioritising their daily activities in order to help them work towards achieving their goals, ie they don’t change the way they think in order to achieve a mindset that will actually help them achieve their goals.

I was reading Robert Kiyosaki’s book Cashflow Quadrant and in there is a snippet about goal setting. Robert talks about a goal setting seminar he once attended and the instructor provided some good examples of the importance of changing a person’s thinking in order to achieve their goals. One example was of a person who wants a perfect body. They go on a strict diet and exercise routine and they achieve their perfect body but are unable to maintain it for long periods of time because while they modified their diet and exercise routine, they did not modify their mindset and old habbits (which they’ve spent their whole lives developing) easily creep back. The whole premise of the seminar was “Be-Do-Have” which basically means BE the person whom you want to be, DO what that person does and HAVE goals that achieve this.

For example, say you want to lose those few extra kgs you put on for christmas. BE the person who has the great body, work out what they would DO to have achieved it, and maintain it and finally HAVE some goals that will help you achieve it. Its amazing what you can do by simply changing the way you think.

So good luck for 2008 and happy goal setting!

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

Author: AJ Kulatunga

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dream, goal setting, robert kiyosaki