Power of Goals

I subscribe to a service called the Genius Network, sponsored by Joe Polish and every month they send out a CD program covering many different topics.

One of the tapes that you can get for free (and I highly recommend that you do) is an interview Joe does with Brian Tracy. By the way, if you do not know who Brian Tracy is, he is a best-selling author who never graduated high school. He has many CD programs as well as books that are a must for anyone at any point in their life.

So the question that is answered in the program is "How do you get from where you are to where you want to be?"

Where do you want to be in 5 years? If your life were perfect, what would it look like? What would you be doing? How much would you weigh, how much money would you be eraning?

Now what are the specific steps you would have to take to get to where you want to be. The next step is to take out a piece of paper, write goals and today's date at the top.

Write a minimum of ten goals written in the present tense. All the goals start with "I am" or "I weigh"  i.e. - "I earn $x amount of money per year." "I drive a __________ car." "I weigh ______ lbs." Look over your goals and pick one and write down, "Which one goal, if I achieved it would have the greatest positive impact on my future. Go over your list and choose one that will help you the very most.

Write that goal on a seperate sheet of paper and set a deadline to achieve it by. Make a list of everything that you could do to achieve the goal. Organize the list in order of what needs to be done at any certain time and prioritize the list.

The turning point is to then take action on the list and do something immediatly to take action on your plan every day to get you closer to the goal.

Keep in mind, you will experience a lot of resistance when developing your new habits. Don't get discouraged.

In the CD, Brian shares a quote from Ed Foreman that says "Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with and good habits are hard to form and easy to live with." Successful people have good habits and act in accordance with their habits. Do stuff over and over again until you developed these habits.

Good luck, and set goals that make you stretch and grow every day.