Accomplishing Your Dreams And Goals
If you don’t have written goals, I’d like to help you get them down and clarified. What do you want to achieve?
Think of a time in your life when you achieved something you really wanted. Did you doubt it would happen and believe that you could not achieve it? Or did you have a solid sense of knowing that it would happen and doubt never entered into your mind?
You must know that you are going to be successful, before you even begin. Belive that you can’t fail. If you know it will happen in advance, you will have the drive and take action and see your dreams and goals becoming reality in your life.
Visualizing your goals as reality is one way to develop this strong belief.
Most of us visualize already. We just don’t realize it. Have you ever rehearsed something in your head before even doing it?
Visualization is a very effective technique. It works for many areas of life, but it takes practice for it to be effective.
Visualization works like this.
The first step is to decide on a goal you want to accomplish.
Second, imagine it in your head.
Third, using all of your senses, visualize what your life would be like if you already accomplished it. Make a movie in your head and insert yourself right in there, on the beach, in your new home or whatever. What are you smelling, seeing, hearing, touching etc…
Do this for 11 or 12 mins. Keep your thoughts happy and cheerful. Enjoy the experience. How do you feel? You may find your mind starting to think about other things. That is okay, just bring it back to focus.
Remind yourself of this vision several times during the day. The more we think about things, the better chance we have of creating those realities in our lives. This exercise programs the brain to drive us towards our goals.
All goals are different, but some of them should be kept private. Friends and family, while they mean well, tend to say things that cause us to lose our belief and confidence in achieving our goals. This gets in the way lots of time.
It is hard enough to overcome our own doubts and worries without having to also overcome those of the people around you. Keep any goals where you may be influenced by others to yourself and let the people around you see the successful end result.
Insisting On Success
Acknowledging your success simply means telling our subconscious mind that we WILL get there. We must repeat it often and our brain will start to believe it.
An affirmation is a sentence or two that is written in a positive language with definite targets and timescales. A bad affirmation would be “I want to lose some weight.” Your subconscious looks at this and since there is no timescale it will not leap into action. There is also no definite target so your subconscious does not know what to aim for. How is “some weight” defined? It is 10 pounds, but also 1 pound and also just 1 ounce.
If you are very clear and exact, you send instructions to your mind that are precise and it knows what to do and when to do it by.
Next we must write down the plan or action steps we will take to accomplish the goal we wrote down and instructed our mind on. Then we should divide those action steps into daily actions.
Small Steps
It is okay to have big dreams like wanting to be a millionaire by the age of 40.
This goal is to large for our brain to get around. It may even decrease our belief and motivation level a bit. You doubt it, so you must reduce it into tiny action steps that you can really see yourself taking.
Mega goals are great, but it is important to divide them down unto smaller, realistic goals and assign them action steps to accomplish.
Our mind can grasp the small steps and believe in our ability to get there. These small wins go a long way towards building our belief level.
Review your big and small goals each and every day. That way your subconscious mind remains focused on them and remember: We Get What We Think About The Most. It is also important to review these goals often and make little adjustments, so you are not repeating mistakes over and over.
Achieving our goals is something we all want to do, but it involves work. Rarely will they be given to us on a silver platter by a servant on bended knee. Achievement requires Knowing, drive and commitment, combined with careful and meticulous planning and a firm belief in ourselves. With unwavering belief and commitment there is nothing that you cannot achieve. Everything and anything is within your grasp – if you are willing to make the commitment to achieving it.
Want to find out more about achieving your goals, methods to get there? Then visit Mike Koller’s blog. Also grab his best-selling book 3 Secrets Of Millionaires for more awesome strategies.
