Hopefully yesterday’s blog was of help and you all sat down last night to write out your goals and start building your road map. You spent some serious time comtemplating what your goals are, what you need to do to get there. I hope that your goals reflect that you are balanced in your life and included personal, professional, spiritual, financial, and recreational goals. Remember that we all need to work hard, play hard and have a higher sense of purpose and have those we love to share it all with. By keeping your life, and life goals in balance, the pleasure of the journey is much more enjoyable.
So now what? You have these five or six goals all nicely written out….now what? Do you hide them away in your desk drawer and on December 31 bring them out and review how you did during 2010? Not a chance – now the fun begins.
Firstly, keep all your goals together in a ring binder. DO NOT leave them lying around. The have tremendous power, and later if you change your mind you dont want an old goal lying around sabotaging you.
Now get into action. Circumstances, people and opportunities will present themelves to you and they will be there to help you move towards your goal attainment. Gather the resources you need – what is it you need to learn to make you goal come true? who do you need to associate yourself with? Remember “like” attracts “like”. Associate with successful people and you will be successful because you will mimic their actions – want to lose weight – associate with people who have lost weight. Want to have a successful MLM business – associate with the movers and shakers in the industry – read, study, move, do….do what they are doing.
Remember to revisit your goals on a regular basis – goals are dynamic – they need to be reviewed, fine tuned, and sometimes discarded or reworked. Don’t be afraid to say that your goal is no longer important. But dont discard a goal just because you havent attained it or you havent done anything to move towards making it reality.
If you have achieved your goal – CELEBRATE!!! Cheer, Give yourself a gold star. Scribble ‘well done’ on your goal. And keep your goal to remind you that this works!
If you haven’t achieved your goal, study it. Do you still want it? If so, write a new date on it. Make sure to review the goal – I mean really study it! It has been my experience that alot of people have actually reached their goal – they just dont realize it. For example, a friend wrote a goal around a relationship. I pointed out that her male business partner fit the goal to a tee – however, what she had failed to add to her goal was the initimacy that she was craving.
Tear up and destroy the goals you no longer want. Get rid of the things that are no longer important – you dont want them hanging around throwing potholes into your road map.
Remember no goal ever is realized without effort on your part. No one causes you to fail at this game other than yourself. It is a matter of taking responsiblity for what you want out of life and moving towards it, aligning yourself with like minded people, gathering resources, continuing to put one foot in front of the other.
You have your road map – now go reach for the stars and Create Your Freedom.
Monica McCullough
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Hi Monica,
I really enjoyed reading your post today Monica. It is so important to celebrate the success that you accomplish in your day. It could be anything as small as actually getting up out of bed when you are sad. I remember Joe Vitale talking about how when he was in a rut, had no home and wanted to desperately try to fix himself he was trying to determine what he was thankful for. Turned out, it was the eraser on his pencil. He thought is his pencil could fix a wrong then he had the power to fix what was wrong in him…That is just what he did and look what happened from that day forward. So now when I don’t quite hit on my goals, I start again its ok. Joe is one of the top personal development coaches of all time. I have learned so much from him and I am blessed to have shared that story about small celebrations.
Terri
Great stuff Monica,
I agree 100 percent.. either we are motivated
by the carrot or the stick.. the sad thing is
most people by the stick and not carrot.. so
we sit around in complacency.. just long
enough to reach our “uncomfortable” level
and then we get to work.
Christopher Dittemore
I totally agree with you Monica. Every goal once met should be celebrated.