· Keep it in a place you can see it.
· Read it 3x a day.
· Rewrite your goals a couple of times a day.
· Visualize as complete.
· Affirm it out loud – present tense.
· Track it – if you can measure it you can reach it.
· Victory log.
· Plan the night before.
· Vision boards.
· The question.
“If you’ve been around motivational, goal-setting circles long enough, you inevitably will have run across the law of attraction, and no John, I am not going to ask you walk across burning coals. The Law of Attraction simply says this; ‘You Become What You Think About.’
“Now many gurus will profess that there is a magic to this whole science of goal-setting and effectuation and although I do believe there is a little magic to this whole thing, I a
m neither a guru nor a nut. I believe that the techniques I am about to explain contain approximately 25% magic. The rest is focus, hard-work and persistence.”
Keep It in a Place Where You Can See It
“Once you have your goals written out, I recommend you keep a copy on your night-stand next to your bed, at work on your desk, in your car and carry a travel version with you so you have them on business trips and vacations. As a matter of fact, I recommend you build a sheet that contains your written out, specific goals on the front along with visualization material which I will cover later, and your mission statement on the back. This will allow you to review your personal strategic pyramid on a regular basis. Remember, Mission, Vision, Goals are at the top.”
Read it 3x A Day
“Now that you have the goals in places where you can see them constantly, it should be easy to read them at least three times a day, in the morning, at lunch and before going to bed. If you keep them in your car, taped to the dashboard, you can review them while waiting in traffic.”
Rewrite Your Goals a Couple of Times a Day
“Motivational guru Brian Tracy says this is the best technique to utilize in keeping your goals at the forefront of your daily activities. He claims that his success, countless books, seminars and income came about as the result of this simple technique. Rewrite your goals at least a couple of times day. If time constraints become an issue, then at least rewrite your top five. This will accelerate your accomplishments.”
Visualize Your Goals as Complete
Jack Nicklaus the golfer used this technique. He would visualize where the golf ball would land, high up on the green or in the middle of the fairway before he took the shot. He would visual his swing, picture it in his mind, and then he would take the swing.
For you, you want to visualize yourself in the moment after the goal has been attained. For example, if you want a red convertible car, visualize yourself driving down a road in the exact make and model of the car you want. If you want a million dollars, visualize a check register with a balance of a million dollars. Put yourself in the moment. How does it feel to have accomplished your goal? The idea is that you are programming your brain to bring these images into reality. The more programming you do, the faster you will go to work at finding ways to reach the goal.
Affirm It Out Loud in the Present Tense
“Okay, this is the tool that will get you classified as absolutely nuts,” I said. “You want to affirm your goal out loud, in the present tense at least a couple of times a day. ‘I am thoroughly enjoying driving my red corvette with the top down by January 1st, 2017 at 7pm’ would be our car example. ‘It feels great to have absolute abundance and look down at a check register with a balance of $1 million’ would be our example for the one million dollar net worth goal.”
“Notice how I used the present tense and used verbs of passionate excitement such as ‘I am thoroughly enjoying’ and ‘it feels great.’”
“Yes, I did notice that,” John said.
“This is of absolute importance for this technique. Put yourself in the present tense, express enthusiasm. Your brain will work on closing the gap between mental imagery and reality.”
Track It – If You Can Measure it You Can Reach It
“At the end of the day, take some time and track how you did for the day in each of your main goal categories; Family, finance, job, health, hobbies, service, etcetera. Or if it is more pertinent, track how the progress you made towards each of your 5 main goal areas.
“I simply do a tick mark count on a scale of one to five on how I did for each category. If I ate like a pig and didn’t go for a planned jog then health might only get one tick mark out of five. If I read an entire book on finance and investing in one day then finance might get five tick marks. If I take the wife and kids out to dinner and movies and we all have a good time, perhaps family gets four or five.
“Keep in mind though that you may have more concrete, applicable ways of tracking some of your goals. For example, as it relates to your net worth goal, you can track your total net worth. The dollar amount of your assets minus your debt equals your equity or net worth. Hopefully, over time you should see this increasing towards your goal of one million dollars. Your weight is another easily trackable metric. Jump on the scale and see what you weigh.”
Victory Log
As you accomplish your goals, check them off and keep them in a notebook or three ring binder where you can review your accomplishments. This will assist you in verifying your progress and solidify your confidence. You should be impressed by your own progress and it should springboard you into bigger pursuits. It will allow you to regularly review what you have accomplished and should be used as confidence booster when you are about to make a big decision or move in a new direction.
Plan the Night Before
If you can start each day off with a list, ready to go, ready to start on your action plan for accomplishing your mission, vision and goals, you will be ahead of the curve. Instead of scrambling in the morning in preparation, you will be ready to go and this momentum will carry you forward through the rest of the day. Remember the strategic pyramid. The mission, vision and goals are at the top but the daily action steps will produce the result. Thus, it is highly important to develop a daily action list and to develop it the night before.
Vision Boards
Vision boards are the literal visual element to your goal-setting. Again, I recommend you construct a notebook sized piece of paper with your top five to ten goals listed on the right, your vision board materials on the left, and your mission statement on the back. This one sheaf of notebook paper, containing the aforementioned elements will be a powerhouse in your life and you can easily put it on your nighstand, your desk and in your car for easy, timely review. The vision board materials can simply be drawings or photographs. For the red car that you want, go down to your local, favorite dealership and snap a picture of yourself sitting behind the wheel. Attach this picture to your vision board. For the million dollar net worth, take a blank check register and write in the one million dollar balance. Make a photo copy of this, shrink it and paste it onto your vision board or sheet. Yes, it will be hard cramming everything onto one sheet, but god invented the reduce feature on copiers for a reason. When you read your goals, review these visual aspects as well, three times a day.
The Question
What has to happen in three years for you to be happy with your progress? Ask yourself this question daily. What do you need to accomplish in your family, finances, career, health, service and passions in order for you to be happy with your progress? Ask this daily and you will be drawn closer and closer to the end result. Also note how you are creating a symphony of destination. The vision, goals, affirmations, visualization techniques, vision boards and the question all lead to the result – bringing your future vision closer and closer to reality.
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