Effective Goal setting 101: How to get focused and refined
“Realistic Goals Don’t Empower You”
Answer these questions to enable yourself to know what you’re looking to achieve.
Question 1: What do you want from this world all together?
Question 2: What is stopping you from achieving what you want? What door do you have to kick down? What hurdle do you have to jump—if so, how high!
Question 3: If you could choose any job in the world, what would it be?
Question 4: What would it take you to feel rich? Get specific! Does it have to be one million dollars in general—if so, why? Seriously, what is it about that number?
Question 5: If an employer wanted to know what your biggest strength was, what would you tell them? What’s you biggest weakness.
Question 6: Now that you know your biggest weakness, what can you do to improve it, let alone allow your strengths to be showcased?
Question 7: Do you have any role models? Is there anyone in your industry you look up to? What have they done to reach the success they have achieved? Is there any way you can be more like them?
Question 8: What do you have to do to boost sales and efficiency? Where have you been finding faults in your selling ability—in general what can you work on to close more numbers.
Question 9: What can you do right now to consistently improve your performance?
Question 10: If someone were to talk behind your back, what would they say?
Answer all of these questions to allow yourself to get focused! If you don’t have any targets to hit then you are inevitably setting yourself up for failure. Consistency and Persistence are the two variables that are going to separate you from those who aren’t willing to sacrifice. At the end of the day even when you “think” you have done everything in your power to complete a task, could you have gave it more?
If you said NO then answer this: If you were offered more money (an incentive) to dig deeper would you have? Or if you would work for another hour at the same pace or a more accelerated pace in order to get a promotion—would you be able to? Lastly, if you had no energy left mentally, physically, and emotionally, you were broken down—would you find the strength to keep going if it was a life or death situation?
I’m almost 100 percent certain you answered yes to all three of these questions—if you didn’t—you obviously don’t want it bad enough because at the end of the day there is no excuse to why you aren’t performing at an optimal level! The only excuses valid are the ones we all laugh about that other people make. The more focused your goals are the more likely you are to hit them.
Prologue
Stepping Onto the Battlefield Called Life
If you can’t comprehend something within your conscious realm of thought, how can you ever expect it to become a reality in the physical material world?
I have made it part of my life’s journey to discover some of the most efficient techniques in helping everyday people reach a level of mastery within their lives. Something like what Napoleon Hill did except with my own creativity and originality. I am driven by witnessing the breakthroughs of everyday life, watching people cross over into the deep waters of a further understanding of not only themselves, but the nature of our everyday world.
Pain is always going to be prevalent within our world and this is why I have made it my obligation to help people see light where there is darkness. To allow people to be able to rise above the everyday animosity and negotiate peace with those who try to rein terror. Imagine the empowerment if we as people all came together for the greater good, what could be accomplished? Imagine rather than fighting against conflicting values that we searched from a more progressive solution. Imagine spending money on things worth more value, rather than lottery tickets or another gamble.
Rather than believing there is no answer and following the metaphor that “this is just the way things are,” I believe it’s time to switch our protocol. It’s time to start realizing that we are all people no different in that we all want to thrive and have an equal chance to rise within our lives—we all want to have a feeling of appreciation.
What I have discovered in my vast research within the field of personal development is that constant repetition is the continual growth of whatever it is you desire within this lifetime. In order to reach mastery, in order to gain iconic status, you need to repeat and repeat again. After writing my first book Life is Motivation I had a significant amount of time to reflect, to reminisce on the foundation I built for my future. Something I thought I couldn’t do became a reality—it became real. I still remember releasing my book—even when they first arrived at my doorstep, it was almost as if it was all fiction.
I didn’t know what to feel, what to say really. It has been a continual learning process within my life, a continual journey that is leading me down a road to a never ending victory. I watch so many lives around me make small things seem as if they can be felt on a grandiose scale, when the true focus is that things only seem big until you conquer the mountain; until you unleash that desire that burns deep within you.
We as human beings have a substantial power that thrives within us. This power is just waiting to be unleashed—however, as individual’s life breaks us down and tries to kill our imagination through forms of perception which we call reality. This continual process that breaks individuals down, is the same process that enables people to reach greatness—this same process fires people up and allows them to truly let go. When an incentive is high enough to reach a task, we will find a way to complete it. You don’t know how many times I’ve had people tell me they have given it everything when completing a task, to then give it the extra mile when one of their idols was in front of them, or more money is offered, etc.