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Be careful of what you wish for in 2010...I don’t know who figured this gimmick out, but it’s real neat that you get to start a whole new year with a clean, unblemished, untarnished slate. With Christmas around the corner and about a week to go to 2010, it’s time to jettison last year’s disappointments, resentments, frustrations, mistakes, unfulfilled goals and only carry over the good stuff. Whatever’s done is done, committed to history, no point looking back. When the clock strikes midnight on the 31st of December the starter’s pistol goes off. A whole new 52 weeks are right in front of you. The trick is to make sure you are not lugging any unnecessary baggage and you have the clearest possible picture of what the finishing line looks like at the end of 2010. So how do you set goals for the New Year and get yourself the clear picture? The first thing I like to do is to reconsider unfinished business and new items on my ‘ugly’ list. The things that still require completion, the things I like least about my business or life, that perpetually seem to bug me, waste my time and get in the way. I also like to consider my own behaviour. What can I do better, to be better? What do I need to become better at to achieve my goals in 2010? Can’t build a nest without twigs, grass, leaves and superglue. You need to gather the right stuff in order to get the job done. Figure out what stands in your way and quickly, ruthlessly discard ‘it’ decisively. Now to the goals – the clear picture - we all have dreams but what defines a goal is simply that the dream now has a date attached. And the most common reason for business owners and their businesses to not reach their goals is NOT through a lack of desire but that they simply haven’t defined the goals clearly. When setting any type of goals, Be SPECIFIC – if YOU don’t fill in the blanks, it will happen anyway; it just may not be the way you’d want! I think what makes the whole concept of setting goals in the fashion we advocate so compelling to people, is that it requires you to FREE UP your imagination, to have some serious FUN with it. Most of the goal setting techniques I’ve heard about take a much more rigid view of how it’s done, for instance “make your goals achievable”. The inference is that it would be foolish to “wish” for something unless you can already see the steps you will take on the journey to achieving it. The trouble with that approach is that most of us don’t really KNOW what we are capable of achieving until we open our minds to the possibilities. BEGIN with the END in mind, to paraphrase the title of Law No # 5 in my book “Your Right To Be Rich!”. The Wonderful thing is you don’t NEED to burst a blood vessel ‘MAKING’ it happen; this is about having a ball with your SUBCONSCIOUS mind, which works away for you at an entirely different level! And even more importantly, the mind will accept what you persist in feeding it and go into overdrive in order to make the pictures in it become REALITY! Your mind CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE between what is REAL and what is IMAGINED! It accepts what you tell it as the truth and sees to it that this is made manifest! How does this happen? It has to do with THOUGHTS being very real forces of ENERGY, which attract ‘like’ forces of energy to themselves. If your thoughts and your focus is weak and scattered, your outcome will be all over the place too! Can you relate to this? If you look back over your life at times when you maybe didn’t have a clear direction and purpose… How did it look? A bit lost… a lack of clarity… and purpose maybe. One that most people will relate to is New Years Eve. We seem to do the same thing over and over. We make resolutions for the coming year and get inspired and we feel the determination of this new declaration that this is the year, this year we are going to… and yet nothing seems to happen. Very few of us follow through and see the success we desire. Why is this? As we already said if your thoughts and your focus is weak and scattered, your outcome will be all over the place too! So the CLEARER the picture you have, the more SPECIFIC you are with both the vision you have and in the way you articulate your goals, the more exact will be your outcome. It needs to be SPECIFIC. Form a CLEAR picture in your mind and hold on to it and take the steps necessary to make it happen. And then surround yourself with like minded people, people who don’t necessarily want what you want, not even people who have the same goals, but like minded people. They get that it is all about mindset and they isolate themselves from those that would bring you down. If you can’t isolate yourself from these negative naysayers – and it’s Christmas season so many of us are forced to spend time with people we would not normally, you know the expert brother in law at the family BBQ who has a great “job” but seems to know how you should be running your business! If you can’t isolate yourself, do your best to minimize the input they have into your thought process. And one the best ways I know how to do that if trapped in these situations is to let them talk about themselves. So this festive season, spend the time needed getting your focus, your specific picture cemented in and then strive – take action – massive action. All the best, Committed to Elevating the Financial Wealth and Wellbeing of Society P.S. If you’ve missed any of my previous Rants, I have them all available for you to see on my website.
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