S3Q3 – Spring Cleaning-Take Time To Pull The Weeds

TAKE TIME TO PULL THE WEEDS FROM YOUR LIFE THAT KEEP YOUR GARDEN FROM BLOOMING TO ITS GREATEST BEAUTY. ~TONY WOODALL

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Spring Cleaning – I was reminded by a text yesterday about the need for Spring Cleaning.

Yes, it’s springtime and spring is a time in of renewal, rebirth, revitalizing.

Spring Cleaning is almost a ritual at this time of year – as we often need to look at the things around us and think, “Do they still work in our gardens, our homes, and in our lives.

The Spring is a great time to review our goals and if you made them, New Year’s Resolutions. If you made New Year’s Resolutions, most people have forgotten them already, or have given up on them by now.

Have you?

If you set goals for the first quarter, where are you?

Are you almost complete? Are you still tracking them with your action plan?

Maybe it’s spring cleaning time in your life.

Look at your life. What parts of your life, your garden of ideas and dreams, need some weeding?

What closet in your mental house – your passions, need cleaning out?

If you have plants, products, “Stuff” that doesn’t make you better, move you forward, make you happy – maybe it’s time to remove that from your place?

As the person texting reminded me yesterday. Celebrate the spring. It’s nature’s way of starting over and seeing the brightness and beauty it brings.

I’m grateful for my life and my ability to grow. Sometimes growth requires change. Cleaning out our closets and our minds helps to provide room for that growth.

Take time this month to review what makes you happy, what makes you grow and what doesn’t. Let go of that which holds you back. Grow!

Have a Great Spring, my friends. Go out and make today a great day.

Do have some cleaning to do? Do you need someone to help you review what you want to do with your life, where you want to be? Maybe you need someone to hold you accountable. I know I could have used that type of person as I started working on my Spring Cleaning.

I offer coaching services for people that want to gain an advantage over the clutter of life and help you set your goals and keep you accountable as you strive to achieve those goals.

Check out my Coaching Page at Goal Getting Podcast.com / Services to find a plan that works for you and let’s start cleaning out the limiting beliefs and things that are holding you back from the beauty your garden can bring.

Leave a comment in the Comments section of our Podcast page at GoalGettingPodcast.com / Spring Cleaning. Let us know what is holding you back and how we can help you start to bloom.

 

S2-E52 – 3 Ways to Turn New Year’s Resolutions into New Year’s Realizations

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

~~ Abraham Lincoln

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Turn New Year’s Resolutions into New Year’s Realizations

It’s the end of the year and like millions of people in the United States and other countries and possibly even on other planets you are probably thinking about making your usual New Year’s Resolutions.

Well, don’t make your usual New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t work. I talked about this last year and I am going to mention it again this year. Why, because you keep making New Year’s Resolutions when they don’t work.

But they could.

I’m going to tell you 3 ways to turn your New Year’s Resolutions into New Year’s Realizations.

  1. Be Specific

    Don’t just make generic, broad, vague resolutions.

    I will lose weight this year.
    I will get a new job this year.
    I will improve my grades this year.
    I will be make more money this year.

    Your resolutions should be more specific.  You should tell yourself and the universe exactly what you want to accomplish this year. Make it specific:
    I will lose 25 pounds by September 1st of this year by eating healthier and being more active.

    I will take a more active role at work so that I can provide more value and I will apply for a more senior position.

    I will work on my top prospect list each day and double my presentations by August 1st so I can make more sales and improve my income this year.

    They key is to be as specific as possible so your mind know what it has to do to produce the results you want to achieve.

  2. Write your resolutions down.

    Most people when they set their New Year’s Resolutions simply say they will do them. In their mind they think about what they want to do.  The use of visualization is a powerful tool. However, if all you do is say that you want to do something, it doesn’t really register in the mind.

    You want to put it down on paper. Put the paper where you can see it everyday and then use the mental act of visualization as you read it to picture yourself achieving that resolution. Seeing the words will register in your subconscious mind more and as you visualize yourself achieving it your mind will start believing it.

  3. Draft an Action Plan.

    After you’ve written down the specific resolution you intend to achieve, you must draft a step by step plan to achieve it. This is the step that most people forget to do. They may write down a specific resolution but they fail to figure out what it will take to achieve it. It’s like we expect Santa Claus to bring it down the chimney at the end of the year and Poof, we achieved our New Year’s Resolutions. But as we know Santa won’t come and bring you your resolution. It’s not magic. It takes action. Create an action plan.

I guarantee, if you do these 3 steps for each New Year’s Resolution, you will turn more of them into New Year’s Realizations.

I’m looking forward to a fantastic new year. I have had a great year this year. Thanks to you.

Thank you for sticking with us here at Goal Getting Podcast. This is one of my passions and my desire is to inspire. I set my goal for the next part of my life to inspire one person every day. #Inspire1 is my hashtag for this year. Can you do your best to inspire one person every day? Let me know how it goes. Tweet me at @GoalsPodcast with the Hashtag #Inspire1 when you have done something that inspired someone.

Leave a comment telling us what you want to inspire others to do. Let us know how your doing.

Go out and make New Year’s Realizations not Resolutions next year.

 

S2-E51 – Are You A Procrastinator? Stop the Fears That Cause It

“If you want to make an easy job seem might hard, just keep putting it off.”
~ Olin Miller

 

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Are you a procrastinator? I saw this quote today on an article on Huffington Post by Romi Grossberg. I’ve put a link to her article in the show notes.

As a contributor on Huffington Post, I like to follow and read great writers on there. If you have been listening to the show lately you know that I have been focusing on procrastination the last few episodes.

Why, you ask? Well, a couple of reasons.

  1. I have a coaching client that has been dealing with it in his life and I want him to know that it is something that many people encounter and it can be overcome.
  2. I have been dealing with it over the last few months. Yes, me. If you’ve listened to the show you know that I had stopped posting episodes for a while. I went from posting the Quote of the Day 6 days a week to 3 shows, then to one, then to zero for a few months.

Procrastination is most frequently, in my experience and studies, the result of dealing with Fears. I’ve talked about the different fears that people face. One of my favorite books by Napoleon Hill is Outwitting the Devil. This book is about the six fears the Devil uses to keep people from achieving their dreams.

6 Fears Cause Procrastination

  • Fear of Criticism
  • Fear of Ill Health
  • Fear of Loss of Love
  • Fear of Old Age
  • Fear of Death
  • Fear of Poverty

Have you been suffering from any of these?

In his book, Hill talks about the Devil saying his favorite of these is the Fear of Poverty. This is especially useful in his fight against those with entrepreneurial spirit. The person that wants to better their life, to try something new, to get out of their comfort zone is often afflicted with this fear, whether they realize it our not.

This is the one that has hit me on a couple specific occasions. It struck hard in 2008-2010 when I was in the lending industry as a Loan Officer and the market crashed. I was married at the time and had a daughter in college. The thought of not being able to provide for them weighed heavily on me. We lost pretty much everything at that time.

I have been going through the same fear lately. I have specific legal financial commitments now and it has impacted my thought processes. The fear of not being able to meet those commitments has affected me mentally.

The key to overcoming this fear, and any fear, is to recognize it for what it is, a fear. When you put a name to that fear and know that it isn’t you, but the fear, you can then overcome it.

When you recognize this as fear, the key is to take action. If you’ve created an action plan to achieve your goals, start taking action, now. By taking action, your fear will dissipate. The more action you take each day, the easier it will be to achieve your goals.

The farther behind you get in your goal, the harder it seems to become. The more you put off, it seems so much more difficult to get to where you want to be.

Romi’s article on Huffington Post talks about the 5 Minute Rule. I like this rule. Ask yourself if you have 5 minutes. Trust me, you do. Tell yourself and then do something on your action plan for 5 minutes.

If you are writing a book, sit down and write for 5 minutes.

If you are getting in better shape, do sit ups for 5 minutes.

If your goal is to spend more time on self improvement, turn off that TV for 5 minutes and read a chapter out of that book for 5 minutes.

Take Action! Do what you need to do to move forward in your goal.  Don’t be a procrastinator. Start small and get back into the rhythm of the plan. That’s what I have been doing. I started writing, recording and publishing episodes again.

You can take action and achieve your goals. Don’t put it off. Start with 5 minutes. It will build up.

Go Out Today and Take the Action to Move Forward – 5 minutes at a time if you have to. Just Start Now!

Romi Grossberg – Are You A Procrastinator article on Huffington Post.

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Don’t Procrastinate. Email me today.

S2-E50 – Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence – Norman Vincent Peale

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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Has fear taken your confidence from you? Are you afraid to try to achieve your goals? Action is the great restorer and builder of confidence.

This is the first quote I think I’ve shared by Norman Vincent Peale. He is one of my favorite authors and I originally read “The Power of Positive Thinking” when I was in my teens and firmly embraced the belief in Positive Thinking. I remember talking to the pastor of my church after a service one Sunday morning. I told him how I had read Dr. Peale’s book and was now a firm believer in the power of positive thinking.  He looked at me with his sad-eyed look and said,

“Tony, that’s bad. You need to face reality and not positive.”… WHOA! What.  I don’t remember anything else after that point. That was my last service at that church. I would not be involved in a church with a pastor that had a negative attitude. I didn’t believe that God was a negative force. I believe God wants you to be always believe in being positive.

But that’s not the point of this episode.

I am excited about this quote because it’s about Action. I am also a firm believer in action. Action, as Dr. Peale says is a builder of confidence and a great restorer. I have seen this in Action in my life.  A couple years ago I was having a very bad moment in my life. I had lost a lot of my self confidence. I decided I needed to do something to improve my confidence. I decided to attend a Toastmasters meeting. I used to do training and a lot of presentations. I was used to talking in front of people. You wouldn’t be able to tell it from my first Toastmasters meeting.

Taking that action, doing something, started to build my confidence back up. I went on to take some marketing courses at UC Berkeley Extension. I made good grades, had fun, learned a lot and found my calling. I took Michael Brito’s Social Media Marketing Strategy course and developed a passion for social media.

Taking the action to start at Toastmasters rebuilt my confidence. It prompted me to take other actions. Once I found my calling, I took action to start this podcast, write my book, 9 Steps To Successful Goal Achievement and start working on my my next goal to become a professional speaker specializing in inspiration and goal achievement.

Action is a great restorer. Taking action allowed me to build my confidence back to where it was before and beyond.

Are you having a moment in your life where things are not going as well as you want it to? Are you not achieving your goals? Do you need to boost your confidence?

I know how to help and I want to help you. I want to show you how you can be the best person you want to be. It takes action. You have to be willing to take the first action and that is to get started. Getting started helped me grow and now I want to help you.

This is why I started my coaching services. If you want someone to help you take the action you need to move forward in your life, let me know. Check out my services page at Goal Getting Podcast dot com / Services and if you see a plan that works for you get in touch with me.

Whatever you do, Take Action and Start Growing!

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Go Out Today and ACT!

I’d like to thank Jessica Krampe with Success Magazine for sharing this quote in her article

7 Motivational Quotes to Help You Face Your Fears (Because Worry Never Fixes Anything)

 

S2-E49 – Good Things Come To Those That Hustle, Not To Those That Wait.

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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Hustle. Hustle if you want the best. You’ve probably heard the old proverb, “The early bird gets the worm.” I think this is in the same vain and more specific. The real thought here is that if you aren’t early you won’t get a worm, but more than likely you’ll have to wait around until it rains and grab the old drowned worm off the sidewalk because all of the other fresh, squiggly worms will have already been taken by those birds that get up and go out to look for the worms while they are crawling out of the ground, fresh and lively. I mean, that’s how I would like my worms if I ate worms, not the soggy old drowned worm or the dried up worm jerky on the sidewalk.

OK, gross worm talk, but Honest Abe was telling the truth here when he said that you can get good things even if you wait, but the better things will come to those who hustle and get out there early.

I don’t know if Abraham Lincoln actually said this quote. Did they use the word hustle in the 1800’s?  Was there a “Charlie Hustle” in the Union Army?  I am sure we would have heard of some General that was nicknamed General Charles, Charlie Hustle, Smith or something. There was a General Stonewall Jackson who was named because he sad upon his horse like a Stone Wall or something to that effect.

Even if Abe Lincoln didn’t say this in those exact words, I can believe that he had the thought as part of his mental state.

So if you want great things to come to you, get busy doing what you need to do NOW! Don’t wait until tomorrow. As they say, Tomorrow never comes. Don’t get what is left. Make what you want to happen Today.

This ties into my previous episode about Procrastinating. Goal Getting Podcast Episode S2e48. check it out.

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Sometimes we need additional help or accountability partners. Check out my Services page to find out about my Coaching Programs. I am here to help you. Having someone to bounce your ideas, goals and struggles with will help you go further in your success. Check out the programs and let me know which program is best for you. I am offering a FREE 20 minute Clarity Call to help you understand where you are today, what you want to achieve and some actionable steps to begin your journey.

To sign up for a FREE 20 Minute Clarity Call, email me at

Tony at (@)  Goal Getting Podcast.com and include “Clarity Call” in the Subject line.

Don’t Procrastinate. Email me today.

Hey Hustle Out There And Make Today A Great Day!

S2-E48 – Do You Procrastinate, Delaying Your Success?

“Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.”   ― Israelmore Ayivor

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Good day my friend. Today I want to present a quote for one of my good friends and coaching client that is fighting the battle with Procrastination. Do You Procrastinate and Delay Your Success?

We all suffer through procrastination at some time in our life. If you don’t today just wait until tomorrow. OK, that was a bad attempt at a joke. But, for many if not most people it is a constant struggle. It isn’t caused by you. Well, not consciously anyway. It is caused by your subconscious mind.

The quote is true. We get bits and pieces of our success. When we procrastinate, we lose that day’s helping of success. If you procrastinate, that time cannon be made up. You lose it. Do you want to lose any part of your success?

Procrastination

Procrastination is a tool of the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind uses Fears to control our lives. The Fear of Failure, the Fear of Success are two fears that are often manifested by the subconscious as procrastination. Our subconscious mind, if not programmed to understand success as a known it will start using fears to sabotage your own success. The Fears of Success and Failure are both the same but different. Don’t you hate it when people use that saying – “the same but different”. You can’t be the same and different or can you. They are the same in that your subconscious mind doesn’t recognize success. It doesn’t understand it. It isn’t positive or negative, it just is. Depending on how we are raised, how our environment was around us as we were growing up, the subconscious mind will view it differently.

Fear of Failure

If I was brought up within a successful thought process, than I could have a fear of failure. Our parent may have shown disfavor when we didn’t achieve what was expected of us, what they wanted or thought we should do. Because we didn’t meet up to their expectations we were derided or not shown positive responses. Our subconscious mind can cause us to think that if we fail at what we are trying to achieve, then we will once again be derided or shown disfavor. To prevent this from happening, our mind set about not letting us complete the tasks that would lead to this activity. Procrastination is the tool, the way for the mind to prevent this situation from occurring.  You can’t fail if you don’t start. 

But, You Do! Not starting is a failure to accomplish what you wanted to start. Then the mind starts saying the next time, “What, You have never completed anything before. What makes you think you can do it now? The Impostor Syndrome then start to move into your mental house.

Fear of Success

Our subconscious mind, when it doesn’t recognize success as a known, it will often present in the form of Fear Of Success. You start trying to do something that could make you successful and it your own mind starts freaking out.

“Wait, you’ve never been successful at this kind of thing.  You can’t make $5000 per week. You’ve never made more than $2500 a month. How are you going to make that kind of money?”

The mind, when it doesn’t recognize our actions and thoughts as knowns, it will start to sabotage your success. It will do things to keep you from doing what it does not know. It will make you procrastinate.

It doesn’t matter if that change is positive, it will not recognize you doing it and then do whatever it can to shut you down; to protect you!  It’s not being mean. It wants to make sure that you are doing what it recognizes as it’s own truth.

One of it’s biggest tools is PROCRASTINATION. ”

Hey, you have so much else to do right now. Housework needs to get done right now. You need to go work in the yard. Hey, you haven’t seen all of the episodes of Justified. You know you can watch them on Amazon Prime, right. Let’s sit down and watch just one episode.”

Unfortunately, that one episode turns into 3-5 and the next thing you know, 3-5 hours has passed and the time you were going to work on writing your book, recording that podcast episode, whatever you goal is. The tasks you need to do to complete them are replaced with activities that do not accomplish your goals.

Wait I spent 3-5 hours researching stuff for what I am trying to do. Really? I heard and believe that 85% of research is Procrastination. If we have to do research on a topic to complete our goals, then make that a timed task that you need to complete. Research is important, but don’t use it as an excuse. If you time-box for research, you will recognize that your subconscious mind is trying to sabotage you when that time starts getting wasted on other non-productive tasks. Non-productive in the accomplishment of your goals.

Your Subconscious Mind will make you procrastinate to destroy your dreams.

But you can change that. You can change the unknowns into knowns while at the same time working to achieve your dreams. You can reprogram your subconscious mind to think of this success as a known. You can change your own mind into recognizing that making $5000 per week or even per day is a known. When it recognizes what it is like putting tens of thousands of dollars in your bank account every week or day, it will then stop sabotaging you. It will then start removing those negative voices and limiting beliefs with positive, success-seeking beliefs.

That’s what I did after I learned The Mental Bank Method and why I incorporate this technique into the Goal Achievement Success System. This is how I was able to go from working at low paying jobs making minimum wage, to $17K, then $37K, then $75K then to $150K plus – without a college degree.

Mental Bank

You can learn it and use it to help you Get The Goals You Set. You can listen to these episodes where I explain the Mental Bank Method:

Episode 34 – Is This What You Struggle With?

Episode 35 – Is your Mind Killing Your Dreams – 6 Steps to Stop It Now

Episode 36 – Success Is Not An Accident – Take It To The Bank

Sometimes we need additional help or accountability partners. Check out my Services page to find out about my Coaching Programs. I am here to help you. Having someone to bounce your ideas, goals and struggles with will help you go further in your success. Check out the programs and let me know which program is best for you. I am offering a FREE 20 minute Clarity Call to help you understand where you are today, what you want to achieve and some actionable steps to begin your journey.

To sign up for a FREE 20 Minute Clarity Call, email me at

Tony at (@)  Goal Getting Podcast.com and include “Clarity Call” in the Subject line.

Don’t Procrastinate. Email me today.

Don’t Procrastinate Today! Do What You Need To Do!

 

S2-E45 – Are You A Visionary or Just a Dreamer?

High Eagle - Commitment precedes Vision

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person’s vision may not be that of another.

To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone’s heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.  ~~ High Eagle

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Dreams vs. Visions

What’s the difference?  When is a dream just a dream?  High Eagle says that we often don’t know the difference between a dream and a vision. Many of us feel they are the same. But are they?  What makes one different from the other? Are all dreams visions? Why not? What do you think?

What High Eagle goes on to say is that Visions are more than mere dreams. Visions come from the Great Spirit. They are messages that are different for each person because they are for different purposes in life.  These are your life’s purpose. This is what I believe High Eagle is talking about. What is your purpose in life?

I think the second part of this quote is the the key to understanding what High Eagle says.

To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it.

As I was growing up, I had a dream. I wanted to be a teacher, to share my knowledge and skills with others. At the time I wasn’t ready to receive that vision of where I needed to be. I wasn’t ready to accept it.

I thought of other things. I wanted to make more money than what I thought teachers made at the time. I wanted to experience other thrills in life. I wanted to be somebody important. I wanted to be successful.

What happens to a lot of us as we get older, we start wondering if we made an impact with our life. Were we able to be significant to others, our fellow man? Did we live a life of significance and purpose. Sometimes it isn’t until we reach this point in our lives that we start thinking about that higher calling, that purpose.

What is our calling?

What is our purpose?

One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain. It hangs on my wall.

The two biggest days in our life are the day we are born and the day we find out why.

The two biggest days in our life are the day we are born and the day we find out why. ~~ Mark Twain Click To Tweet

The day we find out our why, our purpose, is one of the most important days because when that happens we learn how to be significant. We are now ready to receive the vision, we are ready to accept it. Learning our purpose, our calling will turn those urges we have had into reality and we will then be able to receive and fulfill the real visions, the goals we need to achieve that purpose.

Receive your vision

We have to be ready to receive it and accept it and then we will have the commitment needed to be able to achieve those visions and make them reality.  This get’s back to one of the key motivators for Successful Goal Achievement – Knowing Your Why!

When you know your why, you will be able to keep the commitment to your visions, your goals. When you work toward your purpose, what you are meant to be, to do, then you will be able to turn your visions into reality. Taking the actions necessary will turn those dreams into visions.

Are you working on visions or dreams?

I think this is why many of us have not been able to achieve our dreams. A dream has no action, no commitment.  A vision when realized as a part of your purpose, your calling will be driven by your commitment. Commitment brings action.  Action leads to fulfillment and achievement.

Are you ready to receive your vision? Are you ready to accept it?

How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out.

Do you know what your purpose is?  Do you need help to understand what you want to be and how to achieve it?

Some times we all need a little help. The best way to get the help needed to understand is to look outside of ourselves and the best way to do that is with someone else’s eyes.

Can I help you?

We often need a coach to help us bring new eyes, new thoughts, new perspective on what we are doing, or not. I use a coach to help me with the visions I have and what I need to do to make those visions a reality. I decided I needed to follow my purpose, my calling to teach, inspire and motivate people to achieve their goals.

I have started offering coaching services to those that want to understand how to create their goals effectively and to have an accountability partner to keep them on track. Check out my Services Page on our Website at GoalGettingPodcast.com/Services or search Services when you are on the GoalGettingPodcast.com website.

I put together 3 packages to help you decide what you want to do with your life.  Check them out and if you want to work together to Get the Goals You Set just email me at [email protected]

 

S2-E44.2 – Are your SMART Goals making you feel dumb?

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein

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If you listened to this post before you will notice I had the wrong audio on the other version of this post. I bet you thought you were losing it. What did Brooke Shields have to do with SMART Goals. I don’t know what I did with the audio, but I believe I have the correct audio here. Please accept my apologies.

Albert Einstein was smart. But you are too. Most of us are smart, but we don’t have the fortitude to stay with our problems until we solve them. The same is true for our goals in most cases. Most of use have heard of SMART Goals and follow this methodology as the script when we create and write our goals. Do you set SMART Goals only to feel dumb when you don’t achieve them?  Don’t feel dumb, it’s not that you aren’t SMART, it’s that SMART Goals don’t go far enough.

What are SMART Goals?  The methodology of SMART Goals was developed for setting business or management goals.

SMART Goals are

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable (or Assignable)
  • Realistic (or Relevant)
  • Time-bound

There are several interpretations for each of the letters, but the two most ambiguous are A and R. If A = Achievable  and R = Realistic, isn’t that saying the same thing? If my goal is achievable, it must be realistic, right? If it isn’t realistic, it most likely wouldn’t be achievable.

If we are thinking in a business or management mindset, a goal should be assignable. In other words, someone must be able to be assigned to complete it. There must, therefore, be certain tasks that someone must complete for the goal to be achieved. I think it would be smarter to make the A = Actionable, thereby making someone Accountable for completing the action. So maybe Accountable should be the A.

Well, Realistic shouldn’t be used for R if Achievable is the A. But if A is Actionable, Assignable or even Accountable, then R should be Realistic. Why? Your goals should be Achievable, wait, I mean Realistic. Well since they both are the same thing they should be either or both; Realistically Achievable.

So, are you feeling dumb already. Don’t! Even if you understand what SMART should stand for, it still isn’t enough and you probably still feel dumb. You set SMART Goals. You followed SMART to the T. Your goals were set correctly by the SMART standards. But, you still aren’t achieving your goals. You can’t seem to get the goals your set.

Why not? If my goals are SMART, then I must be dumb. You are not dumb. You just don’t know.

What you don’t know are there are really 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement. The 9 Steps include elements of SMART Goals but they also contain the essences of SMARTER goals, too.  The 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement will make your goal setting successful.

I wrote my eBook, 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement and you can find it on Amazon here.

What are the 9 Steps that will make you feel smart and successful?

Successful Goal Setting

  1. Write it Down – Clearly Defined (specific) / Written Goals
  2. Be Realistic – Realistically Achievable Goals
  3. Set A Deadline – Time-Bound Goals
  4. Set An Action Plan – Actionable Goals
  5. Measure It / Track it – Measurable Goals
  6. Define Your Why – Relevant, Meaningful Goals
  7. Visualize It – Believable Goals
  8. Make a Commitment – Accountable Goals
  9. Reward Yourself – Motivational Goals

If you want to learn how you can put these 9 steps into effect in your life with the Goal Achievement Success System, check out my Coaching Packages here. I am committed to helping you get the goals you set.

If you set New Years Resolutions or Goals at the beginning of the year, Well, the year is almost half over. Where do you stand today? Have you achieved your goals? Are you feeling DUMB instead of SMART? Don’t. Let me help you.

Contact me today to sign up for coaching. Even the best need coaches. Professional Golfers have coaches. Athletes hire coaches. Executives hire coaches. I have a coach.

Contact me at Tony at Goal Getting Podcast dot com and let’s get your goals this year. Don’t just feel smart, feel successful.

S2-E44 – Are your SMART Goals making you feel dumb?

 It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein was smart. But you are too. Most of us are smart, but we don’t have the fortitude to stay with our problems until we solve them. The same is true for our goals in most cases. Most of use have heard of SMART Goals and follow this methodology as the script when we create and write our goals. Do you set SMART Goals only to feel dumb when you don’t achieve them?  Don’t feel dumb, it’s not that you aren’t SMART, it’s that SMART Goals don’t go far enough.

What are SMART Goals?  The methodology of SMART Goals was developed for setting business or management goals.

SMART Goals are

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable (or Assignable)
  • Realistic (or Relevant)
  • Time-bound

There are several interpretations for each of the letters, but the two most ambiguous are A and R. If A = Achievable  and R = Realistic, isn’t that saying the same thing? If my goal is achievable, it must be realistic, right? If it isn’t realistic, it most likely wouldn’t be achievable.

If we are thinking in a business or management mindset, a goal should be assignable. In other words, someone must be able to be assigned to complete it. There must, therefore, be certain tasks that someone must complete for the goal to be achieved. I think it would be smarter to make the A = Actionable, thereby making someone Accountable for completing the action. So maybe Accountable should be the A.

Well, Realistic shouldn’t be used for R if Achievable is the A. But if A is Actionable, Assignable or even Accountable, then R should be Realistic. Why? Your goals should be Achievable, wait, I mean Realistic. Well since they both are the same thing they should be either or both; Realistically Achievable.

So, are you feeling dumb already. Don’t! Even if you understand what SMART should stand for, it still isn’t enough and you probably still feel dumb. You set SMART Goals. You followed SMART to the T. Your goals were set correctly by the SMART standards. But, you still aren’t achieving your goals. You can’t seem to get the goals your set.

Why not? If my goals are SMART, then I must be dumb. You are not dumb. You just don’t know.

What you don’t know are there are really 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement. The 9 Steps include elements of SMART Goals but they also contain the essences of SMARTER goals, too.  The 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement will make your goal setting successful.

I wrote my eBook, 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement and you can find it on Amazon here.

What are the 9 Steps that will make you feel smart and successful?

Successful Goal Setting

  1. Write it Down – Clearly Defined (specific) / Written Goals
  2. Be Realistic – Realistically Achievable Goals
  3. Set A Deadline – Time-Bound Goals
  4. Set An Action Plan – Actionable Goals
  5. Measure It / Track it – Measurable Goals
  6. Define Your Why – Relevant, Meaningful Goals
  7. Visualize It – Believable Goals
  8. Make a Commitment – Accountable Goals
  9. Reward Yourself – Motivational Goals

If you want to learn how you can put these 9 steps into effect in your life with the Goal Achievement Success System, check out my Coaching Packages here. I am committed to helping you get the goals you set.

If you set New Years Resolutions or Goals at the beginning of the year, Well, the year is almost half over. Where do you stand today? Have you achieved your goals? Are you feeling DUMB instead of SMART? Don’t. Let me help you.

Contact me today to sign up for coaching. Even the best need coaches. Professional Golfers have coaches. Athletes hire coaches. Executives hire coaches. I have a coach.

Contact me at Tony at Goal Getting Podcast dot com and let’s get your goals this year. Don’t just feel smart, feel successful.

4 Ways To Fight Fears that Cripple Your Success

Fear of Failure, Fear of Success, The Impostor Syndrome are fears that affect our success.  Do you suffer from these?  I wrote the speech linked here for my 10th Speech in the Competent Communicator manual for Toastmasters International. I am a member of a company Toastmasters Club.  Completing the CC as it is called is a big step for me.

Creating and launching the Goal Getting Podcast has been exciting and I have put a log of hard work in getting this launched.  I have achieved my goal that I set.  However, it wasn’t easy.  It should have been easier this time around. I did a podcast back in 2004.  It didn’t take me very long to get it up and running.

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