EP-11: Visualize The Achievement of Your Goals

Visualize The Achievement of Your Goals

Goal setting is a powerful tool that is made even more powerful when we use the subconscious mind to our advantage. Click To Tweet

Too often the subconscious mind plays goalie for the other team, using limiting beliefs that have been programmed into it from an early age. Using techniques to access the subconscious mind and reprogram it with positive, unlimited beliefs and thoughts will propel us to successful goal achievement.

I discussed some of the exercises we used in martial arts training to broaden our minds capabilities. The ability to “SEE” an image in my mind that another person was thinking directly across from me, showed me how powerful the mind is and what it can achieve if you believe.

Ep-9: Taming My Tiger – 3 Keys to Change Your Habits

3 Keys to Changing Your Habits

I studied to be a Hypnotherapist at Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Norcross, GA. HMI was founded by Dr. John Kappas in 1968.

After training, I completed 1 year Hypnotherapy Internship. I worked with clients on and continued to study Stop Smoking, Weight Loss, Relationship Counseling, Behavior Modification, etc.

Weight Loss Therapies – Hard because there are so many components to a person’s weight.

EP-8: What Gets Measured Gets Done

Tom Peters, the author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence, is often quoted

What Gets Measured, Gets Done! -- Tom Peters Click To Tweet

Read his Essay on his website http://tompeters.com/columns/what-gets-measured-gets-done/

Quantification and measurements is used in all aspects of business.

Checklists are crucial to ensuring success. Pilots perform pre-flight checks to ensure a safe flight.

One of my favorite books and seminars is by Air Force Fighter Pilots that started the company, Afterburner, Inc.

Their book, Flawless Execution talks about the execution of ideas, projects and goals and using checklists to measure the effectiveness. In their seminar and the book, they recommend setting up checklists to measure what needs to get done so you can ensure it gets done.

It is also important in Goal Setting. The M in SMART Goals is Measurable. When you set goals, they need to be able to be tracked and quantified.

Many businesses recommend and use measurement tools to track goals. When I attended Xinnix, The Mortgage Academy, we were trained to use a measurement tool to track our success as loan officers.

It used some of the same techniques that I learned in my training in Goal Setting and Success Achievement. I had been using these techniques for several years and they work really well.

It used some of the same techniques I teach in the Goal Getting, Don’t Just Set’em, Get’em Program to track and measure your goals so it was easy for me to adapt to the program.

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In No Lights, No Camera, Just Action, episode-7 – we talked about creating an action plan. In the Goal Setting Worksheet we offered at GoalGettingPodcast.com/action, we asked you to start defining the action steps you need to take to achieve the goals you set. Define the How, the action steps for each goal.

Once you define what you need to do to achieve your goal, we can start creating the measurements to ensure that you can track them to completion.

For those listening without the worksheet I am going to go through in some detail to give you an idea of what I am recommending be done. Remember, when you get to a computer, you can download your copy at GoalGettingPodcast.com/measure and then you can follow along later.

11 Keys to Success for Goal Tracking

1. Track it Daily. Each Worksheet is for one week, but you want to track what you do each day!

2. Major and Minor Steps. Set up Major Steps and Specific Action Steps, if necessary.
I set up the Major steps above as the eat Less, exercise More categories for Reducing Calories, Calories Burned and Calorie Deficit. These are major goals and accomplishments so I made them major steps/tasks and pay their achievement accordingly.

3. A Meaningful Measurement – Motivation, Miles, Money – REWARD

Many lender sales teams use the “Top Gun” concept for rewarding Top Producers in their organization, especially those that are trained at Xinnix. Xinnix used the same concept and we were trained to track our goals using Miles….The more miles you had the better skilled a pilot you are

The measurement I use and recommend is Money. Dollars. Currency. Money Motivates!

What gets measured gets done. What gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded get repeated.”
— John E. Jones

4. Goals for each Step / Task

What specific actions are potentially or goal producing activities. For instance, in the sample above, weight loss is the goal. Tasks that should be measured are those that will result in either burning calories or reducing calorie intake.If you are in sales, activities such as calling people in your database, doing presentations, following up on email or calls are steps or tasks that should be measured.

5. Minimum Weekly Targets for each Step – What do I want to do this week?

6. Weekly Totals for each step – How did I do this week?

7. Daily Totals of all steps – How did I do today?

8. Totals for all steps for the Week – How much did I do this week.

9. Total Accumulated Measurements – Keep totals for entire length of time

10. Average Weekly Measurement – Average Total over the length of time.

11. Signature and Date – Commitment, when you sign your name, symbolizes your commitment. This is one of the most important parts of this worksheet. The commitment to do what you need to do to succeed.

EP-7: No Lights, No Camera, Just Action

Stop Setting Goals?

Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, says you should stop setting goals.

I don’t think he is saying to stop setting goals. What I believe he is try to say is that, don’t bother if you aren’t going to put forth the action required to achieve those goals.

A Goal Without Action is Just a Wish! - Tony Woodall Click To Tweet

EP-5: Passion, Does it Drive You?

Passion, Does It Drive You?

Are you living a Passionate Life? Does Passion Drive You?

I gave a speech for my Toastmasters International Club at work.

Passion for Public Speaking? Learn Public Speaking & Leadership Skills at Toastmasters!

Toastmasters Meetings are Fun!

You should have a passion for 3 things in your life:

EP-4: Set A Deadline! A Goal Without a Deadline is Just a Wish

A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline. Set a Deadline on any goal you set.

EP-STAR: I Wanna Be A Rock Star – 4 Keys to Rock Your Goal Setting

“When I grow up, I Wanna be a Rock Star!”

This is my all-time favorite band, Grand Funk Railroad. The big 3 with Mark, Don & Mel. I took this in 1997 at their Washington, DC show. I first heard of GFR when I was a kid. I got a Screaming Red Electric Guitar for Christmas when I was twelve. I wanted to be a Rock Star.

But, I am not. At least not like this. I was able to see GFR live when I was in high school and again 8 more times when they started touring again in the 90’s.

EP-3: Get Real! Realistic Goals That Is.

Set Realistic Goals!

Be Realistic – This is also the R in SMART of SMART Goals fame. It therefore is a very important step.

Why is it so important? Setting up unrealistic goals is setting yourself up for failure.

If the Goal Can’t be Achieved, it likely won’t.

There is an old saying quoted by many Motivational Speakers, Goal Setting Gurus and such. “What the Mind Can Conceive, It Can Achieve.”

However, the quote from Napoleon Hill actually states:

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

EP-2: Written Goals – What Did You Say You Want?

What Did You Say You Want?

Goal Setting Concept - The What - Written Goals

The What – Clearly Defined Written Goals

In order to accomplish a goal, your mind must first know what you want. The brain is a very literal tool. It wants to, and will, give you exactly what you want. It will give you exactly what you BELIEVE you want.

There is a quote attributed to Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich and Outwitting The Devil,

What The Mind Can Conceive, it Can Achieve. However, the actual quote is

What The Mind Can Conceive, and Believe, It Can Achieve! - Napoleon Hill Click To Tweet

In order for the mind to believe it has to know, specifically, what you want. To make that clear, Napoleon Hill stated in Think And Grow Rich, that you should create not just written goals, but

Clearly Defined, Written Goals.

In Episode 0, we learned about the 3 Critical Concepts of Successful Goal Setting

We talked about the FIRST Concept – that I call – The What – What do you want?

As we discussed then, it is important to know What We Want To Achieve.

Napoleon Hill – for his book – Think & Grow Rich – Interviewed the most Highly Successful People of his time , people such as (Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, etc.).

Napoleon Hill wanted to know what they did differently from everyone else that propelled them to Success and great wealth.

What did they do that allowed them to achieve what they achieved?

From his studies and interviews he found 13 Principles,

The ONE COMMON THREAD with all of these successful people was they had – CLEARLY DEFINED, WRITTEN GOALS.

Each one wrote their goals down, but they were also were clearly defined.

Not just, I want to be rich! I Want to make a lot of money! I Want to be famous!

They were clearly defined! Each one knew very clearly where they wanted to go!

Speaker and Author – Mark Victor Hansen says that time has proven 2 of the laws/principles to be most important:

1) The Master Mind principle/process and

2) “Know very clearly where you want to go.”

If you’ve read any books about the current leaders of industry and highly successful people, you will hear the same thing …. They all had CLEARLY DEFINED, WRITTEN GOALS! They all knew clearly where they wanted to go!

Scientific Study Proves It – Written Goals Works!

In 2007, Dr. Gail Matthews at The Dominican University in Northern California performed a Scientific Study –

Why? – she and several other behavior researchers had heard about a Harvard or Yale study from the 50’s or 60’s that stated a certain percentage of Harvard )or Yale alumni had been more successful than others because they had written their goals down.

In their research, they found that the study never really happened. The statistics were non-existent – bunk that had been perpetuated by speakers since that time. But it never happened.

So they set out to find out “Would you be more likely to achieve your goals if you wrote them down?”

Their study included 5 Groups – ranging from Not Writing Goals Down to various levels of Writing them down with accountability or not.

The Conclusion of their study was –

The positive effect of written goals was supported! Those who wrote their goals down accomplished significantly more than those who did not write their goals down.

They found that you were 42% more likely to achieve goals if you write them down!

Do you want the odds to be with you? Then Follow Step #1 found in 9 Steps To Successful Goal Achievement – WRITE THEM DOWN!

Written goals will give you a 42% greater likelihood of GETTING the GOALS YOU SET!

Here is a link to Dr. Matthews’ Goal Study.

What does Clearly Defined, Written Goals mean?

Being Specific. Specificity when writing your goals will help the brain understand what you want.

Clearly defined, written goals should be specific. “Specific is Terrific!” – Tony Woodall Click To Tweet

Write your goals with Specific details as to what you want to achieve – This is Critical.

Grab a pen and a notepad and let’s work on some examples of your Clearly Defined, Written Goals.

For Example:
If you have a Weight Loss Goal:

You might write something like this:

When I wake up on May 1^st of next year, I will step on the scale and be excited to see that I now weigh 185 pounds. I will put on my new 34 inch waist pants and go celebrate!

Specific goal of 185 #, On a Specific Date (we will learn more later about deadlines), and I will wear a specific waist size.

Or, If you have a Project Goal of some sort, say to remodel your home. You might write something like:

I will complete the renovations to my kitchen on March 12^th of next year without incurring any additional debt.

In this goal, we have specific renovations, the kitchen, a specific date, AND an important part of the goal is that it will be done without incurring any additional debt.

This may be a very important part of the goal if you need to stay on a budget.

Goals are similar to Projects. Have you ever heard of Scope Creep? That happens when you have a project that hasn’t been fully defined and agreed upon. Things start getting added onto the project and eventually it starts creeping into more time, money or not getting accomplished at all.

Step 1 to Successful Goal Achievement is Write It Down!

Remember, when you start to set your goals. You must write them down, and be specific.

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EP-0: 3 Amazing Goal Setting Concepts

3 Amazing Concepts for Successful Goal Setting

Have you ever set New Year’s Resolutions?

Toward the end of every year people start planning what they want to do or change for the coming year. They set New Year’s Resolutions

A lot of people set resolutions… Most never complete them.

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t work.