ESTABLISHING YOUR GOALS

Starting this week off with a bang! Make a change by “repositioning your thinking”

Last week we discussed setting expectations and I told you that by doing so it would cause you to change and shift your thinking, behavior, and ultimately your performance. This week I want to challenge you to establish your goals and take responsibility for your life by actively pursuing them.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie

What are the top 10 goals in your life? To get a high paying job? To be debt free? To own a home? To start your own business? To be wealthy? To be healthy? To lose weight? To be in a healthy relationship? To earn a degree? To be right with God?

A goal is defined as the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end. The purpose of establishing a goal is to pursue and ultimately achieve it. A goal is not a New Year’s resolution! Hundreds of people every year make their resolutions with no intent to accomplish them. Many people try to treat goals the same way and are disappointed as they continue to go thru the same cycle over and over again. It’s insane to expect results without putting forth the effort to receive them.

Please don’t misunderstand me; I have set many goals in my years that seemed to never come to pass. Why was it so difficult to get certain things accomplished? After careful review of my actions, I realized my failures were simply because of the approach I was using to accomplish my goals. Then I begin to evaluate all of my successes and victories over the years and that’s when it finally clicked. My formula for anything that I have ever achieved was to Think it! See it! Write it! Work it!

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant’s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

As a soldier in the Army, my mindset has always been about getting it (the mission) done. When they told me it was not possible, I set goals an achieved it! I progressed thru the military ranks from E-1 to E-6 in less than six years. When I was told that it couldn’t happen for me, I set goals an achieved it! I became a warrant officer with less than seven years of service. This is not to brag or to boast of anything that I have done because all I did was listen when my father spoke, talked when He told me to speak, and executed when He gave me instructions. Think = strategize, See = visualize, Write = conceptualize, Work = productivity. One of the first things you must do when establishing your goals is to reposition your mind by taking an active approach. Here are a few points to consider:

1.Define your goal. How do you plan to reach it?
2.Set a timetable. When do you want to accomplish it?
3.Monitor your progress. How well are you moving toward it?
4.Be accountable and responsible for moving ahead. What safeguards will keep you on track?
5.Anticipate problems. What will you do if you hit a roadblock?

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David J. Schwartz

Live LIFE!!! One nugget at a time…