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Taking it to New Levels
Class #10
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- Read the "Story of Sam"
- Goals
- Life Planning Process
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- Story of Sam
The power of goal setting is undisputed - it is one of the most common characteristics of successful individuals. Read the biographies of some of history's most successful men and you will find that they had concrete dreams, visions or goals of what they wished to achieve.
Yet studies have shown that only a mere 3% of the general population ever practice goal setting properly.
In this lesson you will learn how to adopt the habit of goal setting and align this concept with some of the other techniques you have learned from this program.
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- Goals
Goals: Step #1 - Define Clear, Concrete Goals of What You Want to Accomplish
Sam motivated himself by knowing what he wanted and setting a concrete goal within a time-frame. When he opened his first store, he decided that he wanted his store to be "the best, most profitable variety store in Arkansas within 5 years."
Goals: Step #2 - Think Big
We create our own limitations. Most of us are guilty of aiming too low rather than aiming too high. Sam Walton dreamt big - even as a kid. With each accomplishment his confidence grew, and his goals became greater and greater. He did not set limits on himself.
When you're setting a goal, keep this in mind:
"A good goal should scare you a little - and excite you a lot."
Think of your current goals and test them against this rule. If your goals do not both scare and excite you - try targeting something a little more challenging.
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - as long as you really believe it 100 percent."
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, world renown actor, sportsman and Governor of California
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Goals: Step #3 - Don't Let Defeat Get You Down
Sam liked to smile when he thinks of one of his early bosses at J.C. Penney who had told him "I'd fire you if you weren't such a good salesman; maybe you're just not cut out for retail."
He did not let other people's negative ideas influence him. When he lost his first store he overcame his depression, then packed is bags, moved to a new town and started again.
Perhaps if Sam had not lost his first store and been forced to start new in Bentonville Wal-Mart would not have been founded. Defeat, when viewed from a greater perspective, is often simply a mechanism of setting us on the right path or teaching us a valuable lesson.
Goals: Step #4 - Desire - Belief - Expectancy
Your goals must meet the criteria of Desire, Belief and Expectancy.
The goal must be something you strongly desire. The greater your desire the stronger your will to pursue the goal. Napoleon Hill said "If your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess super-human powers to achieve."
Next, the goal must be something you believe is in the realm of the possible. This depends on your belief system. As you accomplish more in life your self-belief grows. This increases your confidence and fuels you to accomplish even bigger things.
Finally, you must expect the end result to occur.
EXERCISE #1 - Please answer the following questions:
- What is your biggest goal at this time?
- Why do you desire your goal?
- Do you belief you can achieve this goal ... I mean 100% believe it?
- Do you expect it to happen? Remember your vibrational energy ... what you give your attention and focus to is what you will attract.
Sam Walton said...
"I expect to win. I go into tough challenges always planning to come out victorious. It never occurred to me that I might lose, it was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy."
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Expectancy is harder to create. But the tool of creative visualization helps tremendously. Your subconscious mind cannot distinguish between a real experience and an imagined experience.
By frequently visualizing the end result you desire you cause your subconscious to accept it to be real. This causes the mind to draw that situation into your life. Perhaps, no one has summarized this point more clearly than Gandhi when he said:
"The man I want to become, if I believe myself to be, I will become"
EXERCISES #2 - Please answer the following:
- When visualizing your goal as though it has happened, what do you see?
- Can you visualize the fine details?
- Do you have extreme clarity on the visual?
Remember, if you are confused about what you want that's exactly what you will get ... the state of confusion.
- The Life Planning Process
Now that you understand the principles behind goal setting, it's time to put together everything you've learned so far.
Life Planning: Step #1 - Identify What's Important to You
Think of the various aspects of your life. Health, Family, Friends, Career, Spirituality, Finances, Charity, Education...etc.
Identify which of these focus areas are the most important to you. Perhaps your main concerns are Family, Spirituality and Career. Come up with a list and rank each area in order of importance.
Life Planning: Step 2 - Set Long Term Goals in Each Area
Come up with a vision of where you'd like to be five to ten years from today in each of these areas.
Maybe your career vision is to be running your own business. Your family vision may be to take your spouse and children on a trip to Australia. Your financial vision may be to have $250,000 in the bank.
Think of what you want. Remember the rule - a good goal should scare you a little - and excite you a lot.
Life Planning: Step 3 - Decide What You Need to Do This Year to Achieve Your Long Term Vision
So you want to have $250,000 in savings in the bank by 2009. What do you need to do this year to hit this goal? Perhaps you would need to take a course on investing, get a better paying job, or start looking for new business opportunities.
Do this with each long-term goal. This exercise helps you focus on both long and short-term planning.
- Many people tend to plan for only the short-term and lose sight of their long-term vision.
- Others only set long-terms goals but then forget what they need to do right now to achieve these long-terms goals.
- To be effective at goal setting you need to have a long-term vision and short-term plans to get to this vision.
Life Planning: Step 4 - Put it All Down on Paper
You start by first looking at your long-terms goals. Write down your long term vision for each focus area in the appropriate row and column.
Next ask yourself the question
"What do I need to do this year to make sure I'm on track for my long term vision?"
Write down your short-term goals in the appropriate row and column.
This document should be flexible. Go ahead and add new goals when you think of them. You can also remove older goals if your plans change.
The graph below is another example of the one above. This allows you to break the long term goals into short term tasks.
Life Planning: Step 5 - Begin the Process of Creative Visualization
You should place Life Planning Chart in a location where you're likely to view it daily. It could be in an office drawer you open daily, as a file on your computer desktop or in a frame on your wall.
When you meditate daily, spend a few minutes visualizing yourself achieving each goal. You could also create an affirmation for each focus area.
Life Planning: Step 6 - Begin taking Action towards Your Goals
You now have your long-term vision. You have the steps you need to do this year to achieve that vision. Now put your plan in action.
Take a step, even the smallest step towards that goal.
When you take your first step you set the wheels in motion for your mind to manifest your dreams into reality.
Make it a point to start your life planning process as soon as you can and to practice goal setting and creative visualization on a daily basis.
It's never too late to begin creating the life of your dreams.
Remember, what you think about the most and give your attention to is what you will attract. The Law of Attraction just is!
- Check Out
What is one thing you learned tonight that will help you to plan your goals better?
What is one thing you will start planning for immediately to assure more success in the future?
Good luck! Go forth and plan your best days ahead!
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