Are You Ready to Turn Your Goals Into Reality?

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910)

American philosopher, physiologist, psychologist, teacher

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How many of you have New Year's Resolutions? How many of those resolutions have been completed?

As you know, the key success factor to top achievement is setting and achieving goals. Toward the end of every year, and by the beginning of each new year, I have set at least 10 goals for myself in key result areas that are congruent with the roles in my life. But what do you know, life happens. Like a ship without a compass, it is too easy to let life happen, and before we know it, we are bobbing around in the ocean called circumstances, without any progress toward our key destination, represented by our goals.

The purpose of this post is to get you off of your butt, and past the starting line, off to the race!

Plant Plenty of Flowers in Your Garden

There are plenty of weeds in our mental garden, negative inputs that go contrary to a positive, optimistic mindset that will help you to achieve your goals. Therefore, you will need to plant the right kinds of seeds in such large quantities that they will eventually overwhelm those weeds with productive and helpful attitudes.

Richard Gilly Nixon, in his book The Lazy Man's Way to Riches, came up with the concept of the Daily Declaration. While the negative "weeds" in your mind may be the following: " That's the way I am," "I can't do that," or "I can't afford to do that," the practice of the Daily Declaration will help you combat and replace these thoughts.

A Daily Declaration is a statement regarding your goal that is positive and present tense. It's a statement of belief, even though you may not have entirely believed the statement when you first wrote it out.

The Daily Declaration Procedure:

Each Morning:

1. Immediately after you wake up, read your list of goals as you have prepared them, in their positive, already accomplished form. If you can tape yourself reading them, play them back to yourself in the car. Stand in front of the mirror, and repeat them back to yourself, with belief, out loud if possible.
   
2. After reading each goal statement, pause and visualize the goal completely, with all your senses. If you have a kitchen remodeling project goal, see it in your mind's eye, smell the new wood, the new paint, see the new cabinets, etc.

Each Evening:

Just before you go to bed, no matter how late it is, or how tired you are, repeat the same morning process.

Here is an example of a couple of "burning desire" goals used: one is a physical/material goal, and one is a personality quality.

• The $850 bill from Smith and Company is paid in full within 60 days.
• I face each day supremely confident in my ability to handle every detail of my thoughts and activities. I am certain of my capacity to perform in a superior manner.

When declaring the first goal, one would visualize the bill in question with 'Paid In Full' stamped across it. Then, once visualized, the goal would be repeated again.

In the personality declaration, one would read it slowly, giving careful thought to the meaning of each word. Then, one would visualize a situation in which one is performing with supreme confidence. This plants the correct image in your mind, so that when the situation does come up the next day or week, your subconscious mind is programmed to respond confidently.

Superior athletes are trained by sports psychologists to visualize the game, and to visualize themselves as winning. Life is a game, and you are the athlete. If Declarative Declaration works with pro athletes, don't you think it will work for you?! Try this for the next 30 days, faithfully, and I guarantee you will see some incredible results.

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