Tools to Use to Accomplish Your Goals?

By: Lance Winslow
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:41:45
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If you are someone who likes to a accomplish things in life then you generally understand the need to set goals for yourself and to break down those goals into smaller bite-size pieces in order to get to your main goal. Recently someone asked what type of tools do I use to accomplish my goals.

Well, one thing I do is I read and study up on the industry or industry sub-sector that I am trying to accomplish the goal in. Another thing I do is to network with other people who have had similar goals and ask them how they accomplished them.

The most important tool that I think I use to accomplish my goals is to envision myself as already having accomplished the goal. And I constantly feed my mind with positive biofeedback that I will accomplish the goal. Another thing that I have found extremely useful in accomplishing goals is to write them down, I do not do this as much as I use to as I really don't need to. But in my younger days I always wrote down my goals.

These days it is in my mind and permanently ingrained and burned in like a brand. I couldn't get it out if I wanted to and therefore I do not need to write it down. My mind automatically breaks the larger goal into many smaller objectives along the way that are based on a time frame of reference.

For instance I just completed writing 10,000 articles and putting them online. Actually I'm not quite done yet, but I feel as if I already have completed the project as this is article number 9,945 and I will be there in a couple of days. Now to get done with a 10,000 articles I told myself each day what my goal was to accomplish for that day and how many articles I want to write each month and I made sure I stayed on target as best I could.

Now that I'm almost there I find myself sprinting towards the finish line to get there before my projected date. So that is another tool that I use, I get close so I can almost taste it and I want so bad that I speed up the pace. These are the tools I use to accomplish my goals and they work for me so, perhaps you might like to use some of them yourself. And I hope they work for you too.

Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.

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