Vivid Goals Become Visible Goals

By: Honoree Corpron
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:41:47
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“Visible Goals” is excerpted from the book Tall Order! 7 Master Strategies to Organize Your Life and Double Your Success in Half the Time! by Honor?e Corpron

Identify categories within your vision, such as: employees, money, exercise, family and personal time, personal development and other “things” you want to acquire. How much new business will you produce? How many new customers? How many new employees? How much money are you generating? Where are you going on vacation? What new car do you want to drive?

With each successive piece, you’ll achieve greater clarity (sounding familiar?).

Suppose you want to make $30,000 this month, and each sale of your product or service is $2,500. Do the math. You’ll need twelve customers to reach your goal. Be as specific as possible. Words like more, a lot, some are too vague. There is power in precision.

Coach’s Commandments for Goal-Setting:

1. Write down your goals. This is the most important aspect of goal-setting: Writing down your goals creates the roadmap to your success.

Coach’s Insight: Although just the act of writing them down can set the process in motion, it’s also extremely important to review your goals frequently. Remember, the more focused you are on your goals the more likely you are to accomplish them.

Sometimes we realize we have to revise a goal as circumstances and other goals change. If you need to change a goal, don’t consider it a failure. Instead, consider it a victory because you had the insight to realize the goal you set wasn’t perfect and you had the courage to make a change!

“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!” -- Author Unknown

“If you don’t see it, you will be never be it.” -- Author Known (me)

2. Your goals should be based solely on your vision.

Write your goals in positive language. Define and work for what you want, not what you want to leave behind. You are using language to focus your brain in the exact direction your want it to take you. Part of the reason for writing down, examining and re-examining your goals is to create a set of instructions for your subconscious mind to carry out. Your subconscious mind is a very efficient, powerful tool that does not distinguish the real from the imagined, and it does not judge. Its only function is to carry out instructions. The more positive instructions you give it, the more positive results you will get, and the faster you will get them.

Coach’s Command: Positive thinking should not be limited to goal-setting, either. Apply it in everyday life to help you grow as a human being, too.

3. Make your goals congruent with each other.

In other words, one goal must not contradict any of your other goals.

Coach’s Example: A goal to buy a $750,000 home is incongruent with an income goal of $50,000 per year. This is called non-integrated thinking and will sabotage all of the hard work you put into your goals. Non-integrated thinking can also hamper your everyday thoughts as well.

4. Make your goals specific, precise, clearly defined.

Just like your vision, write out your goals in complete, vivid detail! Instead of writing “a new home,” describe the home you desire: “A 7,500 square foot contemporary with 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, an office with a separate entrance, and a view of the mountains on 20 acres of land.”

Once again, giving the subconscious mind a detailed set of instructions is crucial to goal achievement. The more clear, specific information you give the subconscious mind, the clearer the final outcome becomes, and the more efficiently the subconscious works to turn your dreams into reality.

Can you close your eyes and visualize the home I described above? Walk around the house. Stand on the porch off the master bedroom and see the fog lifting off the mountains. Look down at the garden full of tomatoes, green beans and cucumbers. Off to the right is the other garden full of mums, carnations and roses. Can you see it? So can your subconscious mind, and it will work relentlessly to bring your vision to reality as quickly as possible, in the exact way you have imagined.

Coach’s NOTE: This is where your mind has worked “for you” yet seemingly against you in the past. It has created what you have previously held in your mind as your vision. This is another reason to have a clearly-defined, written vision.

5. Include a timeline.

Timelines are vital to goal achievement. By when, exactly, must this goal be achieved? “This year,” “soon,” “in a little while,” or “later” doesn’t cut it. Pick a date. If it’s not on the calendar, it’s not going to happen. Your timeline will need to be written like: “By June 30th, I have 12 new customers who purchase my services at $2,500 each.” You must be able to measure exactly where you stand now against where you want to be in the future.

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” --Napoleon Hill

6. Make sure your goals are big enough!

I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying, “Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still reach the stars.” Goals should inspire you to move forward, perhaps with a little bit of a knot in your stomach. If your goals are too easy, you won’t be as motivated to achieve them. If they’re too hard, you might become overwhelmed and not even take the first, necessary steps.

Coach’s Challenge: Set your goals now. (Is there going to be a better time?)

Taking action right away reinforces to your subconscious mind you are serious about achieving your vision.

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