Life Is What You Make It!
There is hope. No matter how impossible your dreams may seem, nothing is impossible to those that believe. Do you want more free time to travel and spend with family and friends? Got your eyes on a home or car? Are you contemplating your entrepreneurial skills? Thinking about your life’s purpose? See yourself achieving your goals. Create mental pictures.
Your dream home awaits you, homeownership is within your reach. You have what it takes to start your own business. You deserve to live and experience life abundantly…stress and worry free…see yourself in the picture.
If you have set goals in the past but failed, your strategy for achieving your goals may have been at fault.
Are You a Goal Setter or a Goal Getter?
The difference between a goal setter and a goal getter is a goal getter takes their goals seriously, is passionate about their goals, visualizes themselves as having already reached their goals, and has absolute faith that they will achieve their goals.
The goal setter sets wish list goals that they don’t believe that they can achieve causing them to not take their goals seriously. Consequently, they are unable to visualize themselves accomplishing their goals, they have no faith in their ability to reach their goals, and as a result, the goal setter never realizes their goals.
You have the power within you to become a goal getter. If you have the self-discipline, will, and desire to meet and even exceed your goals, this advanced strategy will change your life starting today.
Your Goal Getter Guide:
1. Determine what you want and need to live a balanced and abundant life. Set goals that include the 7 most important aspects of your life: family, finances, social, physical, spiritual, emotional, & mental.
2. Use time frames to determine short-term, long-term, and lifetime goals. While your lifetime goals may change, it is important that you set lifetime goals because you can use them to effectively guide the direction of your life helping you determine your short and long-term goals. Time frames: 20 year, 10 year, 5 year, 3 year, 1 year, next month, next week, and tomorrow.
3. Put your goals in writing to keep yourself motivated, excited, accountable, and to stay organized. If your goals change rewrite them.
4. Be very specific, concise, and clear about what you want as you write your goals. (Instead of saying I want a house, you say something like my house has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a laundry room, a kitchen with an island, a 2 car garage, with beautiful views from every room overlooking the Pacific Ocean. see the difference? be very specific).
5. Use positive statements when writing your goals to help stimulate vivid mental pictures of your goals. (Instead of saying I will not gain weight, say something like I maintain my health by exercising daily and eating right. get the picture? It’s easy to visualize yourself on a treadmill and eating healthy meals. Its difficult to create a mental picture for not gaining weight).
6. Create a goal board with pictures of what you want to attain. Look at your goal board daily and visualize yourself achieving your goals.
7. Write down your reasons for wanting to achieve your goals and how you will benefit by achieving each one. Write down things that you can do to reach your goals.
8. Rewrite your goals in present tense regularly, as if you have already achieved them. Affirm your written words with spoken words by reading them out loud daily. This will set Universal Laws in motion (The Law of Attraction) while increasing your faith, belief, and resolve.
9. Keep track of your progress and reward yourself for achieving each goal. Be creative, have fun, and turn it into a contest to help you stay motivated and focused.
10. Make sure that your goals are in fact your goals and no one else’s. Your goals must be based on your own beliefs, desires, wants, needs, self-image, and expectations. Only share your goals with supportive people that have their own goals.
Your every day actions should bring you closer to your goals. You must be persistent and you must follow through. It is not enough to put your goals on paper. You must follow up your written goals with action and hold yourself accountable.
Stay focused, positive, and believe that you can achieve your mission. Goal Getters set and achieve their goals and Never Give Up.
That last picture of the house is simply beautiful! Where is it located?
I really liked and identified with this post! I just wrote one that has a similar theme, and you might like it, you can check it out here:
http://www.mynewhustle.com/index.php/hustlers-inspiration-live/
You have a really positive blog here and you’re doing a great service to people! Keep up the good work!
every body needs somebody sometimes ? is your grandmother a blues brothers fan ??? lol but your a right. setting a goal is the first step to success. nice post
staying focused, staying positive and believing are absolutely the way to go! great post!
Inspirational article. Keep it Up.
i’m pretty good at goal setting, but i have to remind myself everyday to take ACTION and GO GET my goals. im building this habit of working hard, staying focused and being determined. Thanks for this reminder.
The last picture is really get me motivated. How i dream on living in that kind of house. This article is inspirational to me. Thanks a lot!
If I really want to get things done, I start my list in the morning. Prioritize and give myself a time frame. Try it, it really works.
Thanks so much for your positivity! You truly seem to care about the well being of all. Keep up the good work and I will keep reading. This blog has been quite inspirational for me.
Stuff all this goal setting.. No wonder people are so stressed trying to achieve all the time. How about enjoying life and relaxing. You can achieve plenty of things in life without having to write things down.
I have to agree with NL on this. I think the only way to stick with a regular workout routine would be to treat it like a relaxation period. Most people think relaxation means to hang out on the couch but a good easy paced workout can also be a great getaway.
I think it’s safe to say that everyone feels better when they leave the gym. If you put too much pressure on yourself it can be tough to follow for a long time.
I always have goals but I can never achieve them. So sad to think about the failure but I never stop having goals as that is what motivates me.
Everybody have goals but the determination to achieve it is differs individually. So believe in yourself and hardworking in everything that you do in matter of times suddenly all goals achieved….
Even though everyone has different goals. But everyone would have a same mind, ‘i must achieve my goal!’ as exfatguy said, believe your own. You may having a talent that others don’t have
thanks for the very inspirational post. I need these kind of words to get me motivated
thanks for the very inspirational post
you are right- setting a goal is the fist step to succes
There are so many great ideas in the goal setting/getting post! I have printed out the 10 steps to really become a goal getter. I’ve always written my goals down but I end up losing the paper they were on and forgetting about what I was trying to accomplish. Thanks for the great ideas! -M
Thanks for reminding me to be serious. God richly bless your work
Great inspiring post.. Thanks a ton. Keep it up
I've just started goal setting and I'm amazed at how much more I get done! I love the photo of the house. That is gorgeous
You've opened my mind.
Many thanks!!
Great post! What I liked the most was how you talk about goal setters and goal getters. Thank you
Its true, you either do or you don't (and make excuses why you didn't)
What a great post! very accurate and 100%spot on! I love this quote: "Are You a Goal Setter or a Goal Getter?" I have that posted on my wall for daily reminder! Thank you!
I've never been one for setting goals until this week. I actually wrote them down and will work hard to achieve them – I'll see what happens
Thanks for posting Your Goal Getter Guide, I have copied the ten steps
Thanks again!
I have many,many time cut out pictures of big log homes…
And yep . . Now I live in one! As Zig Ziggar says – "If you want something in life just make sure you help everyone else get what they want and then you will get what you want." –
Kind of a paraphrase actually… Ziggy is the man!!
I'd like to recommand a goal setting tool at http://www.GoalsOnTrack.com, a very nicely built web app designed for tracking goals and todo lists, and supports time tracking too. It's clear, focused, easy to navigate, worth a try.
the most important thing about goal setting is taking action on the goals you set, because without action you won't achieve anything. You then have to keep going and going until you finally get what you were going after.
This post is a great example of what everyone who wants to achieve anything should be doing. Im a big fan of using a "dream board" which consists of photos of what I want to achieve.
What about sub-goals and making a plan for success. I have tried several approaches, and for me it is best to have a roadmap towards my goal. It just makes it so easy to achieve
Setting goals is so important for reaching success in life. Fantastic use of imagery to create tension to move goal getter's forward to reach their goals. Visualizing is an important element to achieving our goals!
This is a great article. I think that good goal planning is important. The truth is that people are lazy. We need to break things into measurable bit sized pieces or we would never accomplish anything.
I think that if people would realize that an act of will is a all or nothing event, then they would be able to use the word "do" instead of "try" and accomplish many more of their goals.
My sister has been having some trouble with setting goals and STICKING with them! I emailed this to her in hopes that it would help her out