MORE ON GOALS

Are you ready to develop your goals?  Did you brainstorm from yesterday's post?  Did you write down things you want to change?  Take a look at your list and pick your top four.  Now it's time to put them in a format that will inspire, compel and energize you.  You must write them in a way that they make you desire to do something different.  If they don't, you won't.

For example, let's say I want to lose weight.  If I wrote, "to lose 20 pounds by June 1st"....I'm not sure that would really inspire me to go on a diet.  After all, I've been on many diets.  What makes this goal any different from the attempts I've made in the past to lose weight?  However, what if I wrote it like this:  "By June of this year, I, Janice Willett, am going to weigh a slim, trim, vital, healthy, energetic 135 rock-hard pounds."  Would you agree that the second goal gives a more vivid picture and a more inspiring one?  It makes you want to be there, doesn't it?  

The second piece of advice is to put yourself or your name IN your goal!  Make it personal.  Let's say you want to increase your financial wealth.  You can find a way to inspire yourself through words other than just saying, "I want to make more money".  How about something like, "I, Janice Willett, am on a journey to build my financial earning power and wealth so that I can live without regrets, serve without hesitation, and give without explanation."  Ok, so maybe that doesn't inspire you, but it's not supposed to inspire you - it inspires me! lol  You need to write a goal that inspires YOU.

Try it.  Put it in rich, descriptive language that you can see, feel, and desire.  Write them out, put them in your own handwriting and keep them close at hand where you can read them every single day.  You must review them every day because it's the fuel that keeps you on track.  

Now get going and I'll meet you back here in a few days to start developing your plan.