“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ~Grandma Moses

Did you balance out your goals so that you have a nice mix of short, medium and long-term things written down?  Great!  Now here is your next task:  I want you to go thru all of your goals for the next twelve months and choose five of them to focus on.  Choose the five most exciting and compelling and empowering goals.  Many of my seminar attendees have a problem making this decision at first.  “But I want all of my goals!” – I hear this all of the time.  And I understand!  I want you to have all of your goals, but you cannot focus on all of them at one time and be successful.  It just doesn’t work.

What you can do is choose the five goals, spread across the categories of your life, that by accomplishing in the next year, you will almost as a side effect accomplish your other goals.  I call these goals the drivers.  As an example, here is a recap of my Top Five Commitments for 2009:

  • Health: I will return to my optimal bodyweight before the end of 2009
  • Family: My wife and I will  take our family to New York for a great vacation to celebrate my elder daughter’s completion of her graduate program
  • Business: I will blog 5 days per week – every week of 2009
  • Finances: I will earn more in 2009 than I ever have before – at least 25% more
  • Fun: I will run in the USA’s largest cross-country race: The Living History Farms Seven Miler.

Are these all of my goals for 2009?  Not even close!  But by focusing on these, by putting my concentration here, I can virtually guarantee that I will succeed in manifesting these goals and along the way, most if not all of my other goals for 2009 will also happen.

So, go ahead, choose your “Top Five” for 2009.  Make sure that they are not all in one category and make sure that they are exciting.  If they aren’t exciting, then rewrite them until they are.  Next time we will take these goals and put them into a workable vision – something that you can use and enjoy and benefit from every day.

Till next time…Jack

“My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.” ~Ashleigh Brilliant