Personal Development;Life Enhancement;Achievement
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Goals Part 2
Sep 4th
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” ~Doug Larson
The last entry told you that we would be doing dreaming together as part of goal setting. Tis true we will. There is great power in your dreams and I want you to have that power. It is the power to get past the things that have stopped you before. It is the power to get yourself to take the actions that you must in order to change your dreams into your reality. It is the power to put of procrastination and take action right away. Power. Power for good lives in your dreams and that is why we start goal setting with dreaming – we want, we need that energy to get past the obstacles that will absolutely come up.
For today, I just want to ask you a few questions, questions to prime you for the work we will be doing together:
1) Where are you in your life? Are you on track for where you want to be or have you gotten derailed somewhere along the line?
2) If you knew that you could not possibly fail, what would you be doing for a living?
3) When you look at your life right now – are you living your dreams?
4) When you look at your life right now – is this the life you wanted or is this the life someone else wanted for you?
5) Are there any big dreams that you have given up on? Why?
Give those some thought. Write down the answers. If most people set their goals for the year 5 minutes before New Years Eve, while drunk, and never review them again until the next New Years Eve; we are going to follow a path that ensures much better results and more fun. And you might start to get excited now – it’s okay. There is power in goal setting and once you have been thru the process once, your life is forever changed for the better.
Till next time…Jack
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) an Irish playwright – the only person awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) – perhaps best known for his play and movie Pygmalion
Goals Part 1
Sep 3rd
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” ~Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France; perhaps best known for Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Do you like to dream? Have you been known as a dreamer? Have you ever been told to “stop daydreaming and get your head out of the clouds”? Wonderful! Great! Good for you! Those skills will serve you well and the process of goal creation is going to be easy for you.
If you are highly practical, if you like to always stay “down to earth”, if big dreams seem wrong or grandiose or ridiculous to you, then you might find the process of goal creation, as I teach it, a bit of a stretch. Go ahead – stretch with me. You can always be practical tomorrow.
All, and I mean all, of my coaching around goal creation and goal achievement starts with dreaming. I start with dreaming because it works – when my clients and seminar attendees begin with dreaming, they achieve more, faster, and with more pleasure along the way. I also use dreaming as a critical beginning element of the process of goal setting because my teachers and mentors also believe in the power of dreams. Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Lee Pulos, Brian Tracy – all of these great teachers and many more incorporate dreaming into their work.
I am not sure how long this series of articles will be yet. I have been doing some very ambitious goal setting of my own lately and this process has been much on my mind. I also just ordered 5 new books related to goals, books written since my last indepth study of the topic, and there may be some new ideas to discuss. So, this series will last as long as it needs to. I promise you this though, follow along and you will get to your dreams faster and have more fun along the way.
Till next time…Jack
“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~Marsha Norman
(born 1947]) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist.
So What is Holding You Back from Achieving Your Dreams?
Feb 25th
“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” ~Author Unknown
I was thinking today about change. My work mostly involves helping people to change some, or sometimes many, aspects of their lives. It is often easier for me to help someone else to change than it is for me to help myself to change. That may not be completely accurate – let me say this instead: “It is always easier to help someone else to change than it is to help myself to change. Even with all that I know, and the many thousands of successful coaching sessions that I have conducted, I consistently have difficulty in making major changes for myself and by myself. That is why I am such a big believer in coaching. I think virtually all the people that I know have the same issue – it is usually far easier to help someone else than it is to help yourself.
I was also thinking about the easiest way to change and I believe that the answer there is focus. If you focus your energy on just one thing, changing for the better just one thing at a time, I think you are virtually assured of success (as long as you have a coach to help you). What should that one thing be? I know for me there are many things that it would serve me to change about myself. Here is how I choose: What is the one thing that I could change it, about myself or my emotional responses, or my habits, or my income, or anything else, that would make the biggest difference in my life?
For me, for 2008, the answer is my health. I needed to change my health more than anything else and I knew that this would make the biggest difference. So I have focused on it. I have a coach working with me on it and I am not investing significant energy in changing other aspects of myself until this is complete. The results? So far this year, in just under 2 months I have lost 4o lbs. of bodyfat. For me, that is exciting. I can see and feel the difference and it has happened because I have focused my energy, my intention around this change and I have a coach working with me to make sure that I stay on track.
So, what is the change that would make the biggest difference for you?
Till next time…Jack
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” ~W. Edwards Deming