Steps to
Achieve Goals
Step 1 – Develop Desire – Intense
, Burning Desire
This is the motivational force that enables you
to overcome the fear and inertia that hold most people back. The greatest
single obstacle to setting and achieving goals is fear of all kinds. Fear is
the reason you sell yourself short and settle for far less than you are capable
of. Every decision you make is made on the basis of emotion, either fear or
desire. The Law of Concentration tells, The more you concentrate on a
particular thing, it grows. If you dwell upon your desires, if you think about
them and write them out and make plans to accomplish them continually, your
desires eventually become so strong that they override and push aside your
fears. An intense burning desire for a specific goal enables you to rise above
your fears and move forward over any obstacles.
What
is your major definite purpose? What is your overarching goal? If you were
guaranteed success in any one area, what
would you want to accomplish? Review the 7 goals setting questions until you
become perfectly clear about what would make you the very happiest. Deciding
what you really want is the starting point of all great achievement.
Step 2 – Develop Belief
To activate your subconscious mind you must
absolutely believe that it is possible for you to achieve your goal. You must have complete faith that you deserve
the goal and that it will come to you when you are ready for it. You must
nurture your faith and belief until they deepen into and absolute conviction
that your goal is attainable.
Because
belief is the catalyst that activates your mental powers, it is important that
your goals be realistic, especially at first. If your goal is to earn more
money, you should set a goal to increase your income by 10 or 20 0r 30 percent
over the next 12 months. These are believable goals, goals that you can get
your mind around. They are realistic and can therefore be a source of
motivation for you.
If
your goal is too far beyond anything you have accomplished in the past, setting
it too high actually makes it a demotivator. Because it is so distant, you seem
to be making little or no progress toward it. You become discouraged more
easily and you can soon stop believing that it is possible for you.
Step 3 – Write It Down
The goals which are not written, are not the
goals. Those are only wishes or fantasies. A wish is a goal with no energy
behind it. When you write a goal on a paper you crystallize it. You make it
something concrete and tangible. You
make it something that you can pick up and look at and hold and touch and feel.
You have taken it out of your imagination and put it into a form that you can
do something with.
One
of the most powerful of all methods for implanting a goal into your
subconscious mind is to write it out clearly, in detail. Exactly as you would
like to see it in reality.
Decide
what is right before you decide what is possible. Make the description of your
goal perfect and ideal in every respect. Don’t worry, about how the goal is
going to be achieved. You remain job in the beginning is to be absolutely
certain about exactly what it is that you desire, and not to worry about the
process of achieving it. The most important reason for writing them down, aside
from clarifying them in your mind, is that the very act of writing them down
intensifies your desire and deepens your belief that they are achievable.
Step 4 – Make a List of all the
ways that you will benefit from achieving your Goal
Just as goals are the fuel in the furnace of
achievement, reasons “why” are the forces that intensify your desire and drive
you forward. Your motivation depends upon your motives, your reasons for acting
in the first place, and the more reasons you have, the more motivated you will
be.
One
of the work is to keep your desire burning by continually thinking of all of
the benefits, satisfactions and rewards you will enjoy as a result of achieving
your goal. Some people are motivated by money and the possibility of living in
a big house and driving a beautiful car. Others are motivated by recognition,
status and prestige, by the idea of earning the admiration of others.
Make
a list of all the benefits- tangible and intangible that you can enjoy when you
will achieve your goals. The longer the list, the more motivated and determined
you will become.
Step 5 – Analyse your position,
your starting point
Find out your starting point, it gives you a
baseline from which you can measure your progress. The clearer you are about
where you are coming from and where are you going, the more likely it is that
you will reach too your destination.
Step 6 – Set a Deadline
Set a deadline for your goal, program it into
your mind and it will activate your subconscious “forcing system” which ensure
that you accomplish your goal by that date, at the latest.
Often
people resisting deadlines for fear that they will not achieve their goals by
the time they have set for themselves. They do everything possible, including
leading the deadline vague, to avoid the feelings of discouragement that might
occur.
Probably
80% of cases, if your goals are sufficiently realistic and your plans are
sufficiently detailed, and you work your plans faithfully, you will achieve
your goal by your deadline.
Step 7 – Make a List of all the
Obstacles that stand between you and the accomplishments of your Goal
Wherever great success is possible, great
obstacles exist. In fact, obstacles are the flipside of success and
achievement. If there are no obstacles between you and your goal, it is probably
is not a goal at all, merely an activity. When you have listed every obstacle
you can think of, organise the list in order of importance. What is the biggest
single obstacle that stand between you and your goal? This is your rock. On
your pathway to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile, you will experience
a series of obstacles, detours and roadblocks. But almost invariably, there is
one big rock or major obstacles that lies across your path and blocks your
progress. It is this rock that you must focus on removing before you get
sidetracked dealing with smaller obstacles and problems.
Step 8 – Take additional
information for achieving the Goal
Make a list of all the information, talents,
skills, abilities and experience that you will need and then make a plan to
learn, buy, rent or borrow this information or skill as quickly as you can.
Step 9 – Make a List of all the
people whose help and cooperation you will require
Make a list of all people who will co-operate
and help you in achieving your goals, list may include your family, your boss,
your customers, your bankers, your business partners or sources of capital and
even your friends. To accomplish anything worthwhile, you will need the help
and cooperation of many people. Take this list and organise it in order of
priority.
Step 10 – Make a Plan
Write
out, in detail, what you want, when you want it, why you want it and where you
are starting from. Make a list of obstacles you must overcome, the information
you will require, and the people whose help you will need. With answers to
steps one through nine, you have all the ingredients of a complete master plan
for achievement of any goal.
Step 11 – Use Visualization
Create a mental picture of your goal as it
would appear if it were already achieved. Replay this picture over and over
again on the screen of your mind. Each time you visualise your goal as
accomplished, you increase your desire and intensify your belief that the goal is
achievable for you. And what you see is what you get.
Step 12 – Never, never give up
Back your goals and plans with persistence and
determination. Never consider the possibility of failure. Never think about
quitting. Decide to hold on, no matter what happens. And as long as you refuse
to quit, you must eventually be successful.
Develop
the ability to persevere in the face of the inevitable obstacles and
difficulties you will face.
Shikhar
Prajapati
(Motivational
Speaker and Corporate Trainer)
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