The Way to Achieve Your Goal or the Art of Small Steps
5 ways to set goals correctly and achieve what you want
Success of assigned tasks and ability to organize oneself
Psychological components of self-organization in goal achievement
Completion of the assigned task - 100%! SMART system
Conclusion
Once you master the method of breaking down your goals into very small steps, you will achieve success in any endeavor quickly and easily.
A clear idea of where to go and systematic steps will definitely lead us to the intended goal. We will definitely achieve success as long as the goal is in front of us, because we know that we are going in the right direction.
Having analyzed the biographies of many, one can notice that achieving their goals and achieving their success is associated with their continuous movement forward. They constantly, every day, did what would inevitably bring them closer to their goal. Even if these were small victories, they were permanent.
Great empires are built not on big ideas, but on the ability to use small steps.
If you want to master the Art of Small Steps, you will need the following:
1. A clearly defined goal, so that you always know in which direction to move.
2. Route plan, or your map of the path you should follow to get to your goal.
3. Splitting the path into small sections is a very important point.
You must clearly understand what should be done today and what tomorrow. And let these be small, realistic tasks.
4. Consistency.
Every day wake up with the thought - what should I do today? And when you fall asleep, ask yourself - what have I achieved today?
You can reach any peak quickly and easily.
Today will go away faster than you know it. But before it disappears forever, think: What mountain am I climbing, and what will one more step give me... Perhaps I will get closer to the top. To achieve your goal!
5 ways to set goals correctly and achieve what you want
We do not achieve all of our goals - and often the matter is not laziness and weakness, but the inability to correctly formulate tasks and determine priorities. In his book “Brain Development. How to Read Faster, Remember Better, and Achieve Bigger Goals Roger Sipe writes about how to use brain science to become more productive and focus on putting your ideas and desires into action.
1) Reduce the number of goals.
Write down the 5-6 most important goals you want to achieve in the next 90 days.
2) Determine the key goal.
Now you need to determine which of these goals is key for you. Your core goal is the one that, when seriously pursued, supports most of your other goals.
3) Confirm the reason.
Now that you have one goal to focus on, it's time to answer the most important question: why? Why is it important for you to achieve it? The answer can be suggested by intuition.
To focus and tune your mind, you need to visualize your goals.
Your subconscious is billions of times more powerful than your conscious mind. It thinks and works differently in many ways. As we have already said, one important key to the subconscious is to understand that it operates with images. Consciousness controls coherent, linear thoughts, coming one after another, and the subconscious, in fact, just sees pictures and persistently strives for them.
Take advantage of this: give your brain something to look at! Give him images to work with.
5) Create supporting rituals.
To create a ritual, you consciously build certain automatic patterns of behavior that become tied to your goals. Here are three books that convincingly proved the benefits of this method:
James Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Life at Full Power.
Robert Cooper, "Don't bother yourself."
John Assaraf and Murray Smith, "The Answer"
Success of assigned tasks and ability to organize oneself
There is something in our activities due to which achieving our goals can become an illusory mirage for us. We are talking about the ability to organize yourself and your work. You can make the perfect plan. But without proper organization of the process, your plan will remain just a line on paper.
If a person does not know how to organize himself and his work, then he will inevitably face emergency situations. One way or another, the moment comes when the matter should have been “finished yesterday.
You probably already guessed that the ability to organize yourself and your work is not one skill. In fact, it is a system, a large group of diverse skills, which includes:
Psychological components.
Responsible for your mood, motivation, thought control and concentration.
Physiological components.
Included are elements that are associated with maintaining internal energy at the proper level.
Organizational components.
These include skills that allow you to increase the efficiency of your work.
Psychological components of self-organization in goal achievement
This group includes those methods that allow us to manage our thoughts, emotions and mood during the work process. The most important are the following three areas.
2. Attitude and motivation
There are methods that allow you to manage your self-motivation. And the two main approaches are reward and punishment.
Many people claim that it is easier for them to achieve their goals if they motivate themselves with a reward system.
And if you are also one of them, then try to develop your own personal system.
captivate you. For some, a chocolate bar may be enough, while others need a cultural program and watching a new film. The main criterion is that you need to choose something that lifts your spirits and also increases your desire to work.
3. Thought control and concentration
Secondly, the achievability of a goal implies that the goal should depend only on you.
Thirdly, the goal can only be achieved if it is environmentally friendly. That is, you must improve your financial situation without harming other people. Robing a bank is not an environmentally friendly goal.
R: The goal must be important.
The goal should be so valuable that you want the final result, so that you see yourself already in that picture, so that you place yourself at the moment when you achieved the goal. The goal must be tangible: you create a picture in which you have already received what you want, you already have what you want.
If a goal is truly important and valuable to you, then all the mechanisms within you begin to work to realize this goal. Everything in the world around you, helping you, pushes you to realize your plans. Everything around begins to work for this.
T: The goal must be limited in time.
Set specific deadlines.
It is necessary to remember that when setting a goal there is no place for the word “should”, but there is a place for a passionate desire to achieve. You will put logic aside, you will take only your passion and perseverance, which will lead to your cherished goal. Think about your goal in detail, richly, colorfully, with passion and zeal, richly, brightly. You will fill your target with the energy of burning desire. Then everything will work out in the best possible way, and a fireworks display of joyful events will fill your life.
The goal can be focused on:
Process (that is, you want to improve the quality of some process, improve your condition in this process and make it as comfortable as possible);
A habit (start drinking 2 liters of water a day, reading 20 pages a day, running in the morning, saying affirmations - developed by repetition for 49 days);
Result (SMART system - focus on the final result).
Conclusion
Any person who strives for success simply must learn to set goals correctly and achieve them. After all, it’s not enough to just set a goal, you also need to be able to achieve it.
To do this, you should learn how to properly distribute available resources. The more productive you start working, the faster you can realize your goals.
The tips in this article will help you set goals for yourself and complete them in the shortest possible time.
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Ecology of consciousness: We do not realize all our goals - and often it is not a matter of laziness and weakness, but the inability to correctly formulate tasks and determine priorities.
© Andrew B. Myers
We do not achieve all of our goals - and often the matter is not laziness and weakness, but the inability to correctly formulate tasks and determine priorities. In the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Farber" came out A book by self-improvement consultant Robert Sipe about how to use brain science to become more productive and focus on putting your ideas and desires into action.
Reduce the number of goals
Write down the 5-6 most important goals you want to achieve in the next 90 days. Why exactly so much? The main thing at this stage is to reduce: the period and the number of items on the list. Why? There are five or six goals, because, as we already know, consciousness is not able to effectively cope with excess information. It is easy for him to focus on only a few tasks at a time. Of course, there is a right time and place for what is called dream creation, when you get rid of all the limitations of thinking and time and indulge in bold and crazy thoughts. This exercise is useful for expanding your horizons and the capabilities of your mind, but now we will do something else. Take a calendar and determine the next checkpoint in about 90 days. Ideally this is the end of the quarter, the end of the month is also suitable. If the end point occurs in 80 or 100 days, that's normal; the main thing is to be close to 90. Why is this important? Because for about that long, a person can be very focused on one important goal without hitting the reset button and still see real progress.
It’s not for nothing that almost all diets or workout programs last approximately 90 days. A great example is the insanely popular at-home fitness program P90X. "P" stands for "power" and "X" stands for "Xtreme." Essentially just a marketing ploy. But behind the number “90” there are serious scientific justifications. The program is not called P10X, because you won’t achieve much success in 10 days, but it’s not P300X either: no one can stick to the program for that long without a break. Why do you think Wall Street places so much importance on companies' quarterly financial reports?
Because it is in this period of time that significant changes can be introduced without losing focus. In any important endeavor, a period much shorter than 90 days is too short to see real progress, and much longer is too long to clearly see the finish line. Study the next 90 days and write down numbers from 1 to 6 on a piece of paper. You will write down 5-6 most important goals that you want to achieve in 90 days. Now look at all areas of your life: work, finances, physical health, mental/emotional well-being, family, community involvement - so that your list is comprehensive.
While you're writing down your most important goals for the next 90 days, let's review what makes a goal effective. In the previous chapter, we looked in detail at the five essential characteristics of your goals, and here I will again list them briefly.
1 . What you write down should be meaningful to you. These goals are yours and no one else's, so be sure to record what you really want to achieve.
2. What you write down must be specific and measurable. We're talking about a 90-day program with a clear end date, so general phrases like “increase income,” “lose weight,” or “save money” are inappropriate. Be clear about what exactly you intend to achieve during this period. How much money can you earn or save? How many kilograms to lose? How many kilometers to run? What will your sales be (define specific numbers)? Your numbers or details themselves are not important to me, but specificity is necessary. By neglecting this step, you will miss out on most of the opportunities this process gives you.
3. Goals must be of a suitable scale: demanding, but at the same time achievable from your point of view. Remember: you have about three months to do everything, and then you’ll have to sound the all-clear. So choose goals of a suitable scale. When performing this exercise, you will have to choose between the options “a goal that is bolder so that you have to strain” and “a goal that is more modest so that you are on the safe side.” The choice depends on your experience and previous successes. If you are used to easily achieving the main thing or you are a little bored, then choose a more daring goal. If you are doing this for the first time, then you should choose a more modest goal.
4 . Even if it is obvious, I will emphasize: goals need to be recorded in writing. You will be doing both yourself and me a disservice if you read all this and do nothing. I didn't say "think about what you want to achieve in the next 90 days", I said "write it down." I assure you that the coordinated work of the eyes, hands and brain raises the selection and design of goals to a qualitatively new level. So, get your goals down with pen and paper, not just in your mind.
5 . You'll be reviewing what you write on a regular basis, so be honest with yourself and create goals that you're excited to achieve. Once you've laid the groundwork, we'll develop a whole plan with accountability to ourselves and programming elements, so keep in mind that you'll be interacting with those goals.
Enough descriptions - it's time to work! Take a pen and paper and write down your 5-6 most important goals for the next 90-100 days. Give it as much time as you need, and then get back to reading.
Define your key goal
Now you need to determine which of these goals is key for you. You may ask, “What is a key goal?” And that's great, because you've probably never looked at your goals like this before. Your core goal is the one that, when seriously pursued, supports most of your other goals. As you look at your short list, you'll probably notice that there are connections between many of the goals; you might even realize that some are competitive with each other. But I have found that in almost all cases there is one goal that, if pursued persistently, is most likely to achieve the desired results in all areas. I don't want to overcomplicate this. You may already know which of your goals fits this description.
Often, when a person gets to this stage, one of the goals he has written down will jump out at him and seem to shout, “Hey! Make my dreams come true!” If you have already found this goal, simply mark it on the list and then continue reading. If the key goal is not immediately visible, that's okay too. I myself often had to figure out which of my goals was key and where to direct my main efforts. You want the one that is most likely to help you reach the others.
There are several options. Sometimes achieving a key goal indirectly causes the implementation of others, almost automatically. It happens that a key goal requires the achievement of others as an intermediate stage or an auxiliary tool. And sometimes a core goal can impact your life so much that you gain the strength, confidence, and energy to crush any wall you encounter. Here's an example. Recently I started to figure out what I want to achieve in the remaining 100 days of the year, and came up with the following:
1 . Personal selling.
2. Personal income.
3. Pay the debt off.
4 . Run 355 km and do 35 strength training sessions.
5 . Meditate at least 50 times.
6. Take 14 days of guilt-free vacation by disconnecting from everything.
These were the most important goals. Please note that they are all specific and measurable. I knew I needed to boil them down to one and get serious about it. Strictly speaking, there is no right answer; none of them were better or worse than the others. Deciding where the major effort would yield the greatest return was entirely up to me. Guess which target I chose? Sales. The number itself wouldn’t tell you anything, but I’ll describe my line of reasoning. By fulfilling the sales plan, I would thereby receive income and ensure repayment of the debt. Achieving my goals would also allow me to find time to take a vacation. What is the connection with training and meditation? I knew that maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health would give me the energy I needed. So all these goals are interconnected.
If the main effort is directed towards a key goal, the subconscious mind actually takes on all these goals and the likelihood of achieving them increases significantly. Do you understand? Your next step is to do this with your goals: determine which one is the key to the others. If you have not yet selected it, then choose slowly. Make sure you are confident in your key goal before moving forward.
Confirm the reason
Now that you have one goal to focus on, it's time to answer the most important question: why? Why is it important for you to achieve it? The answer can be suggested by intuition. Sometimes the stars align in such a way that it dawns on you. You say to yourself: “I don’t need unnecessary reasoning. I’ve never felt such enthusiasm before, I’m eager to fight!” If so, great! Just write down your thoughts as a guide. If insight does not occur, try to stimulate your thinking with these questions:
Why do I want to achieve this?
What will achieving this goal give me?
How will I feel when I make this goal a reality? Self confidence? Delight? Peace? Inspiration? Strength?
How will achieving this goal help me become better or stronger? What do I need to grow in?
What else can I do after getting this result?
There are no wrong answers to the question “why”, and the more you have, the better.
Visualize your goals
To focus and tune your mind, you need to visualize your goals. So far, all your actions have been related to making plans. Most people don't even get to this stage of thinking about their goals, so you're already ahead. But there is still a lot you can do to speed up the process. Your subconscious is billions of times more powerful than your conscious mind. It thinks and works differently in many ways. As we have already said, one important key to the subconscious is to understand that it operates with images. The conscious mind controls coherent, linear thoughts, one after another (which even sound like sentences in your mind), and the subconscious, in fact, just sees pictures and persistently strives for them.
Take advantage of this: give your brain something to look at! Give him images to work with. Sometimes I have clients store images in a notebook or folder. Sometimes - create a dream board and hang it in your workplace so that you can see all the images at once. Many of my clients place pictures of their goals on cards along with affirmations. There are many ways to visualize your goals. Experiment and choose what suits you best.
Create supporting rituals
You won't have to sing hymns or sacrifice a lamb. To create a ritual, you consciously build certain automatic patterns of behavior that become tied to your goals. This is not just a technique I made up. Here are three books that convincingly proved its benefits to me:
- James Lauer and Tony Schwartz, "Life at Full Power"
- Robert Cooper, "Don't bother yourself"
- John Assaraf and Murray Smith, "The Answer"
The first two books helped me understand the science behind habits, and the third helped me create a step-by-step program that is now bringing great benefits to me and my clients. Do you know that most of your thoughts have become habits? Dr. Deepak Chopra claims that more than 99% of the thoughts we have today are repetitions of yesterday, and 99% of tomorrow will be repetitions of today. Actions are determined by thoughts, and many of them - at work, in relation to health, finances - are carried out out of habit. They are brought to the point of automation. Think about what you do in the morning from the moment you wake up until you go to work: how often is one morning similar to another? You put your feet on the floor, stand up unsteadily, brush your teeth, shower, drink coffee, get dressed, eat breakfast (maybe), drink coffee again, check email, drink coffee again, wake up the kids, make them breakfast, drink coffee again and leave .
Track your morning activities for a few days, and you might be surprised at how similar each day is to the next. So you already have automatic behavior patterns; I advise you to carry them out consciously for a while, and then replace them with new ones. There are two periods during the day when this will need to be done.
The first is as soon as you wake up in the morning. The first hour - or rather, the first few minutes - is a very good time to program your brain for success. During this time, it moves from sleep to wakefulness, and its waves are configured in such a way that your subconscious mind is extremely receptive to the “thought seeds” that you sow. Have you noticed how the first minutes after waking up can set the tone for the whole day? Have you ever gotten up on the wrong foot? Be mindful and you'll begin to see practical connections between starting your morning effectively and your results throughout the day.
Most people miss this opportunity: in the morning we either get nervous for various reasons, or move in a fog, not fully understanding what is happening. And many successful people purposefully use the beginning of the day to prime their minds and focus on their dreams and goals.
The second period when you need to program yourself is the last few minutes of your day. They are important for many of the same reasons as the first hour of wakefulness: it is a transition phase for the brain. During the last hour before going to bed, find an opportunity to repeat your goals and some affirmations in the form of images, and then express gratitude for all the good things that happened during the day. published
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Step 5: Create Supporting Rituals
Step 5 - creating rituals. But you won't have to sing hymns or sacrifice a lamb. To create a ritual, you consciously build certain automatic patterns of behavior that become tied to your goals. This is not just a technique I made up. Here are three books that convincingly proved its benefits to me:
- James Lauer and Tony Schwartz, "Life at Full Power"
- Robert Cooper, "Don't bother yourself"
- John Assaraf and Murray Smith, "The Answer"
The first two books helped me understand the science behind habits, and the third helped me create a step-by-step program that is now bringing great benefits to me and my clients.
Do you know that most of your thoughts have become habits? Dr. Deepak Chopra claims that more than 99% of the thoughts we have today are repetitions of yesterday, and 99% of tomorrow will be repetitions of today. Actions are determined by thoughts, and many of them at work, in relation to health, and finances are carried out out of habit. They are brought to the point of automation. Think about what you do in the morning from the moment you wake up until you go to work: how often is one morning similar to another? You put your feet on the floor, stand up unsteadily, brush your teeth, shower, drink coffee, get dressed, eat breakfast (maybe), drink coffee again, check email, drink coffee again, wake up the kids, make them breakfast, drink coffee again and leave . Track your morning activities for a few days, and you might be surprised at how similar each day is to the next. So you already have automatic behavior patterns; I advise you to carry them out consciously for a while, and then replace them with new ones. There are two periods during the day when this will need to be done.
The first is as soon as you wake up in the morning. The first hour, or rather the first few minutes, is a very good time to program your brain for success. During this time, it moves from sleep to wakefulness, and its waves are configured in such a way that your subconscious mind is extremely receptive to the “thought seeds” that you sow.
Have you noticed how the first minutes after waking up can set the tone for the whole day? Have you ever gotten up on the wrong foot?
Be mindful and you'll begin to see practical connections between starting your morning effectively and your results throughout the day. Most people miss this opportunity: in the morning we either get nervous for various reasons, or move in a fog, not fully understanding what is happening. And many successful people purposefully use the beginning of the day to prime their minds and focus on their dreams and goals. You are able to make your resolution to get up every day necessary feet and reap the benefits of a good start to the day.
Chapter 17 is all about the so-called power hour, the practice of daily energy management. If you want a detailed explanation right now, you can skip to this chapter. All I will say here is that I will teach you a specific 15-step process that you can use to create a winning mindset every day.
You may not want to use my 15 steps, and that's okay. For example, you don't like push-ups, you prefer tea, you like other videos, or you want to do only 6 steps. The vast majority of people do nothing at all. The essence of this method is to create conscious programming habits for the first hour of the day and diligently adhere to them for 30 days. This is exactly how long it will take to begin to change the behavioral patterns that have developed in the brain. By the end of this period, you will almost become addicted to the “power hour”. You will get involved in the process!
The second period when you need to program yourself is the last few minutes of your day. They are important for many of the same reasons as the first hour of wakefulness: it is a transition phase for the brain. Here I will advise you something much simpler than the “power hour”, but requiring the same awareness. During the last hour before going to bed, find an opportunity to once again repeat your goals and some affirmations in the form of images, and then express gratitude for all the good things that happened during the day. This is also a good time to think through your “daily big six” (see Chapter 12) and lay out your most important goals for the next day. You will set your thoughts for a restful sleep, the most pleasant visions and an energetic next day.
So, you now have five specific steps that we have learned from experience will give you mental focus for serious achievements. If you start working on them right away and include them in your daily and weekly schedule, you will definitely notice an improvement in your results.
Brain development. How to Read Faster, Remember Better, and Achieve Bigger Goals/ Roger Sipe. - M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2014. Published with permission of the publisher.
We do not achieve all of our goals - and often the matter is not laziness and weakness, but the inability to correctly formulate tasks and determine priorities. Mann, Ivanov and Farber has published a book by self-improvement consultant Robert Sipe about how to use brain science to increase productivity and focus on putting your ideas and desires into practice.
“Theories and Practices” publishes a chapter from the book.
Reduce the number of goals
Write down the 5-6 most important goals you want to achieve in the next 90 days. Why exactly so much? The main thing at this stage is to reduce: the period and the number of items on the list. Why? There are five or six goals, because, as we already know, consciousness is not able to effectively cope with excess information. It is easy for him to focus on only a few tasks at a time. Of course, there is a right time and place for what is called dream creation, when you get rid of all the limitations of thinking and time and indulge in bold and crazy thoughts. This exercise is useful for expanding your horizons and the capabilities of your mind, but now we will do something else. Take a calendar and determine the next checkpoint in about 90 days. Ideally this is the end of the quarter, the end of the month is also suitable. If the end point occurs in 80 or 100 days, that's normal; the main thing is to be close to 90. Why is this important? Because for about that long, a person can be very focused on one important goal without hitting the reset button and still see real progress.
It’s not for nothing that almost all diets or workout programs last approximately 90 days. A great example is the insanely popular at-home fitness program P90X. "P" stands for "power" and "X" stands for "Xtreme." Essentially just a marketing ploy. But behind the number “90” there are serious scientific justifications. The program is not called P10X, because you won’t achieve much success in 10 days, but it’s not P300X either: no one can stick to the program for that long without a break. Why do you think Wall Street places so much importance on companies' quarterly financial reports?
Because it is in this period of time that significant changes can be introduced without losing focus. In any important endeavor, a period much shorter than 90 days is too short to see real progress, and much longer is too long to clearly see the finish line. Study the next 90 days and write down numbers from 1 to 6 on a piece of paper. You will write down 5-6 most important goals that you want to achieve in 90 days. Now look at all areas of your life: work, finances, physical health, mental/emotional well-being, family, community involvement - so that your list is comprehensive.
While you're writing down your most important goals for the next 90 days, let's review what makes a goal effective. In the previous chapter, we looked in detail at the five essential characteristics of your goals, and here I will again list them briefly.
1 . What you write down should be meaningful to you. These goals are yours and no one else's, so be sure to record what you really want to achieve.
2. What you write down must be specific and measurable. We're talking about a 90-day program with a clear end date, so general phrases like “increase income,” “lose weight,” or “save money” are inappropriate. Be clear about what exactly you intend to achieve during this period. How much money can you earn or save? How many kilograms to lose? How many kilometers to run? What will your sales be (define specific numbers)? Your numbers or details themselves are not important to me, but specificity is necessary. By neglecting this step, you will miss out on most of the opportunities this process gives you.
3. Goals must be of a suitable scale: demanding, but at the same time achievable from your point of view. Remember: you have about three months to do everything, and then you’ll have to sound the all-clear. So choose goals of a suitable scale. When performing this exercise, you will have to choose between the options “a goal that is bolder so that you have to strain” and “a goal that is more modest so that you are on the safe side.” The choice depends on your experience and previous successes. If you are used to easily achieving the main thing or you are a little bored, then choose a more daring goal. If you are doing this for the first time, then you should choose a more modest goal.
4 . Even if it is obvious, I will emphasize: goals need to be recorded in writing. You will be doing both yourself and me a disservice if you read all this and do nothing. I didn't say "think about what you want to achieve in the next 90 days", I said "write it down." I assure you that the coordinated work of the eyes, hands and brain raises the selection and design of goals to a qualitatively new level. So, get your goals down with pen and paper, not just in your mind.
5 . You'll be reviewing what you write on a regular basis, so be honest with yourself and create goals that you're excited to achieve. Once you've laid the groundwork, we'll develop a whole plan with accountability to ourselves and programming elements, so keep in mind that you'll be interacting with those goals.
Enough descriptions - it's time to work! Take a pen and paper and write down your 5-6 most important goals for the next 90-100 days. Give it as much time as you need, and then get back to reading.
Define your key goal
Now you need to determine which of these goals is key for you. You may ask, “What is a key goal?” And that's great, because you've probably never looked at your goals like this before. Your core goal is the one that, when seriously pursued, supports most of your other goals. As you look at your short list, you'll probably notice that there are connections between many of the goals; you might even realize that some are competitive with each other. But I have found that in almost all cases there is one goal that, if pursued persistently, is most likely to achieve the desired results in all areas. I don't want to overcomplicate this. You may already know which of your goals fits this description.
Often, when a person gets to this stage, one of the goals he has written down will jump out at him and seem to shout, “Hey! Make my dreams come true!” If you have already found this goal, simply mark it on the list and then continue reading. If the key goal is not immediately visible, that's okay too. I myself often had to figure out which of my goals was key and where to direct my main efforts. You want the one that is most likely to help you reach the others.
There are several options. Sometimes achieving a key goal indirectly causes the implementation of others, almost automatically. It happens that a key goal requires the achievement of others as an intermediate stage or an auxiliary tool. And sometimes a core goal can impact your life so much that you gain the strength, confidence, and energy to crush any wall you encounter. Here's an example. Recently I started to figure out what I want to achieve in the remaining 100 days of the year, and came up with the following:
1 . Personal selling.
2. Personal income.
3. Pay the debt off.
4 . Run 355 km and do 35 strength training sessions.
5 . Meditate at least 50 times.
6. Take 14 days of guilt-free vacation by disconnecting from everything.
These were the most important goals. Please note that they are all specific and measurable. I knew I needed to boil them down to one and get serious about it. Strictly speaking, there is no right answer; none of them were better or worse than the others. Deciding where the major effort would yield the greatest return was entirely up to me. Guess which target I chose? Sales. The number itself wouldn’t tell you anything, but I’ll describe my line of reasoning. By fulfilling the sales plan, I would thereby receive income and ensure repayment of the debt. Achieving my goals would also allow me to find time to take a vacation. What is the connection with training and meditation? I knew that maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health would give me the energy I needed. So all these goals are interconnected.
If the main effort is directed towards a key goal, the subconscious mind actually takes on all these goals and the likelihood of achieving them increases significantly. Do you understand? Your next step is to do this with your goals: determine which one is the key to the others. If you have not yet selected it, then choose slowly. Make sure you are confident in your key goal before moving forward.
Confirm the reason
Now that you have one goal to focus on, it's time to answer the most important question: why? Why is it important for you to achieve it? The answer can be suggested by intuition. Sometimes the stars align in such a way that it dawns on you. You say to yourself: “I don’t need unnecessary reasoning. I’ve never felt such enthusiasm before, I’m eager to fight!” If so, great! Just write down your thoughts as a guide. If insight does not occur, try to stimulate your thinking with these questions:
Why do I want to achieve this?
What will achieving this goal give me?
How will I feel when I make this goal a reality? Self confidence? Delight? Peace? Inspiration? Strength?
How will achieving this goal help me become better or stronger? What do I need to grow in?
What else can I do after getting this result?
There are no wrong answers to the question “why”, and the more you have, the better.
Visualize your goals
To focus and tune your mind, you need to visualize your goals. So far, all your actions have been related to making plans. Most people don't even get to this stage of thinking about their goals, so you're already ahead. But there is still a lot you can do to speed up the process. Your subconscious is billions of times more powerful than your conscious mind. It thinks and works differently in many ways. As we have already said, one important key to the subconscious is to understand that it operates with images. The conscious mind controls coherent, linear thoughts, one after another (which even sound like sentences in your mind), and the subconscious, in fact, just sees pictures and persistently strives for them.
Take advantage of this: give your brain something to look at! Give him images to work with. Sometimes I have clients store images in a notebook or folder. Sometimes - create a dream board and hang it in your workplace so that you can see all the images at once. Many of my clients place pictures of their goals on cards along with affirmations. There are many ways to visualize your goals. Experiment and choose what suits you best.
Create supporting rituals
You won't have to sing hymns or sacrifice a lamb. To create a ritual, you consciously build certain automatic patterns of behavior that become tied to your goals. This is not just a technique I made up. Here are three books that have proven its benefits to me: James Lauer and Tony Schwartz, Life at Full Power; Robert Cooper, Keep Yourself Alive; John Assaraf and Murray Smith, The Answer.
The first two books helped me understand the science behind habits, and the third helped me create a step-by-step program that is now bringing great benefits to me and my clients. Do you know that most of your thoughts have become habits? Dr. Deepak Chopra claims that more than 99% of the thoughts we have today are repetitions of yesterday, and 99% of tomorrow will be repetitions of today. Actions are determined by thoughts, and many of them - at work, in relation to health, finances - are carried out out of habit. They are brought to the point of automation. Think about what you do in the morning from the moment you wake up until you go to work: how often is one morning similar to another? You put your feet on the floor, stand up unsteadily, brush your teeth, shower, drink coffee, get dressed, eat breakfast (maybe), drink coffee again, check email, drink coffee again, wake up the kids, make them breakfast, drink coffee again and leave .
Track your morning activities for a few days, and you might be surprised at how similar each day is to the next. So you already have automatic behavior patterns; I advise you to carry them out consciously for a while, and then replace them with new ones. There are two periods during the day when this will need to be done.
The first is as soon as you wake up in the morning. The first hour - or rather, the first few minutes - is a very good time to program your brain for success. During this time, it moves from sleep to wakefulness, and its waves are configured in such a way that your subconscious mind is extremely receptive to the “thought seeds” that you sow. Have you noticed how the first minutes after waking up can set the tone for the whole day? Have you ever gotten up on the wrong foot? Be mindful and you'll begin to see practical connections between starting your morning effectively and your results throughout the day.
Most people miss this opportunity: in the morning we either get nervous for various reasons, or move in a fog, not fully understanding what is happening. And many successful people purposefully use the beginning of the day to prime their minds and focus on their dreams and goals.
The second period when you need to program yourself is the last few minutes of your day. They are important for many of the same reasons as the first hour of wakefulness: it is a transition phase for the brain. During the last hour before going to bed, find an opportunity to repeat your goals and some affirmations in the form of images, and then express gratitude for all the good things that happened during the day.
