What Are Your Goals and Resolutions for 2011?

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Why do most people set goals and resolutions and don’t stick to them in order to achieve them? Do you have a definite purpose by which you live? Are your goals set yearly to progressively achieve this purpose? Studies have shown that, people who don’t live by a unique and compelling purpose easily abandon their goals shortly after they have been set. What are your Goals and Resolutions for 2011, and how do you intend to focus and achieve them? This blog post will help provide some answers to these questions.

Defining your Purpose, Vision, and Goals. Your Purpose is a worthy ideal – your ‘Strong Why’. It is your creative and prosperous contribution to your life and that of others. It is your unique mission for adding value to life while living. Write down a clear statement of your purpose in a few sentences. Place it on a cardboard were you can clearly see it every time, such as close to your office desk, on the wall close to your bed or close to your home office desk. Doing this will ignite a sense of divine responsibility in you.

Your Vision is the roadmap to living your purpose. It is an image of what your life would look like once your purpose is being attained. Create a vision board and post pictures of key elements of your vision and/or write down a detail description in a vision notebook of how your life should look like when your purpose is being fulfilled. The mind only thinks in pictures. With clear pictures of your desires, your mind is set in order every time you set your eyes on your vision. Take a look at your vision board and read the detail description of your vision in your vision notebook every morning just after you get up from sleep and every night before going to bed. Include any further images on your vision board or further descriptions of your vision as deemed necessary. Most of the time your vision will represent your goals in image form.

Your Goals are milestones to your purpose. Goals are definite deliverables in time attesting that you are on the way to achieving your purpose as imaged in your vision. Achieving your goals is a vital part in achieving your purpose. People without goals are not different from a blind man walking down a busy street. They are always being tossed from every side by circumstances in their environment and never achieving anything of a worthy nature. Proper goal setting contributes enormously to goal achieving. When setting your goals, do not concern yourself with how the goal is going to be achieved. When people set goals, most of the time, they don’t really choose the things they really desire in life. They go for the easy things they already know how to achieve. In fact, one key requirement of a good goal is that: you DO NOT have to know how the goal is going to be achieved, but you must desire it with your mind and soul. As Zig Ziglar rightly said “Any goal casually set, will be abandoned at the first sign of defeat.” The more time you spend on the proper setting of your goals, the greater and faster your future achievements. Set at least 5 goals in various areas of your life as below. Also make sure your goals are distributed over time as short-term (next 6 to 12 months), middle-term (next 12 to 24 months) and long-term (next 3 to 5 years). Your goals must be in the present tense. In the creative process, the mind only deals with the present. You are creating the spiritual or thought counterpart of your physical goals that will manifest following the Law of Growth. The Law of Growth states that: every seed has a gestation period. The gestation period of the human fetus is 280 days. The fetus is made from the same original substance as the thoughts contained in your goals. Your thoughts and beliefs are the most powerful forces in the universe. You can use these forces either to your advantage or to your disadvantage, depending on whether you focus on your goals or not.

How to write your Goals

Your goals, if properly written, should look like this: [Date(dd/mm/yyyy)]. I am so happy and grateful now that I have created my own company. Where Date is the date at which you plan to achieve the goal.

Career Goals

For example: Create your own company, Gain promotion to a specific position, Win a particular award/recognition in your field, Achieve a particular annual profit result for your Company. Remember always use the format:

[Date of achievement]. I am so happy and grateful now that… [Goal description].

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Financial Goals

For example: X thousand dollars per month in personal income

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Personal Goals

For example: Buy or build dream home, buy the car of your dreams.

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Family Goals

For example: Get married, Special family Holidays every 6 months.

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Charity Goals

For example: Participate in giving to the underprivileged, create your own charity foundation.

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Mental (or Personal development) Goals

For example: Take a special seminar course per month, Listen to a self-growth course on CDs, Write a book in your domain of expertise, follow a keep-fit exercise program.

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Fun Goals

For example: take music or dancing classes, join lawn tennis club, travel to a particular touristic site.

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One of the single most effective success-accelerators is coaching. That’s why you find many great professionals having coaches. It will be surprising to hear that some Marshall Arts professionals have Kick-boxing coaches.

A coach or mentor helps breathe life into your intentions, transforming them into concrete goals and then providing you with the information and motivation you need to turn those goals into reality.

Here are just a few, but most critical, ingredients brought about by great coaching for extraordinary and consistent success:

• A coach will push you out of your comfort zone by requesting from you regular daily and weekly actions, and giving you unbiased and constructive criticism. Whether you like it or not, you will be defeating the ‘old you’ and making great strides towards your goals. You will only realize the great progress you have made in a surprise. This will increase your confidence level and make you proud of yourself as you meet up with the expectations of your Coach.
• A coach helps measure your improvements and provides you with detailed action plans. With a coach, you have found an objective measuring ‘rod’ for your actions. You will never be able to lie to yourself and stay in mediocrity. You will be brought back to the right direction of success and optimize your efforts.
• A coach communicates your progress in an inspiring and encouraging manner. You will become enthusiastic and your belief and commitment in your goals will increase exponentially. You will know how impactful your apparently little actions have been. They will show you how to harness the power of such little actions to reproduce even bigger results.
• Show you what extra capabilities you have, but which you are not exploiting. They can and will extract the best out of you. You will become a completely successful person in the eyes of your friends and acquaintances. Start setting your goals for today. Ensure you have a life purpose for which those goals lead to, and hire a coach to help you achieve your goals faster and easier.

Start setting your goals today. Ensure you have a unique life purpose to which your goals converge. Hire a coach, if possible, to help you achieve your goals easier and faster.

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Source by Sylvester Nkongho