Posts Tagged ‘career goals’

Create Your Own Future History – By Knowing Where You Want To Go

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

If you look at the barriers of life as obstacles you will hit each one, look ahead, begin with the end in mind and reach goals which today would appear impossible.

Look at your life as you want it to be not as it is, visualise success, stop dwelling on lack of success, for whatever you think about will be manifest in your life, we would still be living in caves had the greats of old not visualised how life could be.

Are you aware of what a powerful creator you are, do you know that everything that is happening to you or has ever happened to you is, without exception, in full response to your thoughts – and more importantly – the emotions behind those thoughts, you may even believe you are a victim fate, you are not a victim, it’s simply a matter of understanding the Law of Attraction.

Your thoughts are governed by whatever you see in your mind’s eye, and what you see is the result of all your life experiences to date, we make decisions based upon the records of past results we have experienced that are all locked away in our mind, we draw on these experiences in our everyday lives, unfortunately most people have a wealth of negative experiences on which they draw and it takes a conscious effort to visualise positive rsults for the future.

The ability to visualise is a natural attribute, it is something that you can learn to do extremely well with practice, if you do it properly, and consistently, visualisation can help you to move ahead further and faster than perhaps any other process you could engage in, one of the most important exercises in visualisation is “getting the feeling” this means that you imagine something you would like to be, have or do. You then imagine that you have already accomplished it, and you create the emotion that would accompany the accomplishment of the goal. Most people are so busy doing, and often the doing is not constructive, …. expectations of positive outcomes will serve to drive all your future action towards that positive outcome.

It is the wise and successful people who take a few minutes each day to look at what they want to achieve, build in their minds the final outcome, before finalising what they want, they examine critically why they want it – and only when that is firmly in their minds do they create visualised images in their mind’s eye visions of their lives having achieved what they want by doing this every day their actions drive them to succeed, average people never succeed because in the first place most do not know what they want or more importantly why they want it and spend their lives thinking of what they do not want so this is what manifests in their lives.

What do you want to be doing five years from now, running your own business; a senior manager in your organisation; a great parent, etc; regardless of your answer, the key question is, “What are you doing now to prepare for it?” if you’re not preparing for your future today, don’t expect to achieve your hopes and dreams in the future, it is unrealistic to expect to get where you want to go without establishing goals and developing a plan to achieve them fortunately we all have the innate ability within us to create our own future whatever we want it to be, but you must take action today no matter how small.

Creative coaching or training in leadership skills is the building block of long term success. It is not just the theory you get from a book that will design your future performance, but the experiences you live every day. Keep repeating motivational phrases when faced with negativity in your business or career, self management leads to effective performance when these tools are used.

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A Time of Accountability

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Why is it that the second hand on your watch seems to go around the face quite slowly yet the days flash past, weeks whizz by, the months slip easily one into another and the years well just do not seem to exist, or am I starting to get old.

It is the time of the year when we should look back and take stock of where we were in January ’08; where we are now, how many of the goals we set out to achieve have been reached or are well in progress and how many have fallen by the wayside.

No matter how many fell by the wayside never think that you have failed, you may have a lack of results but the very fact that you set out to achieve something this year placed you head and shoulders above 95% of the population.

So many individuals live by the seat of their pants every day, reacting to situations and blaming the government, their bosses, friends, family and neighbours for their situation. Instead of taking a hard look into the mirror on the wall and asking when was the last time they took full responsibility for everything that happens in their lives.

I have been privileged over the years to run a number of training courses helping individuals to discover what they would like to achieve and giving them stepping stones to help them.

I do not care if you wanted to achieve a major event or what may have appeared a minor event in your life the important thing is to decide that you want to achieve something in the year ahead.

Here is a little phrase to study and learn from:-

In order to HAVE you must DO, in order to DO you must BEBE; DO; HAVE is the order of achievement. So many people get that the wrong way around and wonder why they have a lack of results. They want to have before anything else hence the ‘have now pay later mentality’.

  • What is meant by BE in the above statement?

    When setting a goal unless you see in your minds eye a picture of your life as if the goal was already achieved and how it has effected you and the people around you, you will never achieve the goal. It is called creating your future history. Best example is that of Mohammed Ali the greatest boxer in the modern era, he used to say “I am the greatest”, not “I want to be the greatest”. He was castigated at first for adopting this stance but he SAW himself the champion of the world when he stepped into a boxing ring for the first time. His utter belief drove him on.

  • If you get the BE correct the DO becomes easier. Begin with the end in mind as long as you do that the DO (How) sets itself out. Look if I want to drive to a strange part of the country without the aid of Sat/Nav (that’s cheating). I get my road map out, look up where I want to go; when I find it I look around the page to see if I recognise anything, another town or Road, etc. I then trace a route back to my starting point. That way I know where I want to end up, the route I took to get there and where I am at this moment. You cannot do it the other way around. You cannot set off unless you KNOW where you want to go.
  • When the BE and the DO are in place you have the HAVE, it is automatic. If you set your goals correctly using a technique I developed in my book “The First Step” you are guaranteed to achieve them.

You will not have the same situation you have now, a feeling of ‘Could do better’, just like my old school reports!

To set you on your way here are a few questions you should ask yourself in your annual appraisal:-
1.What were your top ten achievements for 2008?
2. Did you celebrate any of your achievements?
3. If you did celebrate, how did you celebrate and who did you celebrate with?
4. If you didn’t celebrate, what got in the way?
5. Come up with a solution for each obstacle you identified.
6. Brainstorm a list of ways you can celebrate and reward yourself for your achievements. Make sure at least a quarter of the items on your list are low-cost or no-cost options.
7. As a result of these questions, what are you committing to? What date do you commit to follow through with your commitments?
8. What would, no WILL, you achieve in 2009?

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