How can people say they have set goals if they haven’t written them down. You may believe that you know what you want but in answer to the question ‘Why the need to write out my goals’ you will be amazed how many times you change things as you write them out and as they clarify in your mind. Have you heard the term, motorised memory, that is where you remember more things by writing them down than any other way, we vizualize things rather than imagining the words themselves,so by writing out your goals as fully as possible it is an important factor in goal achievement. This is the best step if you do it this way, as you write out your goals enjoy the feeling of having achieved them, experience the difference it has made to your life. Please be patient the reason for this will be clarified a little later.

So many people blieve that goal setting only involves your professional goals when to get your life in perfect balance you need to devote as much time to setting social goals such as those for your family, your well-being and relaxation. You old nine to five job meant that you looked forward to the clock hitting the moment you could go home, one of the dangers of working for your self is that you lose quality family time by ‘just completing this last task’ life balance is critical. Your family will support you but getting a work to life balance is essential for more than just keeping your relationship together.

Finally the most important part of goal setting, which is why I said that writing your goals out was very important is vizualization. Remember I said that in order to set good goals you need to know where you are going to end up before thinking about how to get there, this is where vizualization plays its part, because you have not got the thing you want you have to vizualize what it will be like when you do have it, how will your life change. You cannot write anything out on paper unless you have a clear image in your mind before doing so, so do you see how that very act of preparing to write out your goals brings a sharper truer image to your mind than if you did not write them out. This is a vital step in goal achievement, remember you are after goal achievement not goal setting, get this bit right and you are over half way to making your dreams come true. From the chair you sit in to the car you drive they all were a thought before they manifested into material reality.

If you do not believe that you can use vizualization just try these little exercises. Ever since we lived in caves man has thought in pictures, even his earliest language was pictures not words, so if I say Tiger to you a picture of a tiger will spring into your mind not the word itself. Try another one, when you last went on holiday and you were deciding where to go, as you read the brochure describing the area did you just see words or imagine  the scenes in your mind. When you read a book your imagination paints pictures of the scene that is being described. We use vizualization every day of our lives.

I confess I love showing people how to use vizualization in their lives and have spent the last 25 years doing so.