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Accomplish Your Goals - Learn One of the Most Powerful Strategies Used Everyday By Successful People

Dale Sellers, President
LifeLeap Institute
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Writing down (or typing) your goals is a personal development strategy that can’t be suggested enough. This is a basic, but one this is so often overlooked. When we write down our goals, it helps us to process them, to see how realistic they are, and to organize them better.    

More importantly, when we write down own goals, it somehow gives them more power, sets them more into place. Of course, you have to first decide what your goals are, what you would like to accomplish. But don’t take too much time coming up with you goals. Remember, by not deciding, you are still making a decision. 

Writing down your goals can be seen as filling out the request form to the universal delivery system. It impresses the goals into the collective consciousness allowing the universe, God, or whatever you call it, to start lining up the resources for you to accomplish your objectives. Maybe this is why in a recent Harvard University study, a group of people who wrote down their goals accomplished twice as many of their objectives than a group that did not write down their goals.   

You can’t just right down a general idea of what you want to accomplish and let your notes get sucked up into the low priority file on your desk – you have to make them specific, detailed, and you have to have a plan of how you are going to accomplish them.  

Consider putting some time and thought into devising your goal strategy. Many successful people have been known to have such a Master Plan containing twenty pages or more. Yes, it may take some work, but this is an investment. This is all about improving your life.  

Consider categorizing your “goal journal” and creating it in an outline form. This will make it easy to reference. To make it simple for you, we have included a three step process for writing down and planning out your goals:   

1. Write down the actual goal that you want to accomplish (include exact dates and dollar amounts if applicable) 

Example: a black Grand Marquis, grey interior, V-8, low mileage, great condition,  clean, 2 years old, $7000, by May 1, 2003  

2. Write the manner in which you are going to accomplish the goal 

Example: put intention out to universe, locate car, purchase car 

3. Write the detailed steps you are going to immediate start talking to accomplish you goal 

Example: Check classifieds daily, check online daily, make clear detailed mental picture of having car as if it is already happening, test drive car because I am “expecting” to get one soon!   

If possible, write these goals out in a word processor like MS Word. This way you can easily make any changes that become necessary. Print out a copy and put a copy in your office, in your bedroom, and in your car, or in your organizer if you carry it around with you every where you go.  

This way you can regularly check to what your goals are and what you need to do to accomplish them. Consider making a simplified version and read it aloud when you wake in the morning and before you go to bed at night. Verbalizing a goal tends to give your intention even more universal power.   

Now if you write down a goal, with a time target of completion, and nothing happens, what do you do? Scrapping or distancing yourself from the goal journal is probably not the answer. Instead, make an assessment of the steps that you took to complete your goal and look for ways that you can improve and then put a new date on the goal.  

Use your flexibly, patience, and creativity and “readjust the rudder” towards you goals.  Unless the goal is just not practical, if you keep making steps towards it, if you keep up with your persistence, you will eventually accomplish it. This is true sometimes even when the goal isn’t practical.   

There are countless stories of successful people failing consistently right before they actually made a big achievement. Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, Madonna, the list goes on. In fact when you fail, consider it as a learning experience of what not to do.  

So get to work on those goals. And when things don’t always go your way, keep on going. You can be sure of one thing - if you write your goals down along with the steps to complete them, you will see an improvement.