DrMillionaire
10-07-2006, 10:44 PM
"To Make Serious Money,
You Must Know What You Want"
There is a well-known yet powerful method of achieving everything you want in life. It only takes five minutes. Anyone can do it but hardly anyone does.
Imagine - something you can do in just five minutes which can and will send your income through the roof,improve your relationships and power-boost your life towards total success. Wouldn't you want to do that right away? Hello!
I'm talking about the time-honored simple technique of GOAL-SETTING.
It has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt that people who set written goals lead richer, happier, more fulfilling lives than people who merely drift through
life, haphazardly.
Now if you're yawning and thinking "seen it, done it" I challenge you to go right this moment and fetch your own list of goals. If you are able to do this, it marks
you out as very special. If you cannot go and get your goal list, right this second, may I suggest you stifle that yawn and take a few minutes to do this exercise?
The great motivator Jim Rhon is fond of recounting how often people come up to him and say something like this: "Jim, a year ago I attended your seminar and
you got us to do that goal exercise. Well, I did it, but only because you said so. When I got home, I put that piece of paper in a drawer and forgot about it
completely. I found that list a couple of weeks ago and you know what?
Six out of ten of those goals had been achieved by me without my even remembering I had set them!" Read that last sentence again.
Now since this is so easy why do so few people do it?
----------------------------
Why People Don't Write Goals
----------------------------
For a person willfully to miss out on the staggering
advantages of setting goals, there must be a
psychological block somewhere. I believe the block is
the subconscious realization that every goal has an
associated price tag - that it doesn't come free. It
doesn't "flow freely from the wondrous bounty of the
universe." There is a price to pay in order to achieve
each goal. This knowledge evokes fear which triggers
inertia and this stops you from taking this important
first step.
Of course most people realize this subconsciously, and
after a decade of research, I now believe that I have
isolated the main reason why people do not set goals.
It is not ignorance. Everybody now knows the importance
of setting goals. Thirty years ago, this was a
startling new idea. No longer. Goal setting is a
powerful and proven tool for success in any field of
endeavor. Everybody knows this, but still they don't do
it.
Why?
It can't be the difficulty of the task. Writing out ten
goals is not a particularly arduous job - in fact it is
quite enjoyable and only takes about twenty minutes.
And yet 98% of people never write a goal in their
entire lives, even though the task of writing out your
goals is so easy and the rewards so obvious.
It isn't even the difficulty of pondering what it is
you ultimately want out of life - just ease yourself in
with some simple goals, say to move up to the next
biggest house and to earn an extra ten thousand dollars
this year. Leave complex life-goals ("Who am I? What's
it all about? Why am I here?") until you are happier
with the whole goal-setting process.
No, there must be something else, and I think I have
identified it.
To set yourself a goal means to set yourself up for
change. Any goal that you can think of, large or small,
basically reduces to the statement: "I hereby promise
to change in the following way..." We all fear change -
it is the unknown. Fear stops us dead in our tracks.
Above everything else, a goal is a written contract
with yourself to do something. To achieve even the
smallest goal requires discipline, work, and focus; all
three in some measure.
How do you think people react when faced with a
contract containing the words 'discipline,' 'work' and
'focus'? Why, they break out into a cold sweat. Their
hands tremble and seem unable to grasp the pen. They go
to sign, then draw back, then go to sign again.
Suddenly, they feel faint. The pen slips from their
numbed hand and clatters to the floor. They'll sign
that contract one-day real soon now - perhaps
tomorrow...
I believe this is why people don't set goals.
Until next time...
================================================== =====
Multi-Millionaire Helps Ordinary People Get Rich!
http://everythingforsuccess.com/profiles/DrMillionaire?c=faf
You Must Know What You Want"
There is a well-known yet powerful method of achieving everything you want in life. It only takes five minutes. Anyone can do it but hardly anyone does.
Imagine - something you can do in just five minutes which can and will send your income through the roof,improve your relationships and power-boost your life towards total success. Wouldn't you want to do that right away? Hello!
I'm talking about the time-honored simple technique of GOAL-SETTING.
It has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt that people who set written goals lead richer, happier, more fulfilling lives than people who merely drift through
life, haphazardly.
Now if you're yawning and thinking "seen it, done it" I challenge you to go right this moment and fetch your own list of goals. If you are able to do this, it marks
you out as very special. If you cannot go and get your goal list, right this second, may I suggest you stifle that yawn and take a few minutes to do this exercise?
The great motivator Jim Rhon is fond of recounting how often people come up to him and say something like this: "Jim, a year ago I attended your seminar and
you got us to do that goal exercise. Well, I did it, but only because you said so. When I got home, I put that piece of paper in a drawer and forgot about it
completely. I found that list a couple of weeks ago and you know what?
Six out of ten of those goals had been achieved by me without my even remembering I had set them!" Read that last sentence again.
Now since this is so easy why do so few people do it?
----------------------------
Why People Don't Write Goals
----------------------------
For a person willfully to miss out on the staggering
advantages of setting goals, there must be a
psychological block somewhere. I believe the block is
the subconscious realization that every goal has an
associated price tag - that it doesn't come free. It
doesn't "flow freely from the wondrous bounty of the
universe." There is a price to pay in order to achieve
each goal. This knowledge evokes fear which triggers
inertia and this stops you from taking this important
first step.
Of course most people realize this subconsciously, and
after a decade of research, I now believe that I have
isolated the main reason why people do not set goals.
It is not ignorance. Everybody now knows the importance
of setting goals. Thirty years ago, this was a
startling new idea. No longer. Goal setting is a
powerful and proven tool for success in any field of
endeavor. Everybody knows this, but still they don't do
it.
Why?
It can't be the difficulty of the task. Writing out ten
goals is not a particularly arduous job - in fact it is
quite enjoyable and only takes about twenty minutes.
And yet 98% of people never write a goal in their
entire lives, even though the task of writing out your
goals is so easy and the rewards so obvious.
It isn't even the difficulty of pondering what it is
you ultimately want out of life - just ease yourself in
with some simple goals, say to move up to the next
biggest house and to earn an extra ten thousand dollars
this year. Leave complex life-goals ("Who am I? What's
it all about? Why am I here?") until you are happier
with the whole goal-setting process.
No, there must be something else, and I think I have
identified it.
To set yourself a goal means to set yourself up for
change. Any goal that you can think of, large or small,
basically reduces to the statement: "I hereby promise
to change in the following way..." We all fear change -
it is the unknown. Fear stops us dead in our tracks.
Above everything else, a goal is a written contract
with yourself to do something. To achieve even the
smallest goal requires discipline, work, and focus; all
three in some measure.
How do you think people react when faced with a
contract containing the words 'discipline,' 'work' and
'focus'? Why, they break out into a cold sweat. Their
hands tremble and seem unable to grasp the pen. They go
to sign, then draw back, then go to sign again.
Suddenly, they feel faint. The pen slips from their
numbed hand and clatters to the floor. They'll sign
that contract one-day real soon now - perhaps
tomorrow...
I believe this is why people don't set goals.
Until next time...
================================================== =====
Multi-Millionaire Helps Ordinary People Get Rich!
http://everythingforsuccess.com/profiles/DrMillionaire?c=faf