Weekly Success Tip

Last week, I suggested to you to write out 101 goals in just 20 minutes.

Many people at first think this is just not possible, but human nature is such that people like a challenge and warm to this exercise. Once they begin, most find that 90% of everything they will do with their life comes out in that 20 minutes. Amazing I know.

So now that you have your list of goals, you need to go through your list and circle your top 3, 5 or even 10 goals. If it's your top three usually you'll find it consists of one financial goal, one health goal and one relationship goal.

Having completed that, there is now a daily exercise to add. It is simply to write out on a piece of paper your top 3, 5 or 10 goals each and every morning. This should take only a few minutes of your time and can help to focus your mind on and seek out these goals.

Of course there are also several reasons why it may not work for you and there are some very successful people out there that have never sat down and consciously set a goal in their life! However, in my experience, the clarification of a few key goals you'd like to achieve is a triggering mechanism to unleash the awesome potential of your mind.

Without goals you can end up drifting along, seeing what will happen. I have seen many people live their lives this way and regret it deeply as they became older and realised the opportunities and time they had lost.

When you get in your car to drive somewhere, how many times do you not know where you are going? Occasionally you go for a 'drive' just to have a look around an area, but even then you know the general direction you are going in and you certainly know the way home again. It would be bizarre to not know where you are going each time you get in your car and yet so many people live their lives in this way.

They don't want to set goals. Sometimes they say that they want to live in the now and not set goals, but of course this is just an illusion. The goals they do set themselves are just short term goals, such as making dinner or going to see a movie. The truth is, every action we take is a result of setting a goal and going for it. Having a shower is as much of a goal as deciding to get a degree at university. The first is projected only a few minutes into the future, the second is for four years or more.

After all, if you don't plan your life, then who will? People who succeed in any area of life have set goals and achieved them. They have thought things through, they have decided what they are going to do and they have done it.  

Most people are not even aware that they have a choice. You do. You can choose to do it, you can choose not to. Either way you set a goal. The choice is yours.

This week, take time every morning to
write out your top 3, 5 or 10 goals