Monday 1 June 2009

Feeling Refreshed - What's your Goal?

First day back today from a great holiday in Tenerife. Way too many emails to deal with but I'm feeling very refreshed.

Relaxing by the pool is the perfect time to clear your mind and think of new ideas and get focused.

One of mine is to keep on top of my goal setting. People in the UK aren't generally known as good goal setters. We don't really set goals; we tend to set New Year's Resolutions. The problem with New Year's Resolutions is that you don't really keep an eye on your progress and it's only when you come to the end of the year that you realise, in most cases, that your resolution didn't happen.

Goal setting is a much better idea. Bruce King, one of the UK's leading sales and personal growth specialists, has just published a 4 point guide on Goal Setting:

Goal Setting
You attended a seminar or read a book about goal setting and you were all fired up. You established some exciting and challenging goals and even set a date by when you would achieve them. Everything was going to get so much better from then on. And the days went by and the weeks went by and the months went by - and those goals simply slipped from your mind.

Has that ever happened to you? Regrettably it happens to most people - unless they keep to a formal routine and keep those goals at the forefront of their conscious and subconscious minds, linked together by really strong neuronal pathways. The simplest and most effective way to do this is:

1: Write your goals down in a GOAL BOOK. Collect pictures and photographs which illustrate what your life will be like when you have achieved those goals and paste them in. Read it every day.

2: Keep a daily journal and record everything you did that day that moved you towards achieving your goals and everything else that came to mind that that you could do to make them happen even faster.

3: Carry out a Visualization exercise at least once a day and preferably twice a day for at least twenty minutes. Use my Visualization CD to keep you on track with this. (See Products page)

4: Repeat your affirmations to achieve those goals, out loud and with enthusiasm, at least twenty five times, twice a day.
And the days, and the weeks and the months will go by and one day you will wake up and find all that you had dreamed of is yours.

Your can find out more about Bruce King on his website -  

http://www.bruceking.co.uk/development/achievers/indexnew.asp

If anyone is interested in Goal Setting and would like to know more on the subject, please give me a call on 0845 363 1173.