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Making
Goals Stick!
by Wendy MacDonald
Spectrum SolutionZ |
What determines your future? Is it ‘choice’ or is it ‘chance’? More importantly is it YOUR choice that determines YOUR destiny?
Too many of us get into a rut, we live our lives doing what we’ve always done. The ‘rut’ got us to where we wanted to be last year - or did it? Did everything happen in your life that you expected last year? Did you achieve everything that you hoped for last year? Did you hope for anything - did you know what you wanted to achieve last year?
75% of adults in the US say that they set goals - out of that 75% only 15% write them down. Under 1% said that they followed through and actually achieved their goal. Where do you fit into this list?
There are two parts to achieving a GOAL - there is the INTERNAL part that comes first and then there is the EXTERNAL part . . . Let me explain what I mean, and I will start backwards - (do you work that way too?) . . . .
The EXTERNAL part of Goal Setting is when you write down the actual goal. This is usually the first part of goal setting for most people, and it may happen when someone else tells you what is required, or when you think of something that you believe you should achieve. For example if your Boss tells you that in the next three months, you need to bring in 10% more revenue. Or, if you think “I should lose 10 pounds before the summer.” You may look at your Boss’ goal for you and think - “Yes, I can do that - a few more sales calls - a few more cold calls, I can achieve that.” Or you may think - “Yes I know that if I don’t eat any bread and I give up my nightly dish of ice cream, I can achieve that.” So you write down the goal - you say this is what you are going to do - and then - you go back to your life. You may make a few extra calls for the first week - you may give up bread for the first three days (the ice cream is harder though - and it’s too much to give up everything good all at the same time - so maybe you’ll wait until next week to deprive yourself of the ice cream.) Yes, you set a goal because you should.
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When YOU are ready to achieve your SUCCESS contact Wendy MacDonald, Founder and CEO of Spectrum SolutionZ Inc.
Wendy MacDonald has owned and operated her own successful businesses in Utah since 1982. Returning from 3 years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she owned a similar company, MacDonald founded Spectrum SolutionZ Inc. in 1998 for the US and Canadian market.
At Spectrum SolutionZ we offer a 5 step personal ‘Strategic SUCCESS Plan’ that will help you define what SUCCESS looks like to you - and identify how you will reach it. Our mission is to help everyone realize their true potential and to achieve their own SUCCESS.
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Okay - so let’s talk about the INTERNAL part of setting a GOAL. This is the most important part, because, without this, you are not going to follow through to the end, to the full realization of your goal, yet this is the most unrecognized part of goal setting. This is the part where you - yes, YOU decide that it is important to YOU to bring in 10% more revenue in these next three months. Not just that you should, but that you really want to. There may be several reasons why you make the deliberate decision that you CAN make those extra calls - that you WILL make the changes necessary to find the time to make those calls. For the weight loss goal, when you really - really - want to lose those 10 pounds by summer, you know that realistically if you give up your bread and ice cream it will happen - you will look better and feel so much healthier, - you will be able to wear those summer clothes that have hung in the closet for several years. You WILL be able to give up the carbs - it’s only until the summer, it’s not for ever. In April you will be able to look back at the extra sales you made, and realize that you can do even better - and set yourself another goal - in June you may see yourself looking really good in your no-longer-dusty, 2 sizes smaller, summer clothes, and decide that you will only eat ice cream on Sundays with the family from now on. You have achieved the external goals because the Internal goals were significant to you.
Anthony Robbins says: “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that don’t inspire them.”
When you achieve a goal, it ALWAYS means that you have changed the way you did something. You pushed yourself up and out of those ruts you were traveling along and you deliberately chose to make more calls - to stop eating the bread and the ice cream. Even when you were tired - even when you craved the dish of ice cream - because the goal was something you REALLY wanted, it was worthwhile making that change, even though it was not easy. You deliberately set your INTERNAL Goal.
Achieving a significant goal will take time - achieving a significant goal will take many small steps and lots of internal ‘pushing’ to keep out of the rut that was your comfort zone. Remember achieving a goal is a process of changes and a series of small steps. If you don’t ‘set’ the goal you won’t know when you have achieved it. Setting the goal with ‘intention’ is your first step. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” And, completing a journey of a thousand miles requires only that you keep on walking! - Or - making more sales calls or pushing the bread basket away.
So, Step 1 in Goal Setting: the INTERNAL. Decide what YOU want. Be very specific on the ‘what’ it is you want. Be very clear in your own mind on the ‘why’ you want it. What it will do for you - why it is worth making changes and moving you up and out of your rut. Know that you are making a commitment to yourself, and know that you are going to need lots of self determination, as there will be all sorts of distractions, temptations and boulders that appear in your path. There will be many times when it will be much easier to slip back into that same old rut you where traveling along before you set this goal. Make sure that this goal is important enough to YOU so you will keep putting one foot in front of the other and you will keep on taking those steps towards your goal. When you are setting your INTERNAL goal think about your unique strengths - remember ‘who’ you are and how this goal is going to enhance your life. That will make the journey easier when you don’t think you can carry on.
Step 2 is the EXTERNAL. Once you have agreed with yourself that this is a significant goal for you. Write it down. Be specific in defining the goal and the steps you are going to take to achieve it. If visuals work for you put pictures on the fridge, put reminders on your mirror. Develop a GOALS calendar, and mark your milestones - reward yourself when you’ve made the first 7 extra sales calls and when you’ve lost the first two pounds. Your reward does not have to be expensive (or chocolate!) Tell everyone what you are doing and how you are doing it. Include others in your rewards so that they will encourage you and support you.
Change is always difficult, but remember the old adage: “When you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always got.”
Make sure that it is YOUR choice, not the direction of the ruts that determines YOUR destiny.
To your SUCCESS.
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Miracle Max: Don't rush me sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. |
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