This past week, I’ve told you about the importance of setting goals. Have you done any more research or tried to sit down and write out some long term, mid term and short term goals for yourself?

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Value based goal setting as discussed here will definitely help you in figuring what goals to set. And most people just never get around to setting any goals or even thinking about their values. If you do it, you’ll be among about only 3 or 4% of the population that actually takes some time to set long term and short term goals. And that’s very good company to be in - you’ll find that any successful person set goals for their self and then worked on an action plan to achieve them.

Most of the goals you set - your quantitative goals, should have a deadline. You set the deadline. This deadline should be reasonable with about a 50 or 60 percent chance of achievement. In other words, the goal should be challenging - something that you must put some extra effort into in order to succeed, but it should not be so high that it is unbelievable to you. For a financial goal, if you’re only earning $15 ,000 a year right now, a goal of earning a million dollars within 12 months is so far fetched that you won’t even get to work at it.

On the other hand, a goal of increasing your income by 20% is doable within 12 months. You will of course have to actually put some effort into something - and spend some of your time differently - but if you’re at $15,000 a year, wouldn’t an extra $3,000.00 be something that would interest you?

If you’re really having problems with figuring out your values and then creating your goals around your values, I once again do really recommend the Maximum Achievement program by Brian Tracy. This is what got me started on goal setting and achieving over a decade ago - and in about three years after listening to it and putting in practice the exercises and making the effort, I was able to quit my full time job. Wouldn’t you like to be able to do that?

And if I could do it, you can too. We all have our “disadvantages” in life, but as Brian Tracy points out, that’s nothing but “excusitis.” You can either continue on with a life of excusitis or put a stop to it right away.

My excuses?

  • I worked shift work, often involving long periods of days in a row that I had to work.
  • I was going through a marriage separation and had an extremely large monthly child support payment to make each month.
  • After the child support payment and rent was paid each month, there was about 200 bucks left over to pay for transportation, food, the odd gift I might manage for my kids, and whatever other surprise expense came up.

But I had the advantage of the “Maximum Achievement” system.

Of course, it won’t work for you if you don’t put effort into it. It won’t work for you if all you do is listen to the CD’ and put no effort into the excercises or suggestions for discovering your goals and planning your own success.

Packed full of wisdom and cutting edge information about the most effective techniques for personal motivation and achievement, Brian Tracy’s program will help you. I know a number of folk who buy every self-help book or “get rich” program and read - somehow apparently hoping that by reading, it’s going to make them rich. Or happier.

Sometimes I even thought that as well when I was younger, but then I discovered the Maximum Achievement Program - and so much was answered for me!

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