Most people are familiar with SMART goals: Specified Measurable Acceptable Realistic and Time Bound. SMART is okay for specific targets, but there are two problems with this. First, it does not connect the goal with your senses which is necessary for you to have a powerful feeling attached. Second, it doesnt check with the ecology of the goal which is how it impacts the rest of your life. For that reason NLP works with well formed goals. For a goal to be well formed the goal needs to be at least: Positively formulated. What is it you want rather than what you dont want. Achievable for the individual whose goal it is and under their control. Specifically, defined in terms of what you can see, feel, hear, taste and/or smell so that you know when you have reached your goal. Well worth doing for the individual whose goal it is, his loved ones and the community at large. If you compare this form of goal setting with SMART goals then you see that well formed NLP goals allow for much more freedom as to what well formed goals can be and how to achieve them. This is understandable as the core value of NLP is freedom. This also ensures that the individual does not sabotage themselves because when they consider the goal in the context of their life and future, the ecological factor helps them know that it really is something that they want. You get even more freedom and certainty when you implement well formed goals in a way that sets a direction rather than a specific goal. By orientating someone towards the moment in time that he has achieved his goals and then working backwards you give someone a sense of direction in his/her life. You also ensure that the goals are in alignment with each other so you build in a more intelligent strategy for the person. The way to do this is as follows: Visualise vividly how life would be once the goal has been achieved. Improve this image by thinking about what else would be achieved if the most positive future scenario turned out the be real. Once you have a future image that feels really great, divide the time between the end goal and the now and imagine what milestones need to be achieved by then to reach your goal. Repeat this process for the halfway milestone, so you get a milestone at 50%, 25% and 10% of the journey. By imagining your future backwards from a certain goal achieved, you program your unconscious to go in that direction. Chances are that you wont get exactly what you imagined. Yet your unconscious distills from this future scenario the core values that you want out of life and steers your life towards those values.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:56:16 +0000
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