What do you really want? The importance of having goals All new companies start off with a business plan, a blueprint highlighting all the aspects of the company’s targets for the future business year. This detailed map provides the company with all the essential information it needs to begin achieving success. A business plan contains: OCompany objectives. ODirection. O Route on how to get there. O Details of the tools that are going to be needed. O What to expect at certain points along the way. O How and when to assess these objectives and recognize that they have been finally achieved. Without a perceived destination, a company has no focus or direction, and will struggle to make any progress, let alone operate successfully. To hit a target you must first know where to aim. Your subconscious mind works in exactly the same way. To achieve anything you want to Now answer these questions: 1. What are your goals? 2. What are you hoping to achieve by reading this book? 3. What is it you want to change or gain? Our clever subconscious mind has all the tools, adaptability and learning power necessary to deliver us all the goals of our desires, whether it is in our working, social or personal life. One of the main problems we struggle with that prevents us from achieving this, is that we often don’t actually know what it is that we want. Negative or positive We all have a list of the things we don’t want in life and spend an awful lot of time and energy trying to avoid these negatives: O Don’t want to be in debt. O Don’t want to fail the interview. O Don’t want to be rejected. Unfortunately this is where we let ourselves down and make one of our biggest mistakes.Remember, our subconscious cannot operate in the negative. Every program and response it operates is always done with a positive intention. It has no logical reasoning and cannot process negative language, To hit a target you must first know where to aim. Rookie Buster Remember, our conscious mind can only focus upon a limited amount of information at any given time (five, seven or nine pieces), so if we are using this limited amount of attention space to focus only upon the things we don’twant to happen, the only reality your conscious mind is perceiving is a negative one. Ironically, because our subconscious mind can only process positive commands, if we focus all of our attention upon things we are actually trying to avoid, our subconscious is inevitably turning it into our reality. You have to maintain your focus upon something in order to know when to avoid it, which is a great strategy if you want to avoid disappearing down a pothole or standing in something you shouldn’t. However, when it comes to understanding your mind’s interpretation of your own reality, should you choose to spend all of your limited focus and energy trying to avoid the things you don’twant in life, you could end up overlooking and missing the things you dowant. From an NLP perspective, to enable any changes to take place, a goal must first be established. Once the subconscious mind has an objective in place, it can then begin developing all the programs necessary (a map) to get there. Our conscious mind can only focus upon a limited amount of information at any given time (five, seven or nine pieces). Exercise: Creating our targets 1. Is your goal in the positive? O What do you actually want? Remember, your subconscious cannot function in the negative, so it is important that you stop focusing upon what you don’t want to achieve. I don’t want to fail my interview, I don’t want to be disorganized, I don’t want to make a fool of myself. O Make sure you state your goal as a positive command. What specifically do you want to achieve? What’s the benefit, the something to be gained rather than avoided? I want to be successful and professional in my interview, I want to be organized and focused, I want to be confident and relaxed in my interview. 2. Are you doing it for yourself, and is it within your control? O Are your intentions solely for your own gain, or are you trying to keep someone else happy? O Does the goal’s outcome rely upon others or you? 3. How will you know when you are starting or close to achieving it? O How will you recognize you are achieving your outcome? O What will be you be doing when you get it? O What will you hear, see, and feel? O What impact will it have on your life, and what will it affect? 4. Is the context of your goal clearly defined? O What are the specific details of your goal? Clarify what you want and what you don’t want. What do you really want? 29 O When, where, how and with whom do you want it? Having a clear idea of all the specific elements of your goal will help break down the steps needed to take you there. Chunk down the information into manageable and achievable pieces. 5. What resources do you need to make this happen? O Do you have the necessary tool or skills to make your goal happen? O Do you already have the resources, and if not what do you have to do to get them? O Have you ever done anything like this before, or has anyone else achieved this before, and how can that help you? O What impact would it make if you acted as though you already had the resources? 6. Is it ecological? O If you achieve this goal, how will it impact on your life? O Is it in harmony with all aspects of your life? O Why do you really want this? O What will happen if you get it? O What won’t happen if you get it? O What will happen if you don’t get it? O What won’t happen if you don’t get it? 7. Have you identified the first steps you need to take? O What is the very first thing you need to do to start making this goal happen? O What are your first steps, leading you to take action? O When are you going to do it? Only you have the power to make your dreams come true: unless you take the first steps, your ambitions will always remain just wishful thinking. See you tomorrow :)
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:30:00 +0000
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