When you’re trying to get up the courage to do something drastic in your life, you can’t be vague. There’s an age old idea that ‘like attracts like’ and in the matter of attracting the life you want, you need to make sure you’re really attracting what you want. This means you need to create a specific goal for your life right now – and yes, the details do matter.
Visualizing Your Success
The first thing you need to do is to determine how your life is going to be when you have achieved your goals. Sit down and really visualize this life in your mind, down to the clothes you are wearing and the way you feel. Whenever you begin to feel like you are stumbling on the path to your success, you can come back to this picture in your head and begin to remind yourself what you will achieve if you simply stay on course.
A Clear Destination
Simply losing weight is simple for all of us. We don’t need a lot of motivation besides a pair of jeans that has become too tight. But when we want to lose weight AND keep it off, we need to make sure we are being clear about the goals we want to meet. This means coming up with a specific number of pounds you want to lose, as well as a deadline by which you want to lose these pounds. That way, you can measure your success as you go along, helping to assess your progress and make changes in your plans if things aren’t going as planned.
Just as you can’t go on a trip to a new place without a map, you need to start your success with a clear and specific plan. While you may not adhere to every single detail that you put into this plan, it helps to create structure for your progress so that you know you’re going to arrive at that precious destination.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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iMy wife has a great phrase that is relevant here – ‘people get what they settle for’.
Being specific is important. Non specific goals risk being semi-satisfied by results which knd of fit with what was generally intended. In order to be serious about a particular objective, it is necessary to know exactly where I want to go. Only then can I tell if I have reached that goal or not, and if not then I know to keep working at it.
Being specific requires a bit of thinking, and thinking can be hard work. But unless I take the time to really assess what I want and be sure about it, it will be much harder to stay motivated to achieve that goal. And even if I make a start on a non-specific goal, it is much harder to keep myself accountable. When something isn’t clearly measurable it is easy to drift off and to not worry about achieving it.
In short, by not setting specific goals, we immediately settle for less than we otherwise could be.
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Oh yes. The devil is in the detail. After many years in business I can vouch for that. Too mmany times I have seen so-called managers come up with some bright idea and launch into it without having given much thought to contingency planning. As for the paperwork required by law, they often took a caviliere attitude. Some of them managed to pull it off but others came a gutszer.
Yes my friends, the devil is most certainly in the detail.
Decades ago, I visualized myself surrounded by money. A year or so later that vision came true. But I was the treasurer of a social club and I was counting the club’s money. I guess I wasn’t specific enough.
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That’s amazing Wal. l guess with a little more focus the vision that you have will be realized.
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Hi Sean,
I use visualization all the time and I really think that the more realistic I can make the imagery, the more effective it is. I think the more detailed I make the vision, the more realistic the feelings and emotions are, the more tangible it becomes.
It sounds to me, Jazz, that you are fine-tuning your technique very nicely
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Hi Sean,
This is a cool way to look at your motivations. I you can visualize yourself at the end result instead of the problems you may face on the way it seems that you would have an inspired motivation to get to your goal. Thanks for the tip : )
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