I love this picture of Napoleon Hill’s mastermind partners which included Ford, Edison, Firestone and Hoover. I am currently in 3 separate masterminds that are helping me build my platform again in this digital world and they have truly changed my perspective on how to grow my business while helping others succeed both personally and professionally. Stay tuned for my launch.
Yesterday’s post was titled “Why We Set Goals” and today’s post is “How Do We Set Goals”. Over the years, I have struggled to find a method that truly works effectively for me. Perhaps you are like me in this regard. I have great intentions, but find it difficult to spend the time to write down my goals in a format that works. So, in this post i wish to share with you what works for me. If you have another style that works for you, that is great as well. Often times I struggle with mental clarity on what to write and clarity of what to accomplish. I can see the BIG PICTURE, but breaking it down into individual steps becomes difficult. So, I produce a one page yearly sheet that just has 3-5 major end results that I want accomplished. My categories are Finance, Health, Spirituality, Family. Within those 4 categories, I just write simple sentences where I would like to be. For example, I fix a figure of income for my company that i want to achieve. For health, I normally have targets, like weight, exercise, doctor visits etc. For spirituality I set targets for scripture reading, church attendance and growing in Christ. And that is how I do it. From those goals, I go to just steps needed to accomplish those goals. I just try to make it as simple as possible. Then, each week, I think about what I have accomplished towards those goals and if I achieve it, I check it off of my list. So, I try not to be too critical of myself because that only frustrates me. I think what is important is to revisit your goal sheets weekly and keep them close to you. I have them next to me at all times for easy access and review.
Keep in mind that when you start to see real progress towards these goals, it truly gives you energy and a sense of accomplishment! This energy builds on itself and before you know it, you have achieved your goal!
Dear Friends: I lost a friend that I met in 2008 when I attended Halftime Institute in Dallas Texas. He was the first person I met at the training and I shall never forget him. He lost his battle to last week. I encourage you to watch and learn, love and cry. You are in my thoughts and prayers Greg and I will see you someday in Heaven. RIP Greg.
One of the most important lessons to learn in life is that our results are often times the result of our paradigms, habits and our level of awareness. That is why it is so important to always look at life with an open mind and ready to learn something new. Try each day to do something new.
I am not much of a movie goer, but I can’t help myself when crossing the Atlantic and having 8 plus hours to pass the time away. Yesterday I returned home from a wonderful reunion of former colleagues. We get together once per year in a different country and celebrate our friendship and our lives together. With all the recent threats in London and around the world, of course, plenty of my friends warn me not to go! And sometimes, I of course, get anxious as well. But, always upon my return, I am thankful that I attended and feel the gratitude for such great friends and memories. On the return flight I watched 3 movies and my favorite was a movie named: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”. It was a great movie that I watched twice and it left me profoundly happy and was filled with wisdom how to live our lives and how to overcome anything! The movie was truly inspirational and marvelous how the writer captured the essence of life. I was inspired by this line in the movie from the owner of the hotel and he said that in India, they have a favorite expression: “In the end everything will be all right….So if its not all right, it must not be the end.”
I highly recommend this wonderful film with a great cast like Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. Its a great lesson for all ages and I will leave it to you to go see the movie!
Life can be very difficult at times. Sometimes difficulties can last for a days, months and even years. So, how do we get through those difficult times? How do we hold on when the storms of life want to take us down? The answer is PERSPECTIVE! The most important thing in life is to develop a proper and winning perspective in life and to let go of old habits and paradigms! It is important to have and hold a vision for your life that has meaning and purpose regardless of your current situation. This is achieved when you begin to develop an ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE. Life isn’t just what you see happening day to day. If you dwell on just the day to day aspects of life, difficulties and challenges can be overwhelming. When you begin to develop an ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE things begin to change. For those of us who are Christians, we know exactly where we are going and that perspective will give us the winning perspective to get through the difficult times in life!
