When I begin to work with a new client, the first thing they want to improve are their results! And this always requires slight adjustments in their behavior! That is why I always start with helping them articulate their habits, paradigms, limiting beliefs and goals. When a client starts to become aware of them, we always start to discuss whether these current beliefs and habits will take them to the goals and destinations they have for themselves. Our self Image is a cybernetic instrument that either liberates us or keeps us in bondage. If we see ourselves as a winner, we typically achieve winning results! If we see ourselves as a loser, we achieve losing results as well. So, the next time you look at yourself in the mirror, make sure you realize that you are God’s masterpiece! No one in the entire world is designed like you! You are made in His image and never forget that!
How to Set Smart Goals to Achieve Results
Today I want to talk about setting goals! I love this topic because no matter how many times I post about setting goals, I know people really don’t follow through and set personal and professional goals. It truly is the only way to go from where you are currently to where you want to go in the future. It is the way to break paradigms, change habits and begin to gain clarity in your life! When you can clarity, you gain energy and that positive energy attracts others with positive energy! Soon, your life changes as you are achieving your desired results and you live your life with OnPurpose! So, while goal setting is can be challenging, the secret is to set SMART goals. This is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely! And in the next post, I will share more on how to set SMART goals!
Five Reasons We MUST Set Goals!
As I work with clients, most tell me when I ask them if they have personal and professional goals set they tell me yes. But then I ask to see them and they tell me that they are in their mind and not written down on paper! So, the task at hand is always to write your goals on paper. Here are 5 reasons why we set goals and write them down on paper:
1. Your written goals are YOUR HEADLINES for the future.
2. Goals give us a tangible target as we move forward in life.
3. Goals tell your brain what to notice in the midst of a crowded thought life.
4. Goal setting is an essential tool for disciplining your mind to focus on what is lovely, excellent and worthy of praise.
5. Goal setting builds your character and disciplines you to say yes to the right things and no to the wrong things.
How to Improve Your Results…The Number One Issue
"It is all about the transformation"
During my work helping clients, I always tell them that the goal is to become the best version of themselves. And most clients shake their head and agree that must be the goal. But “how” is always the question. And I always come back with:”You have to change your thoughts, change your paradigms and change your habits”. To improve your results in life requires a good deal of heavy lifting because we have a built in “cybernetic” system that always wants to take us back to our existing and preexisting paradigms. Many of these paradigms were formed and given to us as children from our parents and have been handed down from one generation to the next. And many of these paradigms are no longer useful and/or prevent us from achieving real results in our lives! That is why it is so important to works towards breaking those old paradigms by reprogramming our life and primary thoughts. The first step in this process is realize and document what our primary thoughts and beliefs are and how we see the world. Then it is important to work with a coach to help us secure new thoughts and habits. Its all about TRANSFORMATION! And Transformation is an inside out process.
What Is Your Time Worth?
Last weekend I attended my 40th year class reunion. It was an amazing time we shared together! In many ways it was like time stood still and we were all transported back into time. But in reality it was 40 years ago! Where had the time gone??? As we talked, we all discussed what we were doing now and how fast life is passing us by! It was a great reminder to me to value the time I have left on this earth and to try to make an impact to help others! While I am not a gifted writer (As you already can see) I am trying to make each day count, each hour count, and each minute count. That has caused me to think about the future vision for my life, set goals and to make sure I completely understand my Value Proposition so that I can make every hour count. Here is a quick template to help you understand your Value Proposition and to make every hour count!
1. First, you talk about you! Whether you are an engineer, blogger, technician or podcaster! Let people know who you are and what your role is!
2. Second, tell people who you help (your Avatar). You really need to match your why to who your avatar is!
3. Third, tell people you Struggle, Journey and Solution
4. Fourth, finally talk about the transformation people get from your solution! Remember they are looking for help and your value needs to fight their need.
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How To Have More Influence and Implact in Life…
Like most people, I struggle with becoming more productive and impacting more people in the remaining years I have left! I want to share my experiences and what I have learned to make someone else’s life easier. I always feel better at the end of the day when I feel like I accomplished something worth while towards my goals. So becoming more productive is essential. I can remember a time in my life when I felt fully alive and very productive, and I can also remember a time in my life when I felt hopeless, unclear and non productive. Please believe me when I tell you that it takes far more energy to feel unproductive and unclear! So that is the entire reason for my blog. I am hoping to help those who feel unclear and want to improve their results. I call this Helping You Succeed, Life and Work! If you want to have more influence and impact on others, here is the one thing you must understand very clearly:
You must Discover Your Value that you have to share with the marketplace. You need to understand what you have that you can share with the world and that sets you apart from someone else! I call this your Value Proposition Statement! Here are questions to help you understand and create your message:
1. What keeps you up at night and fascinates you?
2. What books do you like to read?
3. What issues do the people around you struggles with that you find yourself always helping?
4. What is the one thing that you feel you want to share with them to help them grow?
5. What do people come to you for as far as advice, counseling, teaching or any other help regularly?
6. What is the one thing that you can see could help others around you if they knew about it and would transform their results?
7. If you don’t help these people, what is at stake for you? How will this impact your own life results?
How To Live Your Life…OnPurpose
When I think about conversations today, it reminds me that is so difficult today to be your own person because people, society, politics and money all try to pull us into a place where we are always longing for something or someone else. It is easy to fall into the trap of wanting more! More money, different job, better job, bigger house, better vacations and on and on it goes. but what effect does this have on us? It pulls us away from living each day in our own show and trying to be someone else and not concentrating on our own life and what we currently have today. So here are some simple steps to living your life and not wishing you were someone else:
1. BE THANKFUL! Focus on what you have and try to express gratitude daily for what God has given you. Like your health, your family, your ability to live in this great country.
2. BE PURPOSEFUL! Try to make at least one person happy each day. Go the extra mile to add value to the people around you. That takes the focus off of you and puts it on someone else.
3. BE POSITIVE! Positive people tend to be happier people and happier people tend to be living their life as the main event and not a side show!
4. BE GENEROUS! When you are FREE from things and stuff, you tend to be more generous and giving. This is where true meaning and happiness exists.
5. BE HOPEFUL! Don’t be a Debbie Downer, be hopeful and encourage others to dream big! Don’t envy others. Develop a plan and execute that plan to achieve more.
Double your Productivity???But How?
We have been talking a lot about setting goals, improving our results and changing and breaking old paradigms down. But now its time to execute and that is all about how productive we become. I like to call this concept “YOU SQUARED”. Its about maximizing your productivity with simple steps that improve your results. Lets get started.
First you need to set aside time during the day when you are in peak performance mentally and physically. For me that is from 6:30am to about 2pm. After 2pm, I tend to fade off a bit and then move to tasks that require less concentration. But I try to make sure that I am at the very least putting 5 hours of productive time to my revenue producing activities. So define what yours are and then think about focusing your time on those.
Second, you must eliminate or minimize distractions. For me distractions are answering emails, answering phone calls, searching on facebook, instagram or whatever social media platforms you are using. For me these are TOTAL TIME KILLERS and I can literally waste hours of productive time doing these non productive tasks.
Third, remember to just GET STARTED in whatever goal or project you are desiring to complete. Getting started is the single biggest challenge to overcome because it takes inertia to start something and to bring it to life.
Fourth, you will be able to FEEL the difference between an unproductive day and a productive day. Believe me, a productive day feels much better! Just start trying to have as many productive hours, then days then weeks. After a month or so, you now have a set of new habits that will carry you through.
Finally, YOU SQUARED, is a combination of awareness, setting goals, executing goals, improving personal productivity, and gaining mental clarity and focus in life. Remember, worry fear and angry all work against YOU SQUARED!