Goal Setting
Module 1: Understand Your Goal

Welcome to The Ultimate Goal Setting Guide.

This six module course is designed to help you achieve what you really desire and get what you really want out of life.

Have you ever wondered how some people always seem to achieve every one of their fantastic goals, while others make do with half-hearted attempts? Want to be one of the lucky people? Well now you can, because guess what, it has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with you.

All that’s required is energy, passion and self-belief.

What you will achieve

Each week we’ll be covering a different topic to help you develop the focus, clarity and awareness to make your dreams come true. It will help you enjoy setting goals and enable you to get the results you know you deserve.

Recommendation

While all the material in this course is available to you right now, I strongly suggest that you complete each of the modules in order.

Each module includes a number of exercises (“Actions of the week”) that require you to do some work! You will get most benefit from the course by taking your time and completing all the excersices before moving forward to the next module.

Ready? Steady? Let’s go!

Part One

This course will show you once and for all how to set goals and get the results you deserve. And what better place to begin than with the all-important step of understanding your Goal.

This is not just about knowing what your Goal is, but what it means to you.

  • Have you considered what it means to have that Goal, to make it truly happen?
  • Who will you be, how will you feel when you’ve achieved your Goal?
  • Where will you be, what will you be saying to yourself and what will others be saying to you?

Visualising your successful future is an important part of understanding and getting crystal clear about your Goal.

Make Your Own Luck

Ever wondered why some people always achieve their goals and other people never quite make it? Are they just lucky? No – they simply appear to be because they generate their own luck, just as you will generate yours.

Have a truly exciting vision and understanding of your Goal so that you know every detail of it. When you have a dream that you are totally passionate about, you create an emotional impact which will generate incredible enthusiasm and energy which allows you to creatively plan and realise your Goal.

For example, if you want to spend Christmas meditating on a mountain in Nepal, then:

  • Which mountain and which position?
  • What will you be wearing, what time of day will it be?

Successful businessmen know this visualisation can reap dividends – Ray Croc, who founded the fast food burger chain McDonald’s, said he saw in his mind hundreds of restaurants in all corners of the land.

Your Goal might seem much simpler in comparison, perhaps to spend more time playing with your children. Or it could be a life change such as moving house or changing career. Whatever your goal, however complicated, difficult or impossible it seems now, remember this – simplicity comes with knowing what it’s all about.

Once you know exactly what you want, you can begin to work on making it a certainty.

Part Two

Is it Really Your Goal?

Take a few moments to write down your Goal so that you know exactly what it is.

The No.1 reason for goal failure is that people have ‘should’ and ‘borrowed’ goals. For example, does ‘everyone says I should save up for a mortgage‘, actually mean ‘I want to buy a house‘, or that you just feel you should have that goal. When you mean  ‘I want to meet a partner‘, do you instead say ‘I should lose weight and get fit‘?

The truth is that ‘should’ and ‘borrowed’ goals come from other people, not your true authentic self. This means that because your goal does not fit in with your values it has no real energy or driving passion.

If someone tells you that you should be doing something, you’ll probably feel threatened, rather than motivated. And if you do try to make it happen you’ll soon lose heart and not see it through because it’s a ‘should’ goal.

So, stop and check, is it really your Goal? Does it come from who you really are right now?

If you are overweight and have been trying to lose weight for years, chances are there is something else that would be a more authentic goal, like raising your confidence and your self-esteem. Once you’ve done that, getting the body that matches the fabulous new you might not be so hard after all.

Does your Goal support and compliment your core life values? If the answer is yes, congratulations! You are now on your way to setting achievable goals. If it’s not, cross out your Goal, and ask yourself, is there something else that is a true Goal for me right now, which will really make me happy, even if it seems impossible?

Part Three

Write it down!

Now that you know what your goal is, what about knowing when you’ve got it?

One Sunday afternoon, my neighbour’s young son was playing football in the garden, and he scored a goal. Amongst the cheers, I asked him, ‘How do you know you’ve scored a goal?’ he joyously replied ‘When the ball hits the back of the net, of course!’

He’s absolutely right because he is describing an end result. Something which gives tangible evidence that tells you the Goal has been achieved.

Now that you understand your goal, take a few moments to understand what your end result is. If your Goal is to move house, think about which area, which road. If your goal is to lose weight, what size will you be wearing? Are you ready to score that Goal? Good! Now you’re ready to go to the thought and actions for the week.

Action!

Actions of the Week

1. On a piece of paper, write down your Goal

Write it in terms that are really inspiring to you. For example, ‘I want my own home’, could become, ‘I want my own home which is a place decorated in white with wooden floors where I can have peace and tranquility and entertain my family and friends

2. Now make a list of 5 reasons why you know this goal is a true Goal

3. Make a list of 5 ways in which your life will be better when you’ve achieved your Goal

4. Make a Goal Card

Write down your Goal on a small piece of card and carry it around with you in your wallet or diary. This is your ‘Goal Card’. Keep it safe, you’ll be writing on the back of the card in Week Four.

5. Dream a little

Look out for and collect magazine cuttings, pictures, words and objects which inspire you to achieve your goal. Get a pretty box or set aside a drawer and start saving these, you’ll need them later on in this course.

Do all these actions before moving on, they will prepare you for Week 2, when you will be preparing to receive and finding out about ‘ART’.