Four Powerful Strategies to help achieve your Goals

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Four Powerful Strategies to help achieve your Goals Copyright © 2006

We all have wishes. Wishes are goals, but goals with a little snap, crackle, and pop. Goals provide the process that can take you where you want to go, but too often they don't provide the inspiration to get you there. Wishes are different. They have impact - like being struck by lightning instead of by a lightning bug. They let you dream. They let you soar. They let you tap into a source of limitless possibility and boundless energy that gives you the power to accomplish what you might otherwise never have imagined. How we achieve our goals, are simplified by doing the following:

Intensify Desire- Desire is the first step of goal achievement and the foundation. Have you set personal or business goals and failed to achieve them? Here is a crucial question: WHY? The answer is simple; because we did not have a strong enough desire. Some may argue with that. But I did have a strong desire and still I didn't get there.

How do you identify intense desire, passion? It's what keeps people working all hours, up early, late to bed. The desire dominates conversation, thinking, actions. Take a moment to think about the goals you've set for yourself. How committed are you to achieving these goals? Under what conditions would you give up? What if you could significantly increase your desire to achieve these goals? What if you wanted them so badly that you knew with absolute certainty that you would absolutely, positively never ever give up?

When you are truly 100% committed to reaching your goals, you move from hoping to knowing. If you want something badly enough, then quitting is simply not an option. You either find a way or make one. You pay the price, whatever it takes. By creating intense desire you can realize the impossible dream. Develop a sincere desire to achieve the goal. A wish or daydream has no substance; it is vague, unformed, and unsupported by action. Desire puts action into your plan.

Strong desire is success power. How to Intensify Your Desire, how then can we intensify desire? Here are four steps you can take to cultivate burning desire to achieve any goal you set for yourself:

1. List The Benefits. Write down the benefits of achieving your goal. What is in it for me? Identify exactly "Why" you want to achieve this goal. List all the ways how will you benefit personally. Why not do this exercise today with one of your goals. Have you set a goal for your business to make $X this month? Making money for the sake of it after a while becomes mundane. There has to be something more. Make a list of all the benefits from using that money. What difference will it make to your family, your lifestyle, your enjoyment of life, your business growth? What if one of your goals is to develop a skill or awaken a dormant talent or ability? Write down a huge list of the benefits this will bring you and your loved ones, or your business. The more you write, the more details your mind conjures up, the greater the intensity of desire becomes. Once the list gets past 20 or 30 benefits your goal becomes unstoppable.

2. Burn The Ships. If your goals are really important enough to you, then you can start by burning the proverbial ships, such that you have no choice but to press on. For instance, if you want to launch your own business, you can begin by making the commitment to quitting your job. Write a letter of resignation, put it in a stamped envelope addressed to your boss, and give it to a trusted friend with firm instructions to mail the letter if you haven't quit your job by a certain date. If you don't burn those ships, you are sending the message to your subconscious mind that it's ok to quit. And when the going gets tough, as it inevitably does for any worthwhile goal, you will quit. If you really want to achieve your goals, then you've got to burn those ships to the ground, and scatter the ashes.

3. Feed Your Mind with Excellent Information. Inspirational books and audio programs are one of the best fuel sources for cultivating desire. If you want to quit smoking, read a dozen books written by ex-smokers on how to quit the habit. If you want to start a business, then start devouring business books. Go to seminars on occasion. It is advised that you feed your mind with some form of motivational material, books, articles, audio programs for at least 15 minutes a day. This will continually recharge your batteries and keep your desire impenetrably strong.

4. Use Mental Programming. This is a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique that will help you associate strong positive emotions to whatever goal you're working to achieve. Find some music that really energizes and inspires you. Put on your headphones and listen to it for 15 to 20 minutes, and as you do this, form a clear mental picture of yourself having already achieved the results you want. Make your imagery big, bright, vivid, colorful, three-dimensional, panoramic, and animated. Picture the scene as if looking through your own eyes. This will help you form a neuro-association between the positive emotions elicited by the music and the goal you want to achieve, thus strengthening your desire. This is a great way to begin each day, and you can even do it while lying in bed when you first awaken if you set things up the night before. You should cycle the music periodically, since the emotional charge you get will tend to diminish if you listen to the same songs each time.

If you apply these four strategies, you'll add so much fuel to your desire that the fire will never burn out. You'll move towards your goals like a guided missile to its target, and you'll enjoy the process because you'll be so focused on the positive rewards instead of the difficulty of the tasks. If you get enough positive energy flowing into you, you'll soon have positive results flowing out of you. Desire is the great motivation. The powerful force that drives you toward your goals.

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