Identify the Resources you Need to Succeed

What are the skill sets you possess, that you believe can contribute towards reaching your goals?

Take a long hard look at yourself and see what characteristics or skills you possess, which will contribute to your sustained success.  This self-audit will help you assess where you are regarding your current skill set. It will also highlight any shortcomings that you may have and allow you to take action to remedy them.

This new awareness will also program your brain to start looking for what you need. Amazingly exactly that will start showing up.  The more clarity you can create around your goals and what you need to support you to achieve your goals, the easier it is for your brain to filter the specific bits of information you need, out of the billions of bits of information you don’t require. The greater the degree of clarity you create in all areas surrounding your goals, the more powerful the assistance from the universe will be too.

Identify Resources in your Environment, Which will support You

Look in your immediate circle of influence and identify the people, who you already know who could possibly help you to achieve your goals. Get clarity on exactly how you would like them to assist you on your success journey.

Action Idea: Know exactly what support you need and then approach them with a clear request for assistance. Ask them if they would be willing to offer the scope and type of assistance you require. More often than not people will be willing to mentor and support you. The secret to make this work for you is not to have only one way expectations. You must find ways to build mutually beneficial relationships with the people, you know can support you.

Look beyond your Immediate Sphere of Influence

Once you have discovered the people in your immediate circle, who you can build mutually beneficial relationships with. Look outside your immediate circle of influence and try to identify any other people, who you will approach or contact to help you with your goals. It is really important that you are clear on what type of assistance you require. It is unlikely that anyone will offer their assistance, if you are vague about what you require or what your expectations from them are. You must be clear about the exact contribution you expect and the input you require from them. Be very specific about the time or other commitments you would need, from them. Try to always see ways of offering something in return to them. One way relationships are seldom sustainable. Whenever there is fair exchange, relationships are not only sustainable, but there are winners on both sides.

Identify Character Traits in People, Which will Support you

Once you have completed this exercise, where you have found people around you, who can support you. Really open your mind. Try to identify personality or character traits or characteristics in other successful people, who you feel will significantly contribute to your future achievements.  This exercise will program your mind to unconsciously begin looking around for the right people to help you to succeed. You can never succeed in isolation; you need the support of mentors, coaches and other people, who can support you. Success is a journey, which is far easier to travel, when you have the support of people, who can help and support you.

Author: Andrew Horton Best Business Speakers

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

Create a very specific order and send it to the Universe for Delivery

Your goals must be very specific and detailed, vivid detail will act as a blueprint for the universe and allow for delivery of your specific dream. Vague goals will only deliver vague results and will hold you from living in the magic of life. All goals must carefully detail how much you want and by when.

When you time define your goals you give yourself something to aim for, there is an end in sight. As you know when you have a deadline you become more motivated and commit more energy to any project. Your goals are no different. A clearly defined finishing point allows you to put measurement criterion in place, to monitor your progress on a regular basis. Whatever gets measured gets done.

For example: If you decide to loose 12 kg between January and December. Your goal is very easy to break back into monthly and even weekly targets. You would need to loose 1 Kg a month and 250 g a week. If after a week you measure your progress and you find that you have not met your target. You can explore the actions you are taking and see if they are aligned with the outcome you want to achieve or whether they need to be modified or not.

When you review your progress on a regular basis, you are able to see if the actions you are taking are delivering the desired results. If you fail to review your progress on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis, it is very likely that you will get to the end of the year and not have achieved your goals.

When the Apollo Space Craft took off from Cape Canaveral and it was only one degree off course, it would have missed the moon by 300 000 miles. To ensure that this did not happen, the engineers controlling the flight would continually review the progress and make small in flight corrections. If they did not do this they would never have reached the moon.

As one of the Best Business Speakers in South Africa I will show you that the same is true for your goals, you need to constantly look at the actions you are taking, if they are delivering the desired results then keep doing them. If they are not then you must re-assess your action plan and introduce new actions that will deliver the desired results. The longer you wait before you measure and review your progress the more likely you are to be off track.

By setting very specific goals you also program your Reticular Activating System or (RAS) to search for any opportunities that will help you realize your goals. Your (RAS) is your own internal Google search engine, it filters all the information that bombards your brain and only allows the information that you have programmed it to look for, to reach your conscious brain.

Try to identify one goal that will boost you to the next level. This one single change in your career, business or relationship or lifestyle would catapult you toward living your dream life. Is it enjoying a promotion, meeting a certain sales target, finding a new job, expanding your business, finding the perfect partner, winning an award, getting further education or something else that will completely change your life for the better.

When you learn to prioritise and focus your energy on a maximum of three goals at a time you are able to give each goal enough time and energy to consistently make progress. When you are constantly able to make progress, you remain inspired and you want to keep taking the positive steps that are delivering results. On the other hand if you have too many goals you are trying to achieve at once, you only make small positive steps towards achieving each goal and you quickly become de-motivated.

If you shine a torch on a piece of paper you are obviously unable to start a fire, however if you take a magnifying glass and you focus the rays of the sun on the same piece of paper, you are able to focus the light enough, so that it will start a fire. If you focus the light even further and you put it through a laser, you are able to take the same light and cut steel.

The same is true for your goals, the more you focus your energy the greater the results you will enjoy and the bigger and better the outcomes you will enjoy.