How I Achieve My Goals
It's the simplest thing in the world.
Take a piece of paper and a pen.
Write down the wildest dream of wealth you've ever had.
Is it living in a massive mansion? Driving a fleet of European luxury autos?
Powering a giant cigarette boat through the smooth, sparkling waters of the Caribbean?
Or helping your family out of difficulty? Donating to your local church to get them a new building? Saving a third world village from disease by giving them water?
Or all of these? So...
- On your piece of paper, write down exactly what you want in emotional words.
- Feel your goals in your imagination.
- Review them daily.
I can tell you from delightful experience that your mind will bring you every single one of the items you put on that sheet.
Today I'm going to share one of my goals with you, using my special system that works without fail.
Now, I have 'sensible goals' that I achieve on a regular basis. For example, I give a lot of money away to good causes.
But this goal today is for me. And it is slightly crazy because it seems way out of reach right now.
As you know from my newsletters over the years, I'm a car guy. Thanks to lotto I own a nice selection of 4 high-end cars, including a glossy black sports car... a Mercedes SL600 - the v12 bi-turbo version, in the new shape.
(If you're not a car guy reading this, substitute your own item in place of mine).
It's the most desirable vehicle I've ever wanted.
But we car guys are never satisfied.
Now I want to add another to my stable... the Mercedes SLR, a milllion-dollar supercar.
And as I did with my other cars, here's how I will achieve it.
First, I write my goal down. A long description, detailing everything I want it to be.
Then I put reminders of the SLR everywhere:
- - I have a picture of it as a screensaver on each of my 5 computer screens.
- - I have a scale model of it sitting on my desk.
- - I found some pictures of the SLR at a motor show I attended in England 4 years back (that's when the dream began), and placed them in an separate file to look at daily.
- - On the net I found an owner who appears to be less wealthy than me, yet owns one. (That's important because it makes the goal appear achievable by seeing that others in a 'worse' position can do it).
Then I make the SLR as real as possible using all the senses of sight and sound.
I found a lot of YouTube videos on this beast... of it racing, being admired, or simply moving around exotic city streets.
Those videos helped make it real. I heard the sound of my goal, the deep burble of the powerful V8, the whine of the supercharger, the rich clunk of the gullwing doors as they closed.
Are you starting to understand how a goal is set?
Not by wishing fruitlessly - as we all do when we want a large sum of money. That's like wishing for the Powerball jackpot each week without taking any action on it.
But through a real, tangible, as-if-it-were-already-mine kind of way.
Now, notice 2 things about this goal setting that I haven't told you about...
1. There is no deadline.
2. There is no dollar amount.
That's intentional.
Because it's a weird fact of life about goal setting.
If you challenge the mind in a moderate way, it will respond.
But if your goals seem too big, then the mind starts to react, to withdraw. "Oh no," your subconscious mind says to you: "You can't possibly afford this."
"You are not worthy of such a dream. It simply won't work for you. You are too short/fat/messy/poor/undisciplined."
The mind will rebel when the date is set in concrete and the price is established. That's because it is being challenged with reality when the goal should still be a dream.
Your mind reacts like this because it knows, deep down inside, you haven't yet got to the stage when you think you can achieve your goals.
So it's important NOT to put a date or price on your ambition.
You need adjustment time.
Give it enough time, and the mind works out the "how" automatically for you. That time extension gives the mind free range to establish its own boundaries.
So I haven't put a date on possessing my 5.5 liter SLR.
I know - like my other cars and good fortune, it will come to me when still I have time left to enjoy it.
And likewise I haven't put a price on it either. Because while I could pay a milllion bucks for one, they are also available for as little as US$200,000.
So I'm leaving it open. The delivery date and price will both come to me at the right time.
I've followed these goal setting guidelines for practically everything I've owned.
And it is infallible.
In fact, one of the biggest problems I face is that I've run out of goals. I have achieved everything I ever wanted. More on how I overcame that in later posts.
But the craziest thing of all about goal setting seems to be the least effective method to most people who hear about it... that of writing your goal down.
Just a few scribbles on a sheet of paper, you say. How can that help me?
Strange but true, when you do it, the act of writing forms a commitment. It confirms your goal. And for that reason, the reality of your goal makes your mind work on it.
Notice I'm not talking about winning lotto.
Because winning the lottery is sometimes a byproduct of your goal setting.
Form your goals first, and they will then be achieved for you in different ways.
It may be through lotto.
-But it could also be someone leaving you money in a will.
-It could also be a great once in a lifetime deal that you are able to grab.
-It could even be having a greater desire to achieve your goal - that keeps you playing lotto each week when you'd normally give up.
Whatever shape your goal comes in, leave the solution to work its own way out for you.
Try it.
It works like crazy.
One more thing...
Should you keep your goals to yourself? Or tell everyone?
I subscribe to the second idea... the more people who know what you want, the faster you'll get it. Like networking, or team play, shared and open goals are always achieved quicker than secret ones.
Do it!
Happy Winning!
Ken Silver
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