The Seven Step Formula for Goal Setting (3)
Step Six: Once you have determined your goal, developed your plan, and
identified your major obstacle, immediately take action of some kind toward the achievement of your goal. Step out in faith. Do the first thing that comes o mind. But do something immediately to start the process of goal attainment moving forward.
Step Seven: Do something [...]
The Seven Step Formula for Goal Setting (2)
In organizing by priorities, you determine the most important things that you can possibly do on your list to achieve your goal. The 80/20 Rule applies. 20% of the things that you do will account for 80% of your results. If you do not set clear priorities, you will “major in minors” and spend much [...]
The Seven Step Formula for Goal Setting (1)
There are many formulas and recipes for goal setting. As a rule, “Any plan is better than no plan at all.” Here is one of the best and most effective goal setting plans or formulas you will ever learn:
Step One: Decide exactly what you want in a specific area and write it down
clearly, in detail. [...]
Think About Your Goals
Goal-orientation is the second quality or way of thinking practiced by optimists and all successful people. In future-orientation, you develop a clear, ideal image of what you want to accomplish sometime in the future. With goal-orientation, youcrystallize that image into specific, measurable, detailed goals and objectives that you will need to accomplish to achieve that [...]
The Orientations of High Performance
Optimistic people think very differently than pessimistic people. They develop a series of “orientations” or general tendencies of thinking that separate them from the average person. These orientations soon become habitual ways of thinking and acting that propel them forward toward the success and happiness they desire. Like all habits, these habitual ways of thinking [...]
Developing a Hardy Personality
There is a relatively new field of medicine called “psychoneuroimmunology.”
Research in this area has concluded that the quality of your thinking has anenormous impacPsychologists have now developed a profile of what they call the “hardy personality.” This is the man or woman who seems to respond positively and effectively to adversity and setbacks. He or [...]
The Source of Personal Power (2)
We said earlier that the greatest discovery, and the summary statement of
psychology, religion and philosophy is, “You become what you think about most of the time.”
What is it that optimists think about most of the time? In its simplest terms,
optimists think about what they want and how to get it, most of the time. They [...]
The Source of Personal Power (1)
There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem. The more you discipline yourself to behave in the manner that you have decided, the more you like and respect yourself. The more positive and confident you will feel. The stronger and more in charge of your life and situation you become.
Every act of self-discipline strengthens [...]
The Habits You Need to Succeed
“Self command is not only itself a great virtue, but from it all the other virtues seem to derive their principle luster.” (Adam Smith)
The most important habit you can develop for success, achievement and happiness is the habit of self-discipline. Perhaps the best definition of self-discipline comes from Elbert Hubbard, “Self-discipline is the ability to [...]
Being and Becoming
You are unique in the entire world. There never has been, nor will there ever be, anyone just like you. And what makes you different and special is your mind. It is you ability to think, to decide and to act.
The sum total of your thinking and experiences in your past is contained in your [...]
