Setting Goals for the New Year

With the start of the new year a lot of people are thinking about new years resolutions, but instead why not set goals. There is more to the goal setting process and it helps to keep you focused. Why is focus so important? To answer that let’s take a look at a Lion, the king of beasts. Have you ever wondered how a lion trainer keeps a powerful Lion at bay with a chair and sometimes a whip?
 
Is it because the lion is trained, yes but what mechanism does he use to train the lion. Well here’s what happens. A Lion has such great focus it can only concentrate on one thing at a time, now he faces a situation where a chair with four legs is being pushed in front of him. He now has four things to try to concentrate on and with such great focus he simply cannot focus on all four legs of the chair so it keeps him from going forth.
 
That’s the same thing that happens to us when we try to focus on too many things it keeps us from going forth to do the things we need to do. That’s when we become paralyzed with procrastination and fear.
 
When you set goals you weed out the distractions and the obstacles that keep you from going forth. There are primarily eight elements to the goal setting process:
 
Number 1:
Your goals must be written and here’s why. Writing out your goals makes you 4 to 5 times more likely to get them done and it also helps you establish a road map from A to Z. Now here is the most important part about writing out goals , and please don’t take this point lightly.
 
Your written goals cause something to become activated within the subconscious mind that causes you to react and bring those things into existence. Your powerful subconscious mind will begin to maneuver you into the right places, to do the right things and meet the right people. On the surface it looks like you are casually going about your business taking care of remedial things, but that is not so.
 
Once the subconscious mind gets a hold of a goal that you truly believe it works day and night to make it a reality. The only requirement is that you truly believe it and it is backed with a burning desire.

Next week we will explore element number 2.