Out With the Old, In With the New

2012 is about to arrive and I’d like to wish all my readers a happy new year, full of success, love, health, wealth and joy.

May this year bring you all the best and the fulfilment of your dreams!

Did you know that 95% of the people who set New Year’s resolutions never follow through? The reason is that most people don’t understand the goal setting process and never take the first steps.

I am delighted to provide for you here a process that will walk you through how to get started and create the momentum that will drive you to follow through. By doing it, you will gain clarity about where you’ve been, where you are now, and where you want to go. It will also help you create a simple plan to set up your new year so that it truly compels, excites, and drives you.

Goal Planning Workbook

Step 1: State Your Goal

Write your specific goal statement here, making sure that you state it in the present tense as if you have already achieved that goal. This statement should be concise and to the point.

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Step 2: Emotionalize Your Goal

Charge your goal with powerful emotional energy by describing what you will see, hear and feel upon the completion of your goal. This is known as your .end-state..

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Step 3: Sell Your Goal to Yourself

Why do you want to achieve this goal? List all the great reasons why you want to achieve this goal for yourself. This list should be a list of key benefits that will improve your life when your goal is completed.

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Step 4: List The Required Resources For Your Goal

Make a list of all the required resources that are necessary for achieving your goal. These resources will need to be gathered before your goal can be realized.

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Step 5: List the Required Knowledge & Skills For Your Goal

Write down all the required knowledge or skills that you will need to acquire in order for you to achieve this goal.

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Step 6: List Any Possible Barriers and Solutions For Your Goal

There will always be barriers, challenges and roadblocks in the way of achieving your goal. You can avoid untimely setbacks by anticipating those challenges and having a possible solution already on hand.

Step 7: List The Role-Models For Your Goal

The blueprints for your goal success are out there because chances are very high that someone has already done what you want to do, or has done something very similar to what you want to do. You can leverage their mistakes and experiences to propel you towards your goal faster than you ever thought possible by identifying and studying your goal role models.

Who has already done what I want to do?

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What core values did they have that kept them focused on their goal?

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What consistent actions or habits did they do on a regular basis that made it possible for them to realize their goal?

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What do I need to start doing or thinking in order to be more like them?

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Step 8: List Your Milestones

Milestones are mini-goals. within your major goal. Milestones serve as a way of breaking down your goal into pieces that are not too difficult to handle. Milestones make your goal manageable and they give you motivation to keep on going after you complete a milestone.

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Step 9: List The Action Steps For Your Goal

A goal is comprised of many small action steps. Use this section to brainstorm your goal and create a list of all the action steps necessary to achieve your goal. The order is not necessary at this point.

Step 10: List Your First Five Action Steps

By writing down the first five action steps towards your goal, you give yourself some direction towards your goal and overcome the initial resistance of getting started. Commit yourself towards taking these five action steps, regardless if you.re unsure they are in the right direction. You can always re-evaluate and re-orient yourself afterwards.

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Step 11: How Will You Celebrate Your Goal?

Every goal requires a reward at the completion of it for all the hard work you put into it. Create a list of possible ways you will reward and celebrate your new success. The reward that you give yourself should make the difficulty of the goal and it should be realistic.

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Step 12: List Your Accountability Partners

Accountability partners are the special coaches that you have that will make sure that you are pushing yourself towards your goal. These individuals need to be chosen carefully

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Step 13: Ten Year Letter

Directions: Imagine it is ten years into the future and everything that you have planned in your life for those ten years has gone according to plan. You are writing a letter to a friend describing the milestones and achievements in your life during those ten years. Please be as specific as possible in regards to the goals, accomplishments, awards, relationships and events that took place in your life during those ten years.

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Step 14: Commit Yourself 100% To Your Goal

This is perhaps the most important part of the goal-achievement process. You MUST commit 100% of yourself towards the fulfilment of this goal. You have to be willing to burn all the bridges behind you and keep moving forward regardless of anything that happens along the way. This is a binding commitment towards the commitment that you are giving yourself and this goal. DO NOT SIGN THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% COMMITTED! Remember, this is a promise to yourself, so make it a meaningful one.

By signing this contract, I am agreeing to give myself and my goal 100% of my commitment, dedication and heart and I will see this goal through to its completion.

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Regardless of short-term ups and downs in your life this is a wonderful time to be alive. You have in front of you unlimited opportunities to achieve more than ever before.,

Now its time for you to be working on being, having, and achieving more and more of the things you really want. Clear goals enable you to release your full potential for personal and professional success. Goals enable you to overcome any obstacle and to make your future achievement unlimited.

Take time to go through this goal setting process, you will find it will power up your life.

Have a happy and successful 2012!

Larry

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