When To Start Your Goals

Well, Dax promised he’d be back ‘tomorrow’ and it’s been a week.

A family emergency got in the way and he was unable to get back to us and share some more of his goal achievement ’secrets’ but he’s finally back with another interesting and thought provoking message to help us achieve your goals faster.

Today he’s answering the most common question that his thousands of readers often ask about goal achievement and success.

“When Should I Begin?”

Believe it or not, it’s a really common question!

People are of the belief that there is some special ‘buildup’ they have to go through in order to achieve what they want or that they have to ‘prepare’ or ‘get ready’ or have all their ducks in a row before they can finally go after what they want.

They tell themselves they’ll start to pursue their goals…

…tomorrow
…next week
…next year
…when the kids get out of school
…when the kids go back to school
…when there is more time
…when things settle down
…when there are less bills
…when there is more money
…when the moment it right

And all the while they delay the pursuit of those things that would make them happiest because of… something. Some ‘reason’ for why they couldn’t possibly go after their goals right here, right now.

So here’s Dax’s answer.

(I think you know it already) : )

Start right here, right now with whatever resources you have at your disposal to build the life that you most dream about having.

You see, you can carry on dreaming about the things you want or you can do something about them.

You can let the daily routine of your current life run the show or you can make the changes you want to see.

You can keep putting off and delaying your happiness until ’someday’ or you can begin doing the things you know you are capable of doing TODAY!

The choice is yours.

You have the power to choose.

You see, it’s all too easy to fall into the same old routine of saying to yourself ’someday I’ll do it but right now I just have too much on my plate’.The truth is, you will ALWAYS have tons of things to do, tons of people to see, tons of places to go, chores to be done and bills to be paid.

That’s life for us all, right?

But if you don’t at least START building the life of your dreams, regardless of how busy, tired, stressed, broke you are then you stand zero chance of ever getting there don’t you?

So start today my friends.

Start today.

You don’t have to do much. You don’t have to change the world in an afternoon. Just change one thing. Do one thing different to how you did it yesterday and you’ve begun to move your life on a different course. This is the REAL ’secret’ of goal achievement.

It’s taking action.

But you knew this already, right? : )

Tim
MyMagicHundred

P.S - What one action are you committed to taking TODAY? Write it in the comments area… I dare ya!

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Black Run Goal Achievement Success

One of my goals at the beginning of the year set in my Magic Hundred was to snowboard down a black run.

I went to Les Deux Alpes a few weeks ago and whilst I did OK on the snowboard, I was certainly not confident enough to go down a black run.

However last weekend, my wife and I took a sneaky weekend away to Switzerland. Murren was the resort, in the same region as the Eiger mountain. On Sunday we took the cable car to the top of the mountain at over 3000 meters and had lunch in the restuarant on the top.

If you’ve ever seen the James Bond film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” it featured a mountain top hide out. This is where the resturant is. The restuarant is quite special as the floor revolves andyou get a full 360 degree panoramic view over the period of about 45 minutes.

Anyway, there is a Black run from the restuarant, so instead of taking the lift back down the mountain, I jumped on the snowboard and edged my way down the mountain.

Not the most graceful of descents, but managed some decent turns and got down without falling.

Another goal checked off my Magic Hundred list.

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What The Secret Didn’t Tell You

Have you seen the movie The Secret?

If you have you’ll know that it practically became the goal-achievement ‘bible’ overnight due to it’s very simple, yet very powerful message about how you can be, do and have practically anything in life that you want as long as you do one or two key things.

They are:

1. Think about what you want on a regular basis
2. Think about it positively

That was it really. That was the ’secret’ of The Secret!

Now, I’m not knocking this at all, far from it. First off, most people (myself included) can be really unfocused and unclear about what they want and spending some time focusing can be really beneficial, right?

And thinking positive, well, that’s just obvious isn’t it? After all, going through life with a dark cloud over your head is not really going to help you feel good about even STARTING your goals, let alone achieving them is it?

So I’ve no real problems with the advice that The Secret shares, it makes sense and, truth be told, thousands of people have already gone on to achieve great things as a result of following this simple advice, but again, there are a lot of people who couldn’t seem to make it work for them and are now dismissive of the who goal achievement ‘thing’.

Maybe you’re one of them?

I certainly used to be.

I tried thinking positive and holding my goals in my thoughts but still, the bills piled up and the same old hassles that were always in my life before were still there so I did what most people would do. I gave up the whole goal-setting thing as a waste of time.

That is until I came across (yet another) goal achievement program that was saying some things that were very different to what I’d been hearing from the thoughts become things crowd.

In fact, this program said that thoughts DON’T become things, but rather, they could become things, but not necessarily.

It jokingly explained that if thoughts really did automatically become things
then most teenage boys would materialise pretty young girls into their bedrooms. After all, this is what’s on their minds most of the time, right? : )

Sounds funny, I know, but it struck a chord. After all, if thinking clearly of something that’s important to you, holding it in your mind and thinking about it a lot works to bring goals to life, then it should work, right?

And as to thinking positive…

I’d always been told that thinking positive was a critical step to making your goals come to life, but again in this program I was told that this simply wasn’t true. After all, if being positive made your goals come to life you should be able to sit in the middle of a busy road, smile and say ‘I won’t get hit, I won’t get hit, I won’t get hit” and sure enough, all the trucks will completely miss you.

Not a strategy that I think I’d like to try : )

It all makes sense doesn’t it?

The idea that you can’t just put on a happy face, think about your goals and have them come to life?

I think so anyway : )

So what’s the real ’secret’ to goal achievement?

Well, I guess it’s simply that there isn’t one. Not as in one hidden thing that once exposed will bring your goals to life. It’s more a case of having a strategy that is proven to work rather than relying on hope or wishful thinking.

What’s the strategy?

It’s coming… I promise!

In fact, I’ve persuaded Dax Moy, author of The MAGIC Hundred to spill the beans right here on my blog over the next week so DEFINITELY stay tuned.

Speak soon!

Tim Goodwin
http://GoalAchievementStrategy.com

P.S - Don’t forget to leave your own comments about this post. What do YOU think are the not-so-secret secrets to achieving success?

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Goal setting or goal getting?

What were you doing 78 days ago?

I know, funny question, but there is a point, you see, today is day 77 of 2009 which means that 78 days ago you were celebrating New Year’s Eve and, like most people, you were setting up your New Year’s Resolutions and goals.

And look, here we are at day 77 already.

Time goes by pretty quick, huh?

But I’m not just mailing you to act as some kind of timekeeper or clockwatcher, rather I wanted to share with something that I’ve been thinking about a lot this week.

You see, it recently dawned on me that, we’re already approaching the end of the first quarter of 2009 and that many of the goals I’d set for myself this year haven’t even been started. In truth, many of them haven’t even been thought about.

It’s not like they’re not important to me. They are, many of them would REALLY change my life for the better if I could bring them to life but, well, I just haven’t seemed to get around to them.

I bet you’re the same right?

I bet you have a huge list of things that you KNOW would absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt change your life for the better, yet you haven’t taken a single, solitary action on them, right?

Weird isn’t it?

For instance in my own life I know that these goals are important to me:

1. One date night a week with my wife – I get so consumed with the business that I often get side tracked and end up working well in to the evening, getting out and spending good time with my wife is essential to me (and her :o)
2. Have All my coaches with full schedules – This is both great for me, my trainers and the clients they train, I know they are good trainers I want them to earn a living from personal training just like me, which in turn builds my business
3. Plan a weekend away with my parents – I really don’t see my parents very often, they live in the UK.
4. Attend a Business networking opportunity once a month – Once again this is about building my business, and spreading the word about who I am and what we do
5. Complete a Mountain bike race – I used to be a competitive cyclist, and until just last month I had not ridden competitively in over 10 years, I love the sport and want to do more of this

Most likely you’ve got a bunch like this too haven’t you?

For example, what financial goals did you set for yourself on New Year’s Eve?

What about your health goals? I KNOW you had a bunch of those!

How about adventures? We all want to travel more and experience more and I bet you had set some goals in this department, right?

Not to mention relationships, education, family and career goals.

I bet you had a bunch, yet where are you with them?

That’s not a rhetorical question, I mean it. Where are you with these goals?

Did you achieve them as you said you would?

More to the point, did you even START them?

I know that I didn’t even BEGIN many of the goals I set at the start of the year. I know they’re important to me, I know they’ll change my life in more positive ways than I can even begin to tell you but for some strange reason, I haven’t even begun to chase them yet.

Like I said, weird.

So look, I’ve got this mad, crazy idea.

I want to help you achieve YOUR goals over the course of this year and I want you to keep ME on track. Sound like a fair deal?

It starts today.

Tell me what your most important, most pressing goals are and I’ll tell you mine and (hopefully) together we can see 2009 through in great style. Write a comment below this BLOG post and lets get this thing moving.

Of course, you could simply ignore this and pass it off as silly but, well, that’ll just mean that the next 77 days are just like the first, and the ones after that, and the ones after that.

I need help to bring my goals to life.

So do you.

So let’s do this!

BTW – I got my idea for this email from my friend Dax Moy, Author of The MAGIC Hundred. I’m glad he kicked me in the butt today : )

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