Read Your Goals Every Day

Today I have selected my number one idea for everyone including job hunters. I have listed it as number 5 in my article The Top 10 Priorities For Job Hunters. This article has been one of my best - I have had several requests from the media for interviews on it.

Read Your Goals Every Single Day.

Having clear goals in life gives you a significant advantage.

In fact most people think having dreams are goals. Dreams are not goals, goals are measurable, tangible, and have a date.

Saying “One day I will take the family to Disneyland” is not a clear goal. Saying “In August 2011, I am taking the family to Disneyland” is a clear goal.

In my Success Through Balance philosophy I promote having goals in in five different areas,

1. Health,
2. Relationships,
3. Financial Stability,
4. Giving Back and
5. Personal Growth.

Your written goals must be Personal, Positive, and in the Present.

There are different approaches to creating your goals. If you already have an approach - then use them.

Did you know all successful people have goals written down and they review them on a regular basis?

Here is an effective, but simple way to create goals:

1. For 30 days, each day, write down (without looking at the day before) at least 10 different goals.
2. At the end of the 30 days, your list of goals will be set.
3. Rewrite them once a month. In fact one of your goals should be, "I rewrite these goals at the beginning of every month".

I have actually about 50 goals I read each day. For goals that are far out - say 3 years away - I have some shorter goals.

Here is an example about my marathon running:

1. I am running the 2009 Toronto Marathon In Under 5 Hours.
2. I am running the 2011 Boston Marathon.

Here is a business example:

1. I am helping 10,000 people find jobs in 2009-2010
2. I am a regular on Oprah helping people find jobs starting in 2010

In both these cases - the first is a step to the second. But you will notice that the goals are Positive, Personal, and in the Present. The three "P"s of goals.

Read your goals out loud.

Reading them out loud does two things in your subconscious that will help your conscious mind.

1. Firstly it creates cognitive dissonance between the reality and the goal, and,
2. secondly it tells the reticular activating system to stop ignoring things that you need to help you.

Once you get hooked on goals, you will see successful people using them all the time.

You will wonder how you got anywhere at all.

Its one of the "Secrets of Success".

Create goals and read them everyday.

I am a little side tracked, but I loved the movie UP because I believe its all about setting goals, read what I wrote about UP in my Movie Review: Up – Forget The Story – Its About Setting Goals.

Take a job hunting action today - action is 1000 times better than thinking about an action.

Planning an action is great - if you take the action.

Zale