How To Achieve All Your Goals In 3 Simple Steps

Did you know that the day after labor day and January 2 are two of the biggest days of the year where people set goals?

It’s true.

In fact, around this time of year you’re probably going to start thinking about how you want your life to be like when January comes around. You might start setting some goals. You may want to build muscle… lose weight… or get stronger. Doesn’t matter what you’re goal is really…

I’m going to share with you 3 simple steps to achieve all your goals (fitness and otherwise):

Step #1: A Clear Vision Of Your Goal

This is simply picturing what you want your life to be like when you achieve your goal. Form a mental picture of yourself achieving your goal and living it and make it as vivid as possible in your mind. For a good book on how to do this you should check out Maxwell Maltz’s New Psycho-Cybernetics.

Then you are to stay positive, no matter what, and BELIEVE that you will achieve your goal(s).

Here’s a quick visualization tip. I’ll use the example of wanting to get stronger and lifting more weight for your next exercise routine…

1. Take a deep breath, relax and close your eyes
2. Visualize the last time you successfully lifted a weight
3. Feel all the emotions — the pride, the accomplishment, the satisfaction
4. When you’re doing this right you will be smiling at your achievement
5. Visualize yourself performing your next lift with success and FEEL those same emotions
6. Go make your lift!

This is the way the athletic pros visualize for success. And you can use the same process on virtually any goal: getting stronger, losing weight, quitting smoking, making money, whatever…

Step #2: A Plan To Get There

Once you have a clear picture of where you want to go, you need a plan to get there. Then it’s as simple as keeping the objective in mind while following the plan. As George Foreman said about success it comes down to “Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan”.

It worked for Georgey and I’m betting it will work for you too.

Step #3: People To Keep You Accountable

This is an often overlooked step. You really need some people in your life to keep you accountable. I hear as far as diets go that Weight Watchers is most effective at getting people to lose weight because every week you have to tell another person how much weight you’ve lost. And if you don’t… well you don’t want to be the guy who didn’t lose weight right?

Heck even the Bible says:

Iron Sharpens Iron, So one man sharpens another — Proverbs 27:17

It’s true too. It’s much easier to stay motivated and on track when you have one or more people who care about you achieving your goals and you care about them achieving theirs–then you keep each other in line and provide a swift kick in the pants when needed.

(Better yet, is when you enjoy giving each other the kick in the arse!) Got any tips, methods, or shortcuts you’ve used to achieve goals in the past? Share them in the comments…

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