How To Achieve All Your Goals In 7 Steps

In this short blog post today, I’m going to tell you how to achieve all your fitness goals this year, so you can make it your best year ever! It’s the beginning of the new year as I write this post, so it’s a perfect time to plan the year and get started making it awesome.

Want to build more muscle this year? Burn more fat? Get stronger, faster, more endurance?

Want to build a “god like” physique you’ll be proud to get nekkid and show off? I’ll show you how to achieve all that and more!

Step 1: Set NO Resolutions!

What most people do wrong is they approach new years with “resolutions” and think about all the things they want to STOP doing. For example, I want to stop eating so much sugar, I want to stop being lazy, etc.

This is a sure-fire recipe for disaster because your mind is like a powerful guided missile, what you focus on is what you’ll attract most and get the most of. So instead of focusing on what you do NOT want, instead we’re going to focus on what we DO want.

Which means being positive about what you want to achieve this year and putting it into the “positive” frame of goal setting… but I got some unique twists on goal setting to make it even more effective for you.

Step 2: Set written, quantifiable goals.

First, a goal is not a goal until it is written down on a sheet of paper. Or I like to use 3×5 cards because I can carry them around with me and review my goals easily that way.

Here’s how to write down a goal:

Specific: Not “lose weight”, instead “lose 10lbs of weight”…
Quantifiable: not just “lose 10lbs weight”, instead “lose 10lbs of weight by March…”
Positive: Be “positive” as much as possible with your goal setting words…
Stated in present: “By March 3rd, I have lost 10lbs of weight and look so great naked…”

Put all your goals down on paper, your fitness goals, financial goals, and relationship goals.

Step 3: Review Your Goals Daily

The key to making your goal setting work for you is to review the goal. This is the hardest part (at least for me) because you have to remember to make it a habit. But it only takes 28 days to get something firmly implanted in your body as a habit.

So do this: pick a time of day, either right when getting up or right when going to bed to review your goals each day. And do it without fail each morning/night for 28 days… then you’ll find it harder to NOT do it than you will to do it — it will become a habit.

Step 4: Visualize Success With Positive Emotions

Reviewing your goals is not just reading them. For best results, you should use your imagination to picture yourself already having achieved your goal. In the present moment in time you ARE that person who has (using our example above) lost 10lbs of weight and feels great looking at himself naked.

Imagine this with a LOT of positive emotions too — think about how great it FEELS to be this person, to have achieved this goal, let a smile get in your face and really FEEL it.

Step 5: Take MASSIVE Action

Steps 1-4 are completely and totally WORTHLESS unless you do step 5 and that is start taking MASSIVE action towards achieving your goals!

I didn’t say take “action” I said take MASSIVE action — which means not just doing 1 or 2 things to achieve your goal (like cutting out potatoe chips to lose weight). Instead attack your goal from EVERY angle, cut out the potatoe chips, start resistance training, do cardio on the off days and drink more water… massive action brings massive results much more quickly.

Step 6: Fail Fast

Anyone who has ever achieved ANYTHING worthwhile has failed doing it first. Read that again. EVERYONE fails. So stop thinking of failing as a bad thing and think of it as a good thing. I think of it as “failing FORWARD” because you’re discovering what does not work and how you need to “readjust” course to get to your goals.

So get started with massive action, and don’t be afraid to fail, even if it takes you 1,000 failures to reach your goal, you must commit to that… and finally, on a related note…

Step 7: Keep Going No Matter What!

You must NEVER accept anything less than your goals. Say you don’t lose that 10lbs by march, then you:

keep doing what you’re doing (if it’s working) until you reach it
look at your results (if it’s NOT working) and readjust to be more effective then…
Keep going till you make it!

That’s really all there is to achieving your goals in life. Apply these seven steps to your life this year and you’ll be looking forward to your best year ever!

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