Yah Know? It’s hard coming up with snazzy titles. I wonder if the journalists have a piece of software that generates snazzy caption’s for their news articles. Maybe it’s a table or a series of tables (i.e. baseball table) with 3 columns or so. You fill in the blank with the subject and then there are several columns for adverbs, adjectives and verbs. You draw one or two from each column and arrange them into semi coherent sentences. Well again, I digress.
As I said yesterday, I’ve been thinking about goals a lot lately and I’m trying to decide if the lack of clearly defined goals is what is holding me back. I’m not experiencing the success part.
The only way to tell if that is the problem is to clearly define some SMART goals and then measure.
Smart goals in this case are
- Simple
- Measurable
- Actionable (Describe an Action)
- Realistic
- Time – bound
The Goal Genie software came with a few tutorials and templates which define a process that seems simple and intuitive. You conceive, believe and achieve.
Conception of your goals is a 3 step process.
Initially you must dream your goals and in this case DREAM Goals are
- Daring
- Rewarding
- Energizing
- Advance
- Mountain Top
The second step is to define Action Goals
- Things you can do to make your dream come true
And finally, convert your action goals into SMART Goals
- Simple
- Measurable
- Actionable (Describe an Action)
- Realistic
- Time – bound
Belief in your goals requires that you first convert your SMART Goals into Visual Smart Goals. In order to do that, you rewrite the SMART Goals using these rules.
- Always start the goal with the words “I AM”
- Write them in present tense
- Include at least one “Feeling” word
- Describes the moment of doing or achieving your goal
Finally, you must review your Visual Smart Goals daily several times a day.
Doing the visualization helps your subconscious believe and by doing that, you achieve!
So to summarize,
- you dream about how you would like things to be
- figure out small steps that would help those things come to pass
- rewrite the goals in SMART format so that you can track your success
- rewrite the goals in a Visual Smart format such that it appears that the goal has already been completed.
- remember Dr. Maltz’s description of the human brain and nervous system as the “perfect goal-striving servo-mechanism.”?
“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” – Maxwell Maltz
- Review the goals over and over again
Just for grins, I’ll take a goal through the steps.
DREAM: I look good nekkid! (ed: Damn Right!)
Action: I will lift weights and run intervals
SMART: two smart goals (ed: Bonus material!)
- I will lift weights for 30 minutes 3x each week
- I will run intervals for 20 minutes 2x each week
Visual Smart Goals: rewriting the two SMART GOALS
- I am Pumped! at the end of each of my 30 minute weight lifting sessions, 3x this week!
- I am exhilarated and happy at the end of each of my 20 minute intervals sessions, 2x this week!
