Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Work Your Goals

Category: Finance.

I want to ask you two questions. And two, do you have written goals for the next one, five and ten, three years?



One, do you have a Will? If you answered yes to the first question but no to the second, you are planning more for your death than you are while you are here. I want to challenge you to start setting some goals, but remember if a goal is not in writing, it is simply a conversation. Think about it. It must be in writing and it must have a deadline. Oh, by the way. you need a will also.


Here are a few guidelines for setting goals. Goals Must be Specific. When you start rough for example, you want a Mercedes. I want you to be specific and include details but start rough. You do not have to get into the details about what color, that sort of, what options thing, just write it down. You can come back later and prioritize them and set them up as to what you want in one month, six months, three months, twelve months, five, then three, ten, thirty year goals, twenty. Make your list huge, what kind of home do you want, what you want for your family, spend more time, college education, travel, anything you can think of.


The more goals you have, the happier you will be, the longer you will live, and the more prosperous you will be. Remember this, your goals must be believable, or you will, by you not pay the price. Goals Must be Believable. They must be believable, they must be just out of your reach, but you must know you can reach them, if you really strive to do it. You cannot set a goal to be financially independent. Goals Must be Measurable. There is no way you can measure that.


One, five, three, ten and twenty years. You need to set a goal for the amount of income you want per month, the amount of, per year equity that you want in properties& ndash. It must be measurable. Reduce it to the ridiculous& rdquo; . That way you can break it down to what I call& ldquo. If you know you want to earn$ 100, you know that, 000 a year is$ 8, 333 per month.


S just one deal a month where I live. That& rsquo. One of the things I have learned is, successful people set their goals quickly and they make adjustments as they go along. Get mixed up in a funk of negativity. Just like successful people make decisions quickly, they do not vacillate in indecision or what I call sometimes. Goals Must be Congruent. You cannot set a goal to work harder, longer hours AND a goal to spend more time with your family.


Your goals must also be congruent with your actions. Those are not congruent. Visualize What You Want. They must be congruent with your actions. Another good thing that will help you with your goals is to visualize what you want. It& rsquo.


If you see yourself as already having achieved the goal, you will fake out your mind and your mind sees the goal as already having been achieved. S called& ldquo. I used to do this all of the time. Fake it till you make it& rdquo; . Just take a minute or two each day and think about life as it is with your goals already accomplished. S really easy when you get used to it.


It& rsquo. Work Your Goals. Number Your Goals. The next thing you want to do is work your goals, work on the priority that moves you closer to your goals every day. Number your goals in the order of importance. Sure your want a car, but why do you want the car?


Not only is the goal important but so is the reason. Sure your want more money, but why do you want money? Whatever it is, the reason must be there. You want to be able to spend more time with your family, you want to be able to travel, you want to buy a Hummer, and you want to have an ocean front condo or send your children to the best college. The reason is more important than the goal itself. Another thing you need to do is review, monitor and make adjustments on your goals. Review, Monitor and Make Adjustments.


You have to be flexible. But you need to continuously strive to get better every day. Some things are not going to happen, you have to face that. If you will work harder on yourself than you do on your job then you will always be growing. The Goals Must Have a Deadline. Remember that last sentence and write it down as it is worth repeating.


As I mentioned first, your goals must have a deadline. When beginning to set your goals, I want you to set your goals in four basic areas: Financial. A goal without a deadline is just a conversation. You will set goals based on income, equity or net worth and cash flow. Fitness. All of these are financial goals. This is your health.


T feel good, chances are that you are not working at your maximum capacity. If you don& rsquo. So, I want you to set some fitness goals to stay healthy. An apple a day& rdquo; ? Remember& ldquo. What if this is right and you are not doing it? T try to tackle all of these at once.


Start small though, you don& rsquo. But you need to be healthy not only for you but for your family as well. Set family goals. Family. What is an example of a family goal? Maybe you want to visit a new state, three times a year or five times a year. Maybe you want to take four vacations a year.


Maybe you want to go see the Grandparents two or three times a year. Anyway, you get the point. But maybe not. Faith. I am not going to get into a lot of detail about that but that will help you along your way. You need to set some spiritual goals, some faith goals.


Remember, if you slip in one area of your goals, you are probably slipping in some other areas. Take a minute and think about this. Another thing I want you to think about is the people you associate with. If you think about your ten closes friends annual salary and divide it by ten, then that is pretty close to what you make. M not telling you to get rid of your friends, all I& rsquo. I& rsquo. M saying is whom you associate with, is who you are like, so please keep that in mind.


T get rid of your friends, just get some more that are where YOU want to be financially. Don& rsquo. Most of the people I hang out with now, we all make over$ 500, 0000 a year. I never imagined I could make that kind of money& hellip; . That just blows me away. Well I guess I could, as we are talking about goal setting and visualization aren& rsquo.


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