Top Ten Ways to Achieve Your Goals

After years of coaching people to set and achieve their goals, I have defined a TOP TEN list of how to achieve your goals. Over the past eleven days, I have itemized this list. Here is the list compiled into one post.
1. Who Will You Be (After You Achieve Your Goals)
A goal will help you [...]

Be Like Mike

“Do what you do best and let someone else do best what you aren’t good at”. - Dave Laxton
Even Michael Jordan worked with a great coach. Would Michael have been as great if he had not played for Phil Jackson? I doubt it. Phil Jackson was as good a coach as Michael was a [...]

Go to the Outhouse Often

“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? … What do they have me thinking?
And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?” - Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine, July 21, 2003)
Eliminate the [...]

Keep the Vampires Away

“Accept everything about yourself–I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end–no apologies, no regrets.” - Clark Moustakas
Spend your time around people who who support you and love you unconditionally. Stay away from the vampires who suck the life-blood out of you. They weaken your foundation and cause you to [...]

Just Say “NO”

“Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle. - Jack Canfield
Decision making needs [...]

Become Alexander the Great

” … guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers and by our psychologist’s fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.” - Marcus Buckingham - in “Now Discover Your Strengths”
Set goals that maximize your strengths. [...]

Be Passionate About Your Goals

“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.” - Arthur Buddhold
Set goals and steps that make you want to jump out of bed in the morning! Or, find a reason to become on fire for them.
Oprah recently presented a show several people who had lost over 150 pounds. They ALL said the [...]

Stay In Control of Your Destiny

“If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren’t doing enough asking.” - Jack Canfield
Set goals and set steps that YOU can control. If your goal is to live in a log cabin in the mountains, then one of the steps toward achieving that goal [...]

Pave Your Path with Stepping-Stones

“I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.” - Bono
To achieve your big goals, you must pave the path to them with small stepping stones. Set mini-achievements for each step along the way. Feel good about yourself often. Celebrate each achievement. [...]

The Power of Three (Focus to Attain Your Goals)

“… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness …” “… faith, hope and charity…” … of the people, by the people and for the people …”
Research shows that the human mind can only focus on three things at a time. Too many of us are overwhelmed by too many things going [...]