Goals are the mile markers by which reality finds its way to your dreams.
“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.” ~ Claude M. Bristol
Look at YOU—Ever.
As I said all last week, the difference between merely EXISTING and truly LIVING is the difference between just KNOWING your values—and INCORPORATING them into every decision you make… and every ACTION you take.
This week we are going to cover the importance of setting SMART Goals: Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Tangible.
If you don’t have SMART Goals, you don’t really have goals… and living what you value most will remain elusively out of reach.
The importance of developing this skill to your career… your company… your family… and your future cannot be overstated.
Goals confusion leads to frustration, failed expectations and ultimately—total burn-out.
If you are struggling with money problems, career challenges even relationship issues, the best way OUT is setting a handful of SMART Goals.
Because if YOU don’t know what you want, when you want it, and what it’s going to take to get it… how can ANYBODY help you?
Think about it.
Your goals must be SPECIFIC, otherwise you have nothing tangible to work towards.
Vague, undirected and uninspired goals lack the internal motivators to move your body, heart and soul to take positive ACTION.
A Goals Challenge…
Where DREAMS are born from your imagination, GOALS are born from a promise.
The issue is, what have you promised yourself that you would achieve by now?
Have you kept that promise?
Please take some time today to think about your career or business.
What would you like to accomplish… next?
Where would you like to take it… next?
Now, transform that THOUGHT into a SMART Goal with the expected date of realization September 20, 2015… then perform beyond expectations.
Specific: ________________________________
Measurable: _____________________________
Achievable: ______________________________
Realistic: ________________________________
Tangible: ________________________________
My Time Horizon: Summer 2017.
Important Ideas For Action…
No question, High TQ Performance is the key to the success you desire, however you define it: Wealth… Power… or Happiness. This is not just marketing hype, but an observation that comes from tens of millions of data points at ThinkTQ.com. It is as close to FACT as you will ever find.
One of the big drivers of High TQ Performance is your ability to set crystal-clear goals for what you want to see happen, one… five… ten… fifteen years out. While we cannot give you the full set of instructions for becoming a certified EXPERT at setting goals, I am willing to give you a few pointers… to get you started moving in the right direction.
The following Ideas for Action from our Set Goals Personal Workshop represent some of the best thinking on the planet about getting SPECIFIC about your goals. Each is designed to inspire and motivate you to actually do TQ Factor 4A a great deal more frequently.
Keep in mind, however, that they will remain ideas until you put them into action. Stop and listen to the audio track for this TQ Factor while you’re reading the rest of this page, and while you’re completing the exercises below.
This is just one track from our fabulous MISSION Personal Workshop. If you don’t own the complete collection, maybe it’s high time to get with the program!
The Bottom Line…
Without SMART Goals, you are just spinning your wheels, confusing effort with results.
Stop it!
As you go through the rest of the month, take a hard look around your life. Don’t filter your observations through the “good enough” lens. Expect more!
Imagine what your life will be like when you are actually living what’s most important to you.
Commit to LIVING what you VALUE.
Develop SMART Goals for attaining what you VALUE most.
Everything will change.
If you haven’t already, right now is the perfect time to take a baseline assessment of your EXCELLENCE FACTOR. I urge you to take the full 100 question TQ Test to baseline where you are now… and what you will need to do differently to achieve your goals this year. — E.R. Haas, CEO
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