Pull the Darn Trigger (eBook)

7 Winning Strategies to Achieving Your Goals

Una Richards (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
10-10-10 Publishing (Verlag)
9781772772098 (ISBN)

Infos

Pull the Darn Trigger-7 Winning Strategies to Achieving your Goals is a practical guide to help individuals get from where they are to where they want to be. If you are an individual that has a goal or dream you want to achieve, but maybe you are unclear about exactly how to go about getting started, staying focused and inspired, this book is for you. If you sometimes feel stuck, you procrastinate or may be dealing with the fear of failure; this book is for you. Pull the Darn Trigger is intended to encourage individuals to believe in themselves and their abilities. Its goal is to helps them identify some of the self-limiting beliefs that may be holding them back from achieving the success they want and deserve. This book offers several tips and strategies that they may want to include in their goal setting plans. It is a guide that will help them get a clear vision of exactly what they want to achieve to stay focused and on target. Reading this book will inspire and encourage individuals to take the actions necessary to get them to pivot so they can get to a higher level in your goal achievement process. The principles in Pull the Darn Trigger can be applied in any area of your life in which you aspire to achieve a goal-whether it's to live a healthier lifestyle, make a career change, own your own business, live in your dream home, the possibilities are endless. Applying these principles will aid in guiding your thought process. You are what you think about the most. If you can dream it and take daily consistent and deliberate actions you can achieve it. If you aspire to ignite your goals, I encourage you to start today. Take ownership and responsibility for how your life is going, adopt these strategies and apply them to your goal setting plans and you will be well on your way to pulling the trigger on your goals or dreams.

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Chapter 1

Have a Clear Goal

•What is your goal?

•Why do you want the goal?

•What steps are you willing to take to get to the goal?

What is your goal? Your goal needs to be specific enough that you can articulate it when asked. If your goal is not clear, you will have difficulty in acquiring the right resources, information, or assistance, in order to achieve it.

Why do you want this goal? If you start with your “why,” it will be the driving force to accomplishing your goal. Keep it in the front of your mind. What will it do for you? In other words, what will be the end result after you have achieved your goal? The first step after identifying your goal is to write it down. There is a saying: “A goal is not a goal if it is not written; it is only a wish.” If you have a desire to accomplish a goal, or you have a dream that you wish to fulfill, and it is only in your head, more likely than not, it will not be actualized. You think you will successfully achieve it; however, it is said that people often fail because they have no structure or clear direction for achieving their goals.

You need to lay out clear directions of where you want to go and what happens when you get there. Consequently, your written goal needs to be clear and focused. Just as it is easier to get where you are going faster with a GPS or a road map, so are your goals easier to navigate if you have clear directions. Have a blueprint—a plan of what you intend to accomplish. Steven Covey, author of the book, Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, said to develop a personal mission statement. Your mission statement makes you the leader of your life; you create your own destiny and secure the future that you envision. He said, that to accomplish or achieve what you intend, the first step is to write it down. When you write down your goals, you are making an agreement with yourself. You are committing to doing your part to fulfill this agreement. Writing down your goals helps you to clarify the vision that you have in your mind and keeps you focused. Writing down your goals also motivates you to take action. Having a written goal increases the odds of accomplishing it. There have been numerous studies done, indicating that people who write down their goals, achieve them at a much higher rate than people who do not. Results don’t lie; so, follow-through and write it down. Next, your goal must be specific. Clarify what you expect to achieve by accomplishing the goal, and why. Be sure that it is not just a fleeting thought, or a “would be nice to have,” just to appease your love ones or to impress others. Access the real reasons why you want this goal, and if it truly is your desire, then go for it.

Make a list of the most important things that you must get done, and commit to doing them by making them a priority. Be clear about what you need to be doing, and place a timeline on when you need to have it done. If you don’t, your mind will be distracted, and your focus will be on non-essential tasks, instead of on your main overall goal.

To help you achieve your goals, there are several success formulas. One of the most popular success formula is the Smart (S.M.A.R.T.) goal formula.

•S stands for specific – the goal should be specific and be able to identify who, what, when, where, and why. It should be tangible.

•M stands for measurable – the goal should be measurable; you should be able to track your progress and accomplishment.

•A stands for attainable – how do you plan to achieve your goal?

•R stands for relevance – is it worthwhile having?

•T stands for timely – when do you plan to achieve it? What is your time frame? It must be specific; you must have a specific deadline.

Once you have completed the process of writing your goal, display it. Post your goal in an area in plain sight. Seeing is believing. Seeing it every day helps you to stay focused, and reminds you of what you need to do. Read it out aloud. By doing so, your subconscious mind will believe it and go to work to help you achieve it. Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between true or false. It will not pause to reason or wonder; it only follows whatever instructions you give it. That’s why it is imperative to think and stay positive, no matter what. This is one of those situations where you get out what you put in. If you plant positive thoughts of success and achievement daily, you will reap the benefits later, even when things are not working as planned. So, read your goals out loud to cement them in your subconscious mind.

After you have written it down and posted it, the next step is to organize it. You want to develop a plan to achieve it. Your why will be the driving force that will motivate and propel you to the next level. Shoot for the moon—if you miss, you’ll still be in the stars. Your why needs to be so big, and so audacious that when you think about achieving this goal, it should ignite you so that you burst with feelings of enthusiasm. It should motivate you to the point where you can see your life, and the lives of those around you, changing for the better as a result of it. So, think big, think positive, and see yourself accomplishing your goals. Dare to dream; when you dream big, whatever you focus on, expands, and when it does, your mind will go to work to achieve and make it happen. Remember, your mind does not know the difference; it will do whatever you tell it. So, write it down, and make it plain. Develop and recite your affirmation, it will generate a certain amount of energy around you. When it seems that you are off track, or everything around you is falling apart, it will be your GPS to redirect you, keep you focused, and re-energize you. In your daily affirmation, repeat words, such as, “I have,” or “I am.” Speak in the present tense as if it’s already done, and you have already reached your goal. “…call those things which be not as though they were.” – Romans 4:17 (KJV). As you speak of your goal, it builds self-confidence and gets you closer to pulling the trigger to make it happen.

Your goal should be so embedded in your subconscious mind that if someone were to awaken you in the middle of the night from a deep sleep and ask what your goal is, you could tell them, and go back to dreaming. That’s when you know you are passionate, and you are on a mission to getting what you want.

What’s Holding You Back?

So, you have a clear goal, you have written it down, and you have posted it. You have invested your time and your money. You are also affirming what you want to manifest, but you are not making the type of progress you thought you would have made by now, therefore, you are questioning yourself. What’s holding you back?

Have you ever truly desired to do something but find yourself holding back, or taking yourself out, as you get closer to achieving it? What’s stopping you? What are others telling you? More importantly, what are you telling yourself? What’s getting in the way of the accomplishment of your goals? Another question you need to ask yourself is whether this thing, or person, that you think is holding you back, is worth it. If the answer is a resounding no, then take a step and start heading towards your goal. What is it costing you as a result of not moving forward? Is it costing additional irretrievable time and money? The longer it takes you to act on the commitment that you made to yourself the longer it will take you to see the result. So many people are destined for greatness, but, because of perceived obstacles and barriers, they allow things to get in their way, so they feel stuck, and, therefore, they do nothing. This type of behavior is labeled in psychology as learned helplessness—a feeling that you can’t overcome certain obstacles placed in your path, so you give up trying, even after the obstacle has been long removed. Many times, it could have been something from the past that no longer exists; but because it was once a problem, even though it doesn’t exist anymore, it continues to be a barrier that stands in the way of your progress. The learned helplessness theory has been studied using animals such as elephants, dogs, rats, etc., in order to change their behaviors and to study the effect of depression and stress. One example points to the training of elephants, starting at a young age.

“When elephant trainers in India catch a baby elephant, they tie one of its legs to a post with a rope. The baby elephant struggles and struggles but it can’t get free. For days, the elephant pulls and strains at the rope. Gradually, it learns that struggle is useless and it gives up.

When the elephant grows up, the trainer keeps it tied to the same rope, in the same way. And, even though it can now break the rope and get away, it stands passively and waits for the trainer to come and get it. It has developed what is called ‘learned helplessness.’ It has learned that the struggle is useless. As a result of repeated failure experiences earlier in life, the elephant has learned a self-imposed limitation.”

– Learned...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2018
• Vorwort: Raymond Aaron
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• ISBN-13: 9781772772098 / 9781772772098