How Do You Set Big Enough Goals To Keep You Motivated?

Dated: date September 22, 2010 – 9:19 am

You can never set “big” enough goals to keep you motivated and working everyday.  A more reliable process is to set goals that “mean” enough to you that you are inspired to keep working every day.  Inspiration is defined as imbued with the spirit to do something.  That can only be accomplished through meaning.  Consider that the bigger problem is that you are looking at your current work as “hard”.  A far more powerful idea is to change the relationship you have with work.  In my book Creating Sales Velocity I talk about writing a gratitude list every day.  Try writing one just focused on work and notice that work gets easy, effortless and enjoyable.

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The Strangest Success Secret

Dated: date September 14, 2010 – 1:46 pm

Let me tell you about the strangest success secret of all. Success is a series of well-managed breakdowns. Breakdowns? Success is not this destination that you get to. Success is not this place, where you will suddenly way “oh my god, it’s so amazing now!” In fact, what you’re going to find is that when you work with me, I’m going to help you to remove the barriers that stop you from taking the critical and important actions that will fulfill your goals and dreams.

What happens is you upset the apple cart. See, your life is not designed to fulfill upon the desires that you have within your heart. Your life is designed to fulfill upon what it is already fulfilling upon. So the moment you start taking effective and powerful action is the moment you start becoming someone who is joyous. And that is going to annoy people and piss them off. You’re going to go to breakdown in your relationships. If you take effective action, it’s going to confront what you always do. You have a procedure, a process, in your life. It’s sort of a habit or patterns that you do. And the moment you start taking new actions and start doing new choices and new behaviors, it sets things into a negative state.

Destruction and creation are the same thing. See, the strangest success secret of all is that success is destructive, and that you must learn to become someone who celebrates the destruction. When things are going wrong, something good is happening. When you are in breakdown, something good is happening. When you are sitting there going “How am I gonna get myself out of this?” Something good is happening because you put yourself into a new place.

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Get Over Your Fear of Goals

Dated: date September 2, 2010 – 12:27 pm

I was working with a client recently, and she said to me, “I’m afraid to create my big vision right now. I just think – I’m in such flux. I’m in such transition in my life, that whatever I create right now, I know three to six months from now, it’ll be irrelevant.”

And I said to her, “Whoa. Whoa, whoa. I want you to be ballsy right now. I want you to create a huge future that gets you excited, that brings your energy up, so you can experience the joy of it now knowing it’ll be irrelevant in three to six months, because it’ll be irrelevant for everybody in three to six months! I don’t care who you are.”

Whatever vision you create today will ratchet you up a couple notches. And from that new point of view, when you look out into the world, you’re going to say, “Wait a second. I want something totally different. I want to change it, or I want to adjust it.”

See, a plan is a working, living, breathing document. It’s not set in stone. Goals are not set in stone. Your goals are nothing more than devices to create new experiences for you. Your goals and dreams are about creating experiences for you, whether you accomplish them or not, who cares? It’s who you become in the process that counts.

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Your Energy is A Function of Your Future

Dated: date June 14, 2010 – 9:47 am

If your energy is low, then your future is probably not that exciting.  If your energy is high, then your future is likely something you are excited about.  When I work with Life Coaching clients I’m always checking into their energy level to discover if new goals are necessary.  One of my clients works at a very big bank.  He has conquered the big challenges in his department.  The department is profitable but his energy is low.  I asked him, “What are you looking forward to?” His answer was telling, “Nothing.”

We immediately went to work on new goals.  By the end of the session, he was excited again.  How about you?  Are you excited about the future that is coming?  Today create a new set of goals that lights you up.

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Do You Have Too Many Goals?

Dated: date April 10, 2010 – 11:39 am

I just finished creating my goals and intentions for the Second Quarter of 2010. I started by assessing my Q1. In doing so I realized that I wasn’t living my over-arching intention for 2010. I have two signs in front of my computer screens:
1. Simplicity
2. My time is valuable

In the first quarter I set 74 intentions and goals. Hello!!! That is not simple at all. Didn’t realize this until I went through and checked off what I completed. I only completed 44%.

Second thing I realized is that The Drunk Monkey snuck into my goal-setting process at the beginning of this year. The Drunk Monkey told me my life wasn’t good enough the way it was. It told me I better get a bunch of stuff done to prove my worth. In other words, I was breaking my second overall intention for 2010 which was to recognize my value.

So for the first time in my life I’ve only got 14 goals and intentions. Here’s a sample of the difference between last quarter and this quarter.

In the category of Physical Health, last quarter I said:
1. Eat effectively
2. Reduce sugar by 90%
3. Hard core workouts 4 x a week
4. Walk dogs daily
5. Chiropractic adjustment 2 x a month
6. Stretch daily
7. Hair cut monthly

This quarter I’m simply intending one thing: I am totally happy and satisfied with every aspect of my body.

Ahhh! That feels good. Life is good. There’s no where to go. Nothing to accomplish. No reason to push. This quarter is going to be an enjoyable, effortless quarter.

How about you?

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Living Your Purpose While Picking Up Dog Poop

Dated: date February 23, 2010 – 7:54 am

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