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Visualize The Achievement of Your Goals

Too often the subconscious mind plays goalie for the other team, using limiting beliefs that have been programmed into it from an early age.  Using techniques to access the subconscious mind and reprogram it with positive, unlimited beliefs and thoughts will propel us to successful goal achievement.

I discussed some of the exercises we used in martial arts training to broaden our minds capabilities.  The ability to "SEE" an image in my mind that another person was thinking directly across from me, showed me how powerful the mind is and what it can achieve if you believe.

I was completely amazed when the guy across from me told me I had visualized not only his wife, but also his brother-in-law.  I was also able to FEEL some tension between the two people he was thinking about and when I mentioned this, he told me that his wife and her brother had an argument the day before he left and she was very upset about it.  I had not only visualized her and him, but also felt the tension between them.

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Meditation

Try some meditation and see how it works for you.  As you work up into more time, start working on visualizing you achieving your goals.  Visualize yourself in the room when your name is called for an award. Visualize yourself sitting in your new office chair as you start your new business. Visualize and feel the excitement when you take on and achieve your next goal.

I mentioned Pat Flynn with the Smart Passive Income Podcast and how he had mentioned some meditation apps he used.  I have never used apps to practice meditating.  I have always been taught guided meditation and then on my own.  I have guided many people in many meditations as well as having been lead through them.

The Apps that Pat mentioned are here:

Muse Meditation App - Muse has an app you can get for your smartphone and a Brain Sensing Headband.  [amazon template=image&chan=goalgettingpodcast&asin=B00LOQR37C]

Calm - The Calm App is one of an amazing app.  I also like the Calm.com website. You heard some of the sounds but click on the link to go and see the visualization of the sounds.

Headspace - As Pat says, this is a more economical choice over the Muse Headband and app, and gives you a good start in learning meditation.

Check the apps out and let me know which one you like best in our Comments Section Below.

Would you be interested in attending a Guided Meditation on a Google Hangout Online?  If that is something you would be interested in, let me me know in the comments section below.

Visualization Steps

1. Find a comfortable, quiet place where you won't be disturbed.

2. Close your eyes and begin thinking about your "Power Place", a place where you feel energized and excited.

3. Start thinking of a goal you want to achieve.

4. Picture in your mind, you in the place, the feeling, with the goal.

5. Picture - visualize in your mind, you achieving the goal you set.

6. Feel the energy and / or emotion you would feel when you would achieve that goal.

7. Visualize you Celebrating and Rewarding yourself for achieving the goal you have just visualized.

Visualize the Achievement of Your Goals.

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Too often the subconscious mind plays goalie for the other team, using limiting beliefs that have been programmed into it from an early age. Using techniques to access the subconscious mind and reprogram it with positive, unlimited beliefs and thoughts will propel us to successful goal achievement.

I discussed some of the exercises we used in martial arts training to broaden our minds capabilities. The ability to "SEE" an image in my mind that another person was thinking directly across from me, showed me how powerful the mind is and what it can achieve if you believe.

I was completely amazed when the guy across from me told me I had visualized not only his wife, but also his brother-in-law. I was also able to FEEL some tension between the two people he was thinking about and when I mentioned this, he told me that his wife and her brother had an argument the day before he left and she was very upset about it. I had not only visualized her and him, but also felt the tension between them.

Meditation

Try some meditation and see how it works for you. As you work up into more time, start working on visualizing you achieving your goals. Visualize yourself in the room when your name is called for an award. Visualize yourself sitting in your new office chair as you start your new business. Visualize and feel the excitement when you take on and achieve your next goal.

I mentioned Pat Flynn with the Smart Passive Income Podcast and how he had mentioned some meditation apps he used. I have never used apps to practice meditating. I have always been taught guided meditation and then on my own. I have guided many people in many meditations as well as having been lead through them.

The Apps that Pat mentioned are here:

Muse Meditation App - Muse has an app you can get for your smartphone and a Brain Sensing Headband. [amazon template=image&chan=goalgettingpodcast&asin=B00LOQR37C]

Calm - The Calm App is one of an amazing app. I also like the Calm.com website. You heard some of the sounds but click on the link to go and see the visualization of the sounds.

Headspace - As Pat says, this is a more economical choice over the Muse Headband and app, and gives you a good start in learning meditation.

Check the apps out and let me know which one you like best in our Comments Section Below.

Would you be interested in attending a Guided Meditation on a Google Hangout Online? If that is something you would be interested in, let me me know in the comments section below. Visualization Steps

1. Find a comfortable, quiet place where you won't be disturbed.

2. Close your eyes and begin thinking about your "Power Place", a place where you feel energized and excited.

3. Start thinking of a goal you want to achieve.

4. Picture in your mind, you in the place, the feeling, with the goal.

5. Picture - visualize in your mind, you achieving the goal you set.

6. Feel the energy and / or emotion you would feel when you would achieve that goal.

7. Visualize you Celebrating and Rewarding yourself for achieving the goal you have just visualized.

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Hello Goal Getter Nation, This is Tony Woodall, your host for Goal Getting Podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about Defining Your Why

Why Baby Why?

And what we're talking about with that is, "why do you do what you do?

Or, "why are you trying to get the goals you set?"

One of the most difficult things, I think, to get the goals you set, is to determine what your why is, to Define Your Why.

I found it easier to write it down as I'm thinking about it along with

My What, which is what I want to achieve and

My How, the action steps I have to do to accomplish it

So I created a worksheet to help me create My What, My How and My Why

and you can download a copy of the worksheet later at GoalGettingPodcast.com/action

And, I've been to motivational speaking seminars for many years.

I've gone to more than I can think of, or as my grandparents use to say, More than I can shake a stick at.

You know I used to go to see a lot of motivational speakers since I was in my early 20's. When I first heard about products from Amway, I became an Amway distributor many, many, many years ago.

One of the things that got me started is I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make a lot of money. I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to enjoy life.

And I wanted to be motivated so I started going to the motivational seminars to learn more about the business and things. I got involved along with Amway and later in life several other multi-level marketing or direct marketing organizations and I don't have anything bad to say about them. So I am not talking negative or positive about that particular experience because I did learn a lot business, about life, about sales and marketing working in those organizations.

But I also got my start listening and studying motivational speakers. And I love motivational speakers. I still listen to motivational speakers today. You know I’ve listened to some of the best. I went to several Tony Robbins seminars; I've got and read all of his books and several taped programs of his. Mark Victor Hanson, I listened to him before he did the Chicken Soup for the Soul series that he's involved in. I've listened to many, many motivational speakers. I did the sound for one, Mike... and I can't remember his name now.

He helped me when I spoke to him one morning at breakfast and we were talking about being motivated and being successful and you know, we talked about some family relationships I had with my birth father, and they weren't good relationships. He was talking about how we had to forgive those who had wronged us. We don't have to necessarily be around them or like them, but we do have to forgive them. That was the key. It has nothing to do with motivation, but it does motivate you because being angry with people doesn't get you motivated.

When we're talking about goals, one of the things I did going to motivational seminars, one of the things that you see frequently, is they ask you and they start bringing up all of these different things that motivate people and ask what motivates you.

Is it new cars? Maybe it's that Rolls Royce, or that Bentley or the Maybach. In my day, back when I was going through this as a youngster, it was the Cadillac that was the thing. It was the Cadillac El Dorado was my favorite car that I wanted back then. That was the thing you strived for was to have a big, fancy car, whether the Cadillac, Rolls Royce or Bentley, a Ferrari or BMW, a sports car or something like that. Was that what motivated you? A new car.

Or maybe it was a new home or a mansion. I remember talking about getting this big home with white columns on it. I am from the south and we always invisioned having the columns on the outside of our homes. One of the things you wanted a home on a golf course or a beach house, a mountain retreat or second home for vacations on the beach or whatever. So alot of times you are motived or try to get motivated for success or to make a lot of money or whatever. Money Motivated is the big thing alot of people talk about. I am personally money motivated. I like to do things to earn money. But, money isn't really the money that's motivating you and me. I got thinking about that later on in life. We think about money and what are the things that motivate you. In today's episode it's kind of about motivation. So I want you to think while we are talking here. What motivates you. What gets' you excited to get out of bed and to do the things like that. What motivates you? Because we start looking at these things as we start looking at new cars, new homes, vactaions, I love to cruise. I have been on many cruises with different cruise lines. I love to travel. I haven't traveled as much as I would have like to. I've been mostly in the Caribbean. My goal is to travel on the Pacific side. Out in the Pacific, go to Hawaii, Tahiti, Singapore, maybe some other places in Asia. I still want to visit Japan. As a martial artist my martial arts instructor and sensei, the gransmaster is in Japan. He's been to the states several times and I've taken seminars with him and learned, but i never got an opportunity to go to Japan and train with him there at the schools there. That's still one of my goals. So Travel is a motivation.

Finally maybe you've got a goal or the motivation is money. Again, Financial is a big motivator for a lot of people. You've got kids and want to put them through college or put yourself through college, or pay for your college you got. Most millinials today have so much college debt. Student loans and things like that. I am paying for my daughter's student loans. I'm paying for my daughter's student loans, or more so my student loans for my daughter, Not her's as she has her own student loans which are more than mine, actually, which is really sad when you think about it. Maybe you want to do something for putting yourself, your children, or your Grandchildren, though college at some point in time. Maybe you just want to increase your income or get a job. Those are some motivational things for dealing with Financial or money.

Maybe your motivation is health. To Lose Weight, get in better shape, to be able to run a marathon or an ultra-marathon. I found out about ultra-marathon and I didn't realize there was a such thing as an Ultra-Marathon until recently when one of my coworkers was talking about his wife and he, who do ultra-marathons on the weekend. I didn't realize they were called ultra-marathons until after. He talked about how she goes out to run 100 mile runs on the weekend. It's like a 36 hour of runnning they do. Man that is amazing that someone can run that far. You have to be able to be motivated to do that, in my opinion.

What we want to talk about today is not these type of motivation or the things that excite you or motivate you or want to have. These are goals, I believe, they aren't really motivations.

They are goals you can have, but when you think about goals and setting and achieving goals, one of the key elements I used to forget about and never rally thought about it, Why do I want that. Another motivational speaker, and I apologize I can't remember which one it was that I had heard and was talking to one day and listening to one of their talks and they said, You really have to know your Why! And I didn't understand that when I first heard that. I thought, Why, Why Why do I do this and that's really one of the biggest things you have to think about when you want to set a goal and learning the Goal Getting, Don't Just Set'em Get'em Program that I teach on this podcast, Goal Getting Podcast or at seminars, or webinars that I do is talking about knowing your Why. I used to just talk about in my presentations that I did for Goal Getting, even before I learned about the Why part, was that you had to understand your motivations.

Really, when you think about motivation there are two types of motivation I learned about.

1) People are motivated by what called "Away Motivation" They are really trying to get away from something, and that is what motivates them. So, the fear of going into bankruptcy is something that motivates a lot of people. They don't want to lose everything; they don't want to go to the poor house. That is one thing that motivates a lot of people, moving away from something bad. They don't want to get sick and die. They don't want to have a heart attack. They don't want to have an accident in their car, so they drive safely. Those are Away Motivations that people have. I used to teach and ask, “what are you trying to get away from”.

2) The other way people are motivated is "Towards Motivation". We try to get things to come towards us - like joy, happiness, a feeling of excitement, an adrenaline rush. Whatever it is that we want to get that feeling or excitement Towards us. We have the Toward Motivation and then we have the Away Motivation.

That's what I originally thought about as the motivating factors for setting goals. Until I heard that one motivational speaker talk, and I apologize I can't remember who it was I was listening to. But, what they really talked about was, and this is what I teach now is,

You have to know your Why.

Why do you do what you’re doing to be successful, or what is the reason why you do your goals. Why is very important and you have to start looking at it.

I have been studying Lean Six Sigma and Six Sigma type programs and one of the things they teach you in the six sigma process is to ask WHY. There is a minimum of 5-7 whys that you have to drill down to. It's kind of like a 3-4 year old.

When my daughters were young, I dreaded the 3-4 year old stage because they asked about 4000 questions a day, it seemed, one every minute, and typically my daughters would always ask Why, Why, Why. I never always knew the answer, so I eventually always said, "because I said So."

I did actually use that on my daughters a couple times and that was really wrong when they wanted to know why and especially as they got older and I had to tell them they couldn't do something. They always asked Why. But that's a different kind of why.

As a child, your curiosity is very strong so you always wondering, sometimes as a matter of habit after a while. You have children as they are growing up 2-3-4 years old that start asking why about everything, You say do this, they go why, do this, why, because you need to do it this way and they go why...everybody is questioning authority and questioning the reason for whatever you are telling them to do at that age. That's because they are learning.

And when you're working with your goals and you’re working with motivation and things like that you really have to understand what your Why is.

Why do I want to do this, for example: Why do you want to lose weight? I've wanted to lose weight for quite a long time and mainly you have to think about asking why you want to lose weight. Well, I want to lose weight because I'm tired of being fat. I actually had my youngest daughter came up to me one day when I was sitting on the couch. She was probably about 3 - 4 years old if that old. She came up and asked, "Daddy, Why are you fat?"

It hurt like crazy, but she didn't mean anything about it, she was just wondering and someone had been talking about fat people and may have even been talking about me. But, I was overweight, incredibly overweight at time and she goes, why are you overweight? I didn't have a good answer for her, other than the fact I liked to eat and I didn't eat properly. When I started trying to lose weight, I didn't think about my why for that. I started thinking about, well, I just don't like being overweight, I look ugly, I look fat, that was kind of my motivation at the time. I didn't want to be fat; I just wanted to be thin as people are supposed to be. As I got older, I got medical because of being overweight. I became a type 2 diabetic.

Now, as I start losing weight, and I am on a weight loss program. I lost a bunch of weight. When I hit that scale one morning and realized looking at the scale and it read it say 296 pounds, I well, I almost crapped my pants, to be honest with you. I just could not believe it. I had been travelling a lot and eating out a lot and eating terrible foods and usually eating very little during the day, and then a big dinner or an whole, entire Domino’s Pizza or something in the hotel room right before going to bed, which is a horrible thing to do.

That lead to obesity and it also led to the Type II Diabetes. Now when you get into that particular health situation, it costs money because you are spending money on all of these different drugs, because you not only end up with the diabetes medicine, you end up with high blood pressure and several other things you can get .. . High Cholesterol levels so you get on all of these different medicines and dad gum it, that's expensive. When I started my weight loss programs now as I got older I started thinking about what I need to do. What is my why? Why do I want to lose weight? It's not just to look good.

I'm married, I have two beautiful daughters. I'm not trying to impress the ladies, or anyone else. I got over that long ago. But as I start thinking about my Why now, my Why is because I want to be healthy. I'd like to live longer. I'm getting up in age. My parents didn't live as long as I would like them to have lived. My Grandparents also had health issues and passed away too early. I started looking at this with my children, who I love dearly, and want at some point in my life to have grandchildren and be able to play and love and run around and have fun with them and spoil the crap out of them and take them to Walt Disney World and take them to amusement parks and things like that and have fun with them. Play ball with them if it's a boy or a girl play ball with them, run with them. Just have a good time.

To do that, I have to be healthy. I have to live long enough to be able to do that because I don't know if my daughters are going to do it any time soon, have children so I can have grandchildren. So, in that respect, I have to live a long time to get where I can enjoy those bundles of joy. Right now, if I don't take care of myself I'm not going to be able to do that. The other is asking me, why that matters. I want to stop paying a heck of a lot of money for drugs. I want to save the 200-300 dollars per month I am spending on medicine. So if I just look at the why's for just losing weight, I realize that my ultimate why is for me is to not have to pay that money I am paying the doctor and to live longer and healthier. I want to be able to do a lot of things as I get older. I don't want to be restrained to a wheelchair or sit on the couch and things like that. I started thinking about your why and I started having my daughters and started raising my kids, I realized a lot of my why at that time became my daughters, my children. I wanted to succeed, to make more money, I wanted to have a better career so I could provide them with the things I never had. When you are thinking about your goals, I want you to start thinking about Why! Why do I want it.

You need to keep asking yourself - If you say, I want to be successful or make a lot of money, our double your income, WHY do you want to double your income.

I'm working with a client now who wants to double her income. We're talking about business and how she can do that, the different ways to do it. Let's focus on what your why is.

Why do you want to double your income? Yes, you want to make more money, you want to be able to spend your money and do different things, but Why? We got to talking and she said she wanted to be able to do this, or provide for women, to be a motivational person to other women of certain ages. And I asked why do you want to do that? She said, I want to be able to do it, so I can make a little more money and provide for my son. I want to help him go to college. So, as we start going into the why, we keep asking, why do you want to do that? Why is that important to you?

As you start asking yourself those questions, you start really defining, what is the real reason you are doing what you are doing. The reason I say that's really critical and the thing I found when I was talking to that motivational speaker that set me straight on this motivation as know your why because when you get frustrated, or get down, get extremely tired because things aren't going your way, instead of saying Screw It!

You start thinking, why am I doing this, that WHY is stuck in your brain, within your heart, you understand why you're doing this particular goal and what it's going to take, you are going to continue to do it. You’re going to continue to start fighting to be the success and to get the goal that you set. You are going to make that final decision to continue because you know why you’re doing that. It's really important to understand your Why.

It's not just because you want a new car. It's not just because you want to travel, It's not just because you want to have a big house. Bigger than the Jones' or whatever, or it could be, but it depends on what your why is. Everybody is different. What is your why?

Maybe your why is because you want to be better than the Jones' or have more than your neighbors. It's really your why and that's what is important. Knowing your why is very, very important. Not just in motivation but in life. So, you want to, when you are setting your goals, when you write down your goals you know what you want, specifically, you are very specific, you're being realistic, you set that deadline, you got your action plan. You working on the actions you have to take and you are taking actions. You're measuring it. You're tracking your progress as you go along. You're seeing that you're doing that. Every day you start thinking. Not only do I have the What and the How and now I have the Why. I know why I am doing what I am doing. It keeps you motivated. It keeps you wanting to go forward. It keeps you on that track and on that path to achieve your goals. As long as you know and understand what your why is, it will make traveling on that path to success and achieving your goal much easier. Make sure you sit down, you think about what is your why. Know you why and if you know your why, you'll be successful.

Michael Hyatt has a goal setting program he teaches and I was listening to his talk at the end of last year. His wife, Gloria, has a quote that she says, that he shared with us:

"When People Lose Their Why, They Lose Their Way." -Gloria Hyatt

That is a valid thought. If you don't remember or can understand what your Why is, you can lose your way while you're trying to achieve your goals. Get your Why! Find out what your why is and keep thinking about that. I like to keep My What, My How, and My Why available for me where I can read it and look at it on a daily basis. So, when I get where I'm frustrated and just say, "Is it really worth it?" I can say, "Yea, it really is, and this is why it's really worth it to me to keep doing what I am doing."

This is Tony Woodall with Goal Getting Podcast. Make sure along with the rest of the steps to Successful Goal Achievement, that you define your Why.

Know your Why and you won't lose your way as Gloria Hyatt says.

Have a great day. This is Tony Woodall with Goal Getting Podcast, I appreciate you listening and coming back every week and listening to the Goal Getting Podcast.

If you like what you are hearing, please go over to iTunes or Stitcher. I appreciate it, if you like it, leave a review, we would appreciate it. If there is anything you want to talk about or anything we can help you with you can go to our GoalGettingPodcast.com website and show notes.

We also have a comment section. Please leave a comment about the show or something you want to talk about, or about a goal you need help with. I do coaching. I'm happy to see if I can work something out to see if I can help. If you want to just tell everybody what your goal is or tell us what your successes are. We would love to hear your successes are as well.

Next episode we will be talking about visualization. Being able to visualize what you want to achieve and put yourself in it and how that can help you be more successful.

Thanks Again, I appreciate it, love listening with you and being part of your life and I appreciate you listening.

Again, Tony Woodall with Goal Getting Podcast. Check us out on GoalGettingPodcast.com. You guys make it a great day.

Weight Loss is a Tough Goal – A trained hypnotherapist from Hypnosis Motivation Institute. Norcross, GA, Founded by Dr. John Kappas in 1968.

Website Link on Show Notes at GoalGettingPodcast.com Hypnotherapy Internship for a year. Stop Smoking, Weight Loss, Relationship Counseling, Behavior Modification, etc.Studied Weight Loss Therapies – Hard because there are so many components to a person’s weight. Many psychological factors can affect a person’s weight. I saw and read several case studies for example of women, who had been sexually abused as a child that had taken that abuse inside and her subconscious mind had developed negative, limiting beliefs that affected her future relationships and her weight. One example was a severely obese woman, who had been abused by a family member. She had tried diets for years, joined gyms, etc., but never could lose the weight. Frustrated, she went to a hypnotherapist for to stop smoking, and in conversations with her therapist, it was revealed that she had been abused as a child by a family member and as they got into the therapy learned that she was overeating and her subconscious mind was generating triggers to her when she tried to enter a relationship with someone, it set her up to overeat or eat the wrong foods so that she was protected from men. If men didn’t desire her, she wouldn’t have to be in a relationship or worry about intimacy with men.Now, this is an extreme case and not the norm. Just because someone is overweight, doesn’t mean they were abused as a child or as an adult, but it does occur.There are other factors where the subconscious mind can be programmed with Negative and / or limiting beliefs that can affect a person’s weight. I was raised as a child at a time when several times on TV (they only had about 3 networks at the time, so you couldn’t get away from it easily) around dinner time, a commercial for United Way or CARE would come talking about the Starving Kids in Biafra, with photos and videos of emaciated, bloated bellies of little kids in Africa. Pleading for money to feed a child for 25 Cents a day.My parents and grandparents would often tell us kids at the dinner table: “Finish your plate, there are starving kids in Africa.” Kids don’t understand, and seeing that poor child on TV we didn’t want to end of like that, so we cleaned our plates, even if we weren’t hungry or hated the food (unless you had a dog in the house that you could secretly share your food with).The other common programming is when parents give their kids food to quiet them down, or get them to behave. Again, bad behavior on the parents part. As you get older, the subconscious mind is triggered to use food as a comforting release. Why do you think they call Wonderfully Fattening things Comfort Food! The subconscious mind can control a lot of these things that affect a person’s life, especially their weight. The problem is often just Habit - bad habits. We start doing something and then continue it because it becomes a habit.Habits are hard to change. I'm a Stress Eater. When I get stressed, Like a Tiger, I go on a HuntTiger Growl sound Attributed to Mike Koenigploaded: 07.05.10 | License: Attribution 3.0 | Recorded by Mike Koenig Down the street, around the corner, Nose in the air smelling Then it picks it up the scentAhh! Specialties!Dark Chocolate Walnut, Chocolate & Peanut Butter Chip!Ahh Chocolate!Time to feed the Tiger. I’ve been Reading

The Power of Habit - Why We Do What We Do in Life & Businessby Charles Duhigg Http://CharlesDuhigg.comGoalGettingBook.comWho is Charles Duhigg?My name is Charles Duhigg, and I’m a reporter for The New York Times. I’m also the author of the recently published book, The Power of Habit,about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies.I will be contacting Mr. Duhigg to try and get an interview with him on our podcast to talk more about habits. In his book he explains the Habit Loop – How Habits Work3 parts of a habit:CueRoutineRewardIn my Feeding My Tiger Habit:Cue I get stressedRoutine Tiger Starts the Hunt RewardMMMMMM! Sweet TreatChanging habits is hard. - Even last night after 3 months in new house, I turned out of BART to go towards my old house.“Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.” ― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And BusinessEasiest Way to changing a Habit is changing the Routine. CueI need to work on NOT letting things stress me out - Another episode Routine - Keep something healthier around that you like - put somewhere you have to go Hunt to get it I take a trip to the Eagle Cafe in the building next door (company café)Go Find “Hidden Apple” – or something else that is healthy Pick out a nice Apple or twoSet up a routine to prepareKnife & PlateSlice Apple into thin slices, to eat like chips or cookies….RewardMMMMMM - Sweet TreatThis is The key to Taming my Tiger, What about Yours? Do you have bad habits to affect your weight? Do bad habits effect other areas of your life.1. Determine what your Cue is! What Triggers you .2. Define what your current routine is 3. What is the Reward? What do you get out of the completion of the Routine? Change Habits by developing healthier routines. When you tame your tiger, You'll be happier and healthier. “Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.” ― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence, often quoted "What Gets Measured, Gets Done!"

Read the Essay on his website http://tompeters.com/columns/what-gets-measured-gets-done/ Checklists are crucial to ensuring success. Pilots perform pre-flight checks to ensure a safe flight. One of my favorite books and seminars is by Air Force Fighter Pilots that started the company, Afterburner, Inc. Their book Flawless Execution talks about the execution of ideas, projects and goals and using checklists to measure the effectiveness. It is also important in Goal Setting. Many companies recommend and use measurement tools to track goals. When I attended Xinnix, The Mortgage Academy, we were trained to use a measurement tool to track our success as loan officers. It used some of the same techniques that I learned in my training in Goal Setting and Success Achievement. I had been using these techniques for several years and they work really well. Http://GoalGettingPodcast.com/measure pick up copy of Goal Getting Measurement Worksheet. In No Lights, No Camera, Just Action, episode-7 - we talked about creating an action plan. In the Goal Setting Worksheet we offered at GoalGettingPodcast.com/action, we asked you to start defining the action steps you need to take to achieve the goals you set. Define the How, the action steps for each goal. Once you define what you need to do to achieve your goal, we can start creating the measurements to ensure that you can track them to completion. For those listening without the worksheet I am going to go through in some detail to give you an idea of what I am recommending be done. Remember, when you get to a computer, you can download your copy at GoalGettingPodcast.com/measure and then you can follow along later. Keys to Success with Tracking 1. Track it Daily. Each Worksheet is for one week, but you want to track what you do each day! 2. Major and Minor Steps. Set up Major Steps and Specific Action Steps, if necessary. 3. A Meaningful Measurement - Miles, Money, Motivation! 4. Goals for each Step / Task 5. Minimum Weekly Targets for each Step - What do I want to do this week? 6. Weekly Totals for each step - How did I do this week? 7. Daily Totals of all steps - How did I do today? 8. Totals for all steps for the Week - How much did I do this week. 9. Total Accumulated Measurements - Keep totals for entire length of time 10. Average Weekly Measurement - Average Total over the length of time. 11. Signature and Date - Commitment, when you sign your name, symbolizes your commitment.

Stop Setting Goals? Stephen Covey says you should stop setting goals. Stop Setting Goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. -- Stephen Covey I don't think he is saying to stop setting goals. What I believe he is try to say is that, don't bother if you aren't going to put forth the action required to achieve those goals.

"A Goal Without Action is Just a Wish! - Tony Woodall

Law of Attraction - Universe will get it to me. Don't worry about the How - It will come to me because I will attract it. God's Will - God will provide. It wasn't God's Will is often used as an excuse for not taking action. Flood Story - Neighbor - row boat - Helicopter - Pearly Gates - God will provide God and the "Infinite Intelligence will provide you with the ideas, the way, perhaps - but they won't tie the rope around your waist. When you have a goal, there are certain steps that will have to be done to achieve the goal. The Action Steps Let's break it down. Weight Loss 2 Basic Steps 1. Eat Less 2. Exercise More eL & eM Diet Burn more calories than I take in. Very simple concept, But, How do I do that? Create an Action Plan Personal trainers tell me weight loss is 80% what you eat and 20% exercise. There is a lot to go into a weight loss program and you should always check with your physician before starting one. After you've done that start setting up your action plan. The Doc may provide some ideas and recommendations based on the reason you need to lose weight. For example, if you are diabetic, you may need to eat a certain way, or monitor your blood sugar before and after workouts, so check and make sure you do what you need to do. Action Plan for Eating Less - What is your recommended calorie intake from your Doctor? Calorie Counting - very important - Tracking and Monitoring to keep on track Tools

My Fitness Pal - Great app that provides calories for a lot of foods. Bar Code scanner - database of most foods. Set Calorie Goal - My Fitness Pal keeps track and calculates calories and other things like carbs, fat, sodium, etc. On my last weight loss program I went through, I achieved a 40 pound loss with a 1200 calorie per day plan that was recommended by my doctor. The action plan that I had was to do the following: eat Less Maximum calories for each meal: 1. 300 c for breakfast Protein & Vegetables 2. 400 c for lunch Protein and vegetables - Salads with low calorie dressing, gluten free bread slice 3. 300 c for dinner Protein & Vegetables 4. 200 c snack - Fruit, yogurt That sounds like a very limited amount of calories and it is. It is probably the lowest that you should do. In these calories it is important to limit the amount of fats and carbs as much as possible. exercise More Determine the amount of Calorie Deficit you need to achieve your weight loss goals. Then work to achieve that deficit. It takes 3500 Calories to burn 1 pound of fat. Depending on the amount of time you are working with, determine the amount you need to burn per day to lose your weight goal. Then you can set up your Action Plan. If you need to burn 500 Calories per day more than you take in, and assuming your calorie intake is 1200, that means you will need to burn about 1700 calories per day. You will need to determine "steps" (pun intended) you need to take to achieve that goal. I was burning about 1600 - 1700 calories per day on the elliptical trainer. I also did a lot of walking in San Francisco around our office. My steps for my exercise More plan was: 1. Go to the gym 4 days per week (M-Th) 2. Do 2 hours on the elliptical (about 8 miles) 3. Walk 5+ miles Saturday & Sunday morning 4. Park near the end of the Bart Parking Lot to walk further Following these action steps, I was able to lose 40 Pounds in 16 weeks. I won 2nd place in our Biggest Loser contest at work. Get a copy of the Goal Setting Worksheet at GoalGettingPodcast.com/action

Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill is a fantastic book describing how the Devil uses fears to destroy your success.

In the book, Hill discusses with the Devil how he was able to control people to keep them for being successful.

He also discussed the 6 Ghosts of Fear.

The Devil said the Fear of Poverty, Criticism, Ill Health, Loss of Love, Old Age, and Death are his greatest tools.

The Fear of Failure and Fear of Success are just minor variances of these.

Hill states that the Devils 2 biggest Fears that he uses are the fear of Poverty & The Fear of Death.

The most devastating is The Fear of Poverty. This is the most destructive fear of them all.

It robs people of accurate thought, kills self-reliance, paralyzes creativity, faculty of reason, destroys imagination, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, leads to procrastination, destroys ambition, and invites other things including unhappiness.

I think this is one fear that most people, myself included, has faced at one time or another.

This fear is put into our subconscious mind usually very early, by caring people who learned it from their families or caretakers. I was raised by my grandparents who lived through the Great Depression. We recently went through the 2nd depression, from 2007 - 2014. The fear of poverty has killed many a dream.

Many people have great ideas or big dreams. They have goals they want to achieve, they have Dreams about things they can create, but never do, because the fear of poverty, fear of not being able to support themselves or their family prevents them from pursuing those dreams, those goals.

As I mentioned, I am a podcaster. This, however isn't my first entry into podcasting.

I heard about podcasting in 2004. I thought, what a great idea. This will replace Radio some day. In 2005, I was very successful, doing well financially. I lost my position, became a loan officer in 2006 worked hard, in 2007 the market started crashing, things started getting rough. No money coming in, kids in college, bought a franchise, the market there tanked as well because of the economy. I had to shut the business. No money coming in, had to work where I could get it, had to get rid of my house, started worrying about paying bills, being broke, losing everything. I developed the Fear of Poverty. Couldn't think straight, lost energy, lost initiative. I forgot a lot of things. One was podcasting.

How To Overcome the Fear of Poverty & other limiting beliefs?

Shoo Bee - I've told the story of my fear of bees before. I once abandoned a moving car when I noticed a bee was flying around inside.

I was terrified of bees, UNTIL, one of my martial arts teachers told us that bees were the strongest insect on earth. It was so strong it could move a human being several feet without even touching it.

Shoo Be-liefs that are negative and the Fears that create them.

Like Bees, All fears are small -

I have a new philosophy on Bees and Be-liefs these days. When either one comes around me, I just point my finger at it and say "Shoo Bee" and it does. The Bee and the negative Bee-lief usually do go away.

Fear(s) cause(s) us to not Do things we want to do. They create Limiting Beliefs in our Subconscious Mind.

Limiting Beliefs can be overcome by changing our State of Mind. Fears can be overcome by changing our State Of Mind!

Do Be - Definite in Your Purpose.

Know What You Want and How You Are Going to Get There. Be clear in your own mind and do what it takes to achieve the goals you've set. Definiteness of purpose will keep you on your road to your goals.

Clearly Defined, Written Goals and Defined Action Plans will eliminate the Fears.

Do Be - Demanding! Not of people, but of Life.

Believe you can achieve what you want, that life will provide you what you want. Demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly that, with no substitutes.

Remember your dominating thoughts attract, through definite laws of nature. Be Careful what your thoughts dwell upon.

TUT.com - Thoughts Become Things

The Law of Attraction - The Secret! It wasn't really a Secret! It was forgotten!

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a great book about the Law of Attraction and how you cna use it to be demanding of life.

Do What it Takes

Know what you want and what it takes to get there and then Create Action Steps. Then, Do the Steps it Takes to achieve! – Execute on it! - Just Do it!

When I was reminded about podcasting, I knew I had to get back into it so I could share my passion about Goal Setting and helping people Get the Goals They Set. I set my mind with a definiteness of purpose. I defined what I wanted to do, I created the action plan and then I took the Action.

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-- Ernest Hemingway"]

Don't just do stuff, but do the actions needed to be successful.

To Summarize:

Shoo Bee-liefs that are limiting, and Fears.

Do Be Definite with Purpose

Do Be Demanding in Your Wants from Life

Do It – Now! Action not motion

Does Passion Drive You?

Are you living a Passionate Life? Does Passion Drive You? You should have a passion for 3 things in your life:

1. Labor - Love what you do, or don't do it.2. Love - Find a person with your passions to share your life with.3. Life - Have a passion FOR life. You never know when you will leave this world. Enjoy life. If you have something you want to do, do it now! There may not be a tomorrow.Live a Passionate Life

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A Goal without a dealine is just a wish!

It might get done, it might not. There isn't a sense of urgency.

I Wanna Be A Rock Star! Was your goal to be a Rock Star or Rap Star as a kid? It was mine! I got a Screaming Red Electric Guitar for Christmas when I was 12. I didn't become the rock star I wanted to be. But, back then I didn't know about setting goals? If you could do something that would give you a 42 % Greater Chance of getting the Job you want, Would You Do It? If you could do something that would give you an 42% advantage over other people to achieve your goal, Would You Do It? If you could do something that would give you a Greater Advantage to Achieve Any of Your Goals, Would You Do It? Today I am going to share with you 4 Scientifically Proven Things You Can Do to give yourself a greater Advantage to Be A Rock Star at whatever you want to Achieve! In 1953, Yale University Study of Goals Found that only 3% of the graduating class had specific written goals for the future. 20 Years later that group was making 10% more than the group with no goals. I learned this from motivational speakers for many, many years in their speeches. I used it too! It Never Happened! No Such Study Ever Conducted, At Yale or Harvard. In 2007, Dr. Gail Matthews at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA - realized this type of study needed to be done. She and a team of researchers tested 4 Key Beliefs in Goal Setting. 5 Groups. Group 1 - THINK ABOUT THEIR GOALS they want to achieve over the next 4 weeks Group 2 - WRITE YOUR GOALS DOWN - Specific goals to achieve in the next 4 weeks Group 3 - WRITE GOALS DOWN & Create ACTION PLANS Group 4 - WRITE GOALS DOWN, Create ACTION PLANS & Send Plans to SUPPORTIVE FRIEND Group 5 - WRITE GOALS DOWN, Create ACTION PLANS & Send Plans AND PROGRESS REPORTS to SUPPORTIVE FRIEND. SHOW CHART 1 - Unwritten Goals - Lowest Chances of Achievement 2 - Written Goals - Greater Chance 3. - Written Goals with Written Action Plan The next 2 Steps show remarkable increased Chances of Success: 4. - Adding Accountability - Supportive Friend - Mentor - Master Mind Group. 5. - Adding Measurement - Weekly Progress Reports This Study shows Empirical Proof that these 4 Steps in Goal Setting will improve your chances 1. Write Your Goals Down Clearly defined written goals. 2. Create An Action Plan Goal w/o action is just a Wish? 3. Have an Accountability Partner Master Mind -Think & Grow Rich 4. Measure Your Progress What gets measured gets done! Doing these 4 Things Will Greatly Improve Your Chances of Being A Rock Star at whatever you do!