By Monica Simpson

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I bet the fulfillment of your goals would leave the world more peaceful, your family deeply connected and your social life on the upswing. Your romantic, physical, spiritual and financial experiences would also be much more satisfying.

Road to goals success starts with action

Congratulations on thinking highly enough of yourself to know that you can make a positive difference, that you can advance. I hope that you know the actions that you must take to achieve your goals. If not, another 365 days could pass without you causing the outcomes that you promised yourself at the start of the year.


Be kind to yourself. Love yourself. Don’t let be another fruitless year. Here’s help. But, don’t stop at reading these 10 easy steps to goals achievement. Reading alone doesn’t count. Implement the steps, including the results measurement part. To begin:

• Type your top three to five goals into a Word or Excel document. You could also write your goals in a journal or spiral notebook. It’s important to use a document that you can return to throughout the year. It’s also important that you write your goals down.
• Give definition to your goals. If you practice awareness, that definition may have come to your through a night dream or a vision.
• When you give definition to your goals, you’ll see colors, hear sounds and sense emotions that you’ll feel after your goals become reality. Don’t just think about your goals, add specific features to your goals when you think about them.
•  See your goals in pictures. This helps to move goals beyond vague wishes, turning them into detailed or defined experiences.

More right action to reach goals

• Research the resources and training that you might need. For example, if you want to find a cure for schizophrenia or another mental illness, research current studies and laboratory work that’s being done in search of a cure.
• Find out what licenses you need. Read mental health research reports. Join the right mental health associations.
• Learn as much as you can about patients and therapists who are dealing with the illness. If you back out on the research step of your goals, you may not care enough about the goals to fulfill them.
• Put the specific actions that you will take to achieve your goals into print. If you do this right, you should have at least eight action steps beneath each of your goals. Let’s say you want to sale more than 200 copies of your books a week.
• Specific action steps could include scheduling 10 radio interviews a week, holding 10 private Facebook and Twitter book club discussions a week, at least once a week writing and publishing one new blog posts at your book blog and hiring three marketing agencies to conduct social media, print and offline book marketing initiatives for you.

Check out these extra easy action steps

• As a tip, some action steps might include saying “good-bye” to people who continuously choose to think and harbor toxic thoughts. Measure these actions. Create a column next to the specific action steps that you will take that’s titled “Results”. Update your results throughout the year. Set aside time to actually sit down and measure the results of your actions. This way, you’ll know early if and where you need to make changes.
• Create a contact list. People to add to the list include influencers in the industry or market that tie into your goals. Add these people’s names, companies, email addresses and telephone numbers to the contact list. Keep in touch with these people at least once a quarter.
• Track your dreams. They may offer clues to actions that you can take to reach your goals sooner. Dreams can also reveal changes that you need to make to stay on course.
• Count your blessings. This one sounds simple, but it has impact. The energy of appreciation is powerful.

Keep hidden motivations in sight

• Stay flexible. Listen to others when they share insights about you, the way that you think and habits that you engage in. Insights that people who care about you share, people who go after their own goals, could sharpen your resolve and stir your passions when you’re starting to doubt that your goals will come true.
• Encourage and motivate yourself. Listen to deep meditation tapes. Set your radio dial to stations that play uplifting or inspiring music. Other ways to encourage and motivate yourself include hanging empowering quotes and images on your apartment or house walls. Reading articles and books that boost your energy and lift your spirits is also effective.

Inside you, there is a huge dream. It’s so big that you may have spent several years repressing the dream, pushing it away and telling yourself that the dream isn’t yours. It is.

You don’t believe the dream is yours because you think you don’t have what it takes to fulfill the dream. It’s time you stopped telling yourself that lie.

You hold the keys to your goals

You do have what it takes to fulfill your huge dreams. You have what it takes to achieve your goals. Achieving your goals puts you closer to the fulfillment of your life’s big dream. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Imagine this. What if it’s going to take 40 years for you to complete the steps that lead you into your life’s huge dream?

Skip a step, delay taking the actions that align with your spiritual, personal, financial and relationship goals for a month, just a single month, and you could add another two years to the time it takes to enter your life’s huge dream.

It’s not just about time. You won’t reach lasting happiness if you leave a big gap in your heart. You won’t reach lasting serenity and confidence if you keep ignoring your true self. Feeding your false self, flesh or ego will find your chasing wind. You’ll go from one short term pick-up to another, never enjoying lasting happiness.

This is the year to leave no stone unturned. This is the year to succeed. Throughout the year, recall these steps that can help you fulfill your oals. Advance, action by action.


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