Setting a timeline to achieve your goals - a simple way to supercharge your efforts!

Creating a Timeline to Complete Your Goals
Have you set a timeline to complete your goals? If you have been struggling to reach your goals you might find it helpful to develop a timeline that charts exactly when you will complete each step along the path to your goal.

Creating a timeline for completing your goals is a powerful way to keep your focus on what is important right now – and it is not as hard as you might think! Follow the steps I share below and you too can develop a bullet-proof plan to reach your goals.

Too many people resist setting time-based goals because they feel that life should simply flow and that everything happens in it’s own time and at it’s own pace. But the reality is that those people never seem to actually reach the goals that they set for themselves. They end up waiting for the universe to deliver their desires. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more.

You don’t want to wait for your desires, do you? I didn’t think so!

By creating a timeline for completing your goals you eliminate those problems. A timeline keeps you on track and lets you stay focused on doing the ‘next thing’. The ‘next thing’ is what separates dreamers from achievers. If you know the next step along your path, and you know when you want to reach that next step in relation to your big goal, it becomes easier to manage your efforts.

Know Your End Result
Start by being crystal clear about your end result. It is hard to complete a goal if you don’t know what that goal looks like. Know exactly what you want to achieve. Then decide when you want to achieve that goal by.  Actually look at your calendar and pick a date that you want to be successful by.

So now you know exactly what you want and you know exactly when you want to have it by. That’s a great start! Just doing those two things – getting clear about your goal and setting a completion date – put you miles ahead of everyone else struggling to achieve their goals.

Break It Down
Your next step is to look at your desired end result and to identify the stepping stones along the path to your goal. Depending on your goal, you can do this one of two ways. Some goals have a linear progression of actions and achievements that you can chart, sort of like steps on a staircase. First you have to reach step one, then step two, then step three and so on. For example, if your goal is to get a college degree there are requirements and steps you have to take along the way. You have to complete some courses before taking others. Your skill builds as you move toward your desired end result. Lots of goals are like this.

Other goals, like losing weight, are more cumulative. In other words, once you identify the actions you need to take, you keep doing the same thing over and over until you reach your goal. Goals like these can be broken down into increments. If your goal is to lose 50 pounds by December 31, you could break your goal down into monthly mini-goals.

Create Your Timeline
However you break down your goal, go ahead and create an actual timeline on a piece of paper that maps out your journey. Draw a line across the paper. Label the left end of your line ‘NOW” and label the right end of your line with your desired end result. “Lost 50 pounds” or “Master’s Degree” or “New Car”. Whatever your goal is.

So now you have a line that stretches from ‘now’ to the completion of your goal. All that is left is to plug in the steps along the way. Each point on your timeline becomes a mini goal that you work towards.

Look at your desired end result and decide how you can break your big goal down into mini-goals and put those mini goals on your timeline. Now simply begin working toward the first point on your timeline. When you reach it, begin working toward the second and so on. Before you know it you will be on the verge of seeing your goal realized.

Once you set a timeline to complete your goals you will see a dramatic shift in the way you approach your goals. As you meet each step or point on your timeline, your steady progress reinforces your desire to succeed and you find yourself taking more and more right actions. Completing your goals becomes certain!

Go ahead and map out your own timeline for completing your goals. It is a simple process that can make achieving your goals far more likely!

Choosing your goals isn't always easy!

You would think that choosing your goals would be easy, right? After all, you know what you want. You know what you want your life to look like.

The problem is that most of us have many, many wants and desires, and it can be hard to decide which ones to work on. We want so much, in so many areas of our lives, that it can feel overwhelming!

Some people get stuck right here in the goal setting process, because with so many desires they wind up feeling helpless and don’t make progress toward any of their desires. Other people try to do everything at once – they try to transform their entire life overnight – and they wind up crashing and burning because they spread themselves to thin.

Choosing your goals, deciding which of your wants and desires to focus on right now, doesn’t have to be a painful process. Not if you approach the process with your end result in mind.

What is your end result? Your end result is what you want your life to look and feel like tomorrow and the next day and every day after that. Imagine your life so complete in every way that you can’t think of a single desire… that is your desired end result!

So to get there, to reach the life that you envision for yourself, you must start somewhere. I always recommend that you begin with the goal that, when you reach it, will make the biggest difference in your life. The goal that you feel the strongest about.

The goals that you choose to reach first will be the goals that you have the strongest reason WHY for. Because ‘why’ you want to reach a goal has a tremendous affect on whether or not you actually reach that goal. A strong reason ‘why’ you want to achieve your goal will always motivate you to do more, to take more action, and to keep going when life throws challenges in your path.

Don’t allow yourself to get stuck when choosing your goals. Here is a simple goal setting exercise that will help you. Make a list of those things that you want to achieve, then next to each one write the reasons why you want to reach that goal. Ask yourself what reaching that goal will mean in your life. Do this for each of the things that you wrote down. Which of your goals resonates with you the most deeply? Which are you the most passionate about reaching?

Those are the goals you should be making plans to achieve first!

Of course, choosing your goals is just the first step, but as the saying goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”  Take that step today! Choose your goals and start creating the life that you truly want!

How to believe that you can succeed!

Do you believe that you can succeed?

That is probably the most important question that you can ask yourself, because if you don’t believe in your own abilities, you are always going to struggle to reach your goals. Your success in life starts with your belief that you can succeed.

So where does that belief come from? How can you hold the belief that you can succeed… even when you never have before?

The problem is that doing something new, reaching out towards a new goal, can be scary. All sorts of thoughts and emotions can come up and distract you from reaching your goal. You begin to experience doubt, worry, and confusion. You wonder if you are really capable of reaching this goal. This starts a downward spiral that keeps you from ever having the belief in yourself that you need.

But you can change that!

Start by looking at your goal and answering these questions:

1. Has anyone else ever done this before?

Chances are that someone, somewhere in this big world, has achieved something quite similar to what you want to achieve, right? So that means that your goal is doable! You are capable of achieving the same things as most of the people on this planet.

2. Have you ever done something similar?

If so, great! You have already proven to yourself that you can learn new things! If not, you have probably already accomplished some amazing things. Did you learn to ride a bicycle? Drive a car? Balance a checkbook? Use a computer? All of those are amazing skills! Now you simply ‘learn’ the new skills that you need to reach your goal. Reviewing your past successes is often a great way to build up your belief in yourself.

3. Why do you want it?

This is a big question, but if you want to know how to believe that you can succeed, you have to be able to answer it. If you have a strong reason why you want something, your belief that you can succeed is strengthened. And the stronger your belief in yourself, the more you will be willing to do in order to realize your goal.

Believe in yourself and your ‘self’ will never let you down! Know that there will be ups and downs in the road toward your dreams, but also know that as long as you keep moving forward you will eventually get there!

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Become your own success coach!

Would you like to learn how to reach your goals faster? How to blast through those barriers to your success? Then you absolutely need to learn to become your own success coach, you need to learn to become your own mentor.

Why?

Because there is one quality that the top achievers in every field share, that enables them to reach the levels of success that they do. Without exception, every one of them has learned how to be their own success coach, how to be their own best source of motivation.

You see, the purpose of coaching is to bring a new perspective to your efforts, and in the beginning you might need a lot of coaching, a lot of fresh perspective. You are too close to your own problems and weaknesses to see them clearly. You are too attached to certain outcomes to be able to make empowering decisions.

This is where someone outside of yourself can help. They can objectively point out areas where you can improve, or show you how to make better use of your time and energy. Yes, having a mentor or coach is important. Having one can make the critical difference between reaching your goal and continuing to struggle.

You should have one if you are serious about breaking through to the next level in your own life. (Are you ready for a breakthrough? You might want to look at this page that describes some of my more popular life coach and success coaching options.)

But the ultimate goal of any coach or mentor is to help you train yourself to actually coach yourself. To learn how to see your own life clearly and how to make your own empowered decisions that move you into the life you design for yourself.

That’s where your power lies!

You can begin to do this right now, without waiting. All that’s required is that you keep an open mind and decide to be totally honest with yourself… about yourself.

Begin trusting your inner feelings, and taking action on those thoughts that ‘feel’ right. How many times in the past have you discovered after the fact that your original impulse was the right one? But you talked yourself out of it? Too many times, I’m sure. I know I have.

But that only happens because you ignore the inner feelings that come up.

This is where you can practice coaching yourself and allowing your inner mentor to be heard.

This is where you can play the ‘What would my coach say?” game.

Imagine that you have hired the worlds BEST success coach. You have her on speed dial and she is available 24 hours a day, any time that you have a problem.

When a situation arises and you face a difficult decision, what would you do? You would call your coach, right? You’d explain the situation and she would share some advice.

So, in this game, you are going to IMAGINE that you have called your coach, and you are going to IMAGINE what guidance she would give you.

Ask yourself the question, “What would my coach say?”

“What guidance would she give me in this situation?”

Then listen for the answers from within yourself.

The truth is that most of the time you already know the best choice, the best path to take. Your inner mentor is the most powerful mentor on the face of the planet. You know better than anyone else exactly what you want your life to look like, and you know better than anyone what you have to do next to get there.

Practice listening to your own inner mentor. Allow your inner coach to be heard.

When you do, you will find yourself moving closer and closer to your dreams!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Success Coach, Author,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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How to set goals to attract success and manifest abundance.

Here we go! Another year, another wonderful series of opportunities for you to reach out and claim your dreams!  Yes, it’s goal setting time!

No matter what happened in your life last year, no matter what challenges you faced, or what your results were, you CAN make this year a fantastic year!

You can make this the year that you attract the success you desire, the year that you manifest the abundance you crave!

The key is in your mindset!

Master your mindset and you will no longer be wondering HOW to create your best year ever… you will be LIVING your best year ever!

The truth is that much of your ability to attract success or manifest abundance in your life begins and ends with your mental attitude. Which means that if you are struggling with success or abundance or anything else you are trying to create in your life, the solution to your challenge lies in your mindset as well.

Here are 4 tips from the Inner Circle Success Library to help you set goals that will empower you to attract success and abundance:

1. Define Your Dream – Every goal you set, every dream you pursue should be crystal clear in your mind. The more defined and detailed your dream, the more powerful your manifesting ability becomes. You should know every last detail of your dream or goal.
2. Write It Down – Do you remember the last 5 great ideas that you had? You would if you had written them down! Get in the habit of writing down everything – your goals and dreams, your to-do lists, your brilliant ideas, your silly ideas… Get them down before they disappear.
3. Take Action Every Day – There is something you can do everyday to move you closer to your dreams. Remember, even small actions can produce tremendous results! Especially on those days when you ‘don’t feel like it’!! Do something every day!
4. Be Bold – Go after your biggest dream. Doing anything less weakens you and lessens your power to focus. If you are not going after your biggest dream it will hang over your head dragging you down… whatever excuses you create to justify not pursuing that dream will weigh on you and influence all of your decisions and actions. Either move towards your big dream, or set it aside and free up the energy and attention you devote to it.

Start today, right now, and you can begin creating a life of success and abundance. Learning how to set goals doesn’t have to be a scary process. The most important thing is to get those dreams down on paper so you can work with them and begin planning to attract success!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Success Coach, Speaker
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Did you ever wonder what separates those people who ‘wish’ for success and those who enjoy success?  I think actor Will Smith hits the nail on the head in this video interview.

What would your life be like if you applied these concepts on a daily basis? Your mindset will always determine your results in life. Change your mindset and you will change your results!

Peace,

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When it comes to dreams and goals I have one hard and fast rule…

There is no dream too big!

That’s right!, your dreams are your own.  One of the greatest truths that we have discovered is that YOU get to decide what you want to become or experience in your own life.  You get to choose your own path through life by choosing which of your desires to go after.

People around you, like your friends and family, can put labels on your dreams and tell you that they are too ‘big’ or too ‘small’ or some other such nonsense, but only YOU get to decide the true importance of your dreams.

YOU label your dreams as important the moment you decide to go after them.

It is your yearning, your desire to improve your life situation that moves you to take action and to make your dreams a reality. You get to decide which dreams you want to create in your life.  Nobody else.  You get to decide which of your dreams are big ones and worth going after.

It is those big dreams that you will find yourself pouring your energy into.  It is those big dreams that keep you awake at night and get you out of bed early in the morning that have the power to come true.  Those big dreams are the ones you will be willing to make sacrifices to achieve.

The good news is that your dreams become big dreams the moment you decide to achieve them.  Once you commit yourself to bringing a dream into reality you begin to unlock your full potential and power.

Here are some questions to help you start thinking about those big dreams.

• What area(s) of your life are you struggling in?
• Where do you need to make changes?
• Are they big changes?
• Little changes?
• How will your life improve if you make these changes?
• What will happen if you don’t make these changes?

… and probably the most important question of all…

• When are you going to make those changes?

Asking yourself questions like these is an excellent way to get clear about what is really important to you.

Don’t let the size or apparent difficulty of your dream hold you back either! The world is full of stories of women and men who overcame tremendous obstacles to achieve their dreams.  YOU can too.

The secret, if there is such a thing, is simply to make up your mind – to decide – that your dream is worth pursuing.  The flip side of this secret is that you will always have a hard time achieving those goals and dreams that aren’t important to YOU.

So decide what is important to you and begin moving towards YOUR dreams.  You will be surprised at how the universe responds when you commit yourself to improving your life.

Peace,

p.s. I invite you to take a moment and share some of your biggest dreams and goals with other readers by leaving a comment below.

Here’s a quick question for you: How many times have you wished you could make better decisions? Or that you could get better results from the decisions that you do make? Or that you didn’t have to make so many decisions in the first place?

These are common frustrations; frustrations that can prevent you from reaching your goals and dreams.

You can eliminate these frustrations by simply deciding, right now, to make better decisions.

That’s right. Simply decide that from this point on you will make better decisions.

You might scoff at the simplicity of this technique, but this is the essence of the law of attraction. Once YOU decide to make better decisions, you will begin making better decisions.

Successful people in every field understand this and apply it either consciously or unconsciously. They don’t doubt their decisions. They know, on a deep, inner level, that each decision they make is made with the full intention and power of their desire to achieve their goals and dreams.

What happens to many of us is that we allow ourselves to fall into a cycle of doubt and worry. Each decision that we make is agonizing and painful. We’re plagued by ‘what ifs’ and we constantly worry about making the wrong decision.

This is a prime example of the law of attraction in action. Because you doubt your decision making ability, you allow all those fears and possibilities to get in your way. You literally attract them to yourself. You become unable to base your decisions on facts and reason and instead base them on what are really nothing more than fantasies and imaginary troubles.

The key to learning to make good decisions is to simply state your intention to do so – to yourself. Write your intention to become a good decision maker down, make it your mantra, repeat it to yourself over and over. Integrate it into your daily affirmations, (you are using daily affirmations, right?)

Remember, you didn’t learn to doubt your decisions overnight, it was a slow, gradual process. But, once you begin this process of reinforcing your decision making skills you will notice a change in the way that you approach decision making. You will become more confident. It will become easier to make decisions. You may even find yourself enjoying making decisions.

It all begins with you and your intention to succeed. Once you make success your destination you will find yourself attracting the tools and inner resources that you need to succeed!

Take action today! Decide that you always make the best decisions for your self and your future!

Peace,

Are you writing down your goals? If you are… That’s great! Keep it up!

If you are not, if you have put off putting your goals and dreams on paper, you are cheating yourself out of the very success that you claim to want…

It sounds elementary, but quite often it’s the basic things that make or break your success in life, and writing down your goals is one of those things.

Goal setting is actually a part of the first key to creating your ideal life – knowing exactly what you want. Knowing where you want to go is essential to succeeding! In anything! From improving your relationships to increasing your abundance. I spend a lot of time on this concept in my workshops and seminars, but the reality is that you can’t get what you don’t aim for.

What happens to many people is that they have a vague notion of what they want and they head in that general direction, but they meander. They take lots of action and seem to do all the right things, but they never get closer to their goals.

Has this ever happened to you?

It doesn’t have to!

One of the most powerful ways that you have to increase your odds of achieving your goals is to ‘write them down’. This is really important… did you know that according to Brian Tracy in his book, “Goals”, that less than 3% of people actually write down their goals. Is it any wonder why so many people are frustrated and unsuccessful?

What’s more amazing is that those 3% are generally found in the top tiers of business and personal success.
So it’s important that you begin this process, right now. Don’t just nod your head and say “Yup, sounds like a great idea Bob, I’ll have to do that sometime.”

Find a way that works for you but do it now. Start with a list of 10 goals and work your way up to 100 goals. You should have goals in every area of your life:

Look at all aspects of your life and decide what you want it to look like… then write it down!

Taking this action right now will solidify your dreams in your mind and help you begin to discover new ways of reaching those goals.

Take a moment now and share your plans to put your goals on paper! Just click on the comment link and add your comment.