How to Add Momentum to Your Goals
I want to give you a couple of powerful ideas on how to give your new goals some momentum.
Here are the simple steps I take every year to really get some power behind my goals.
1. Set my goals in all areas of my life: professional, financial, mental, physical, family, and social.
2. Look for an overarching theme. This is usually something that links many of the goals together.
3. Pick an appropriate symbol for the theme.
For example, in 2006 I had the Year of the summit, because climbing the mountain was a physical goal as well as metaphorical goal of hitting team goals, sales goals, etc. In 2005, I had the Year of the House, which was the year that I invested in my first home. In 2004, it was the Year of the Pyramid as I built my Financial Pyramid and paid off $20,000 in Credit Card debt, no small feat, much like the building of the pyramids in Egypt.
Set your goals, find a theme, pick a symbol, and then immerse yourself, surround yourself, bury yourself in the symbol, in note cards, in posters, change your screen saver to scroll your year’s name. Change the passwords of your email account, of your voicemail, of all things that you use often and hold dear.
Seem fanatical? Yes, I suppose it does. Although, shouldn’t we be fanatical about our goals? If we didn’t want to really hit them, why did we set them in the first place?
Your goal must be meaningful to you, so I’m not saying you should brainwash yourself with the sales quota your company or manager told you should be your goal. I’m talking about what you hold most dear to your heart, because if you allow what is in your heart to enter your brain, amazing things will begin to happen. It won’t happen overnight. It takes time to let your subconscious guide you towards your goals, but trust yourself, trust that you CAN do anything. Be a fanatic.
Post your goals in secret code if you want, just make sure that you have them where you can see them. Put up note cards and laminated sheets of paper on the bathroom mirror, on the corner of the tv screen, on your nightstand, on the steering wheel of your car, on your computer, and where ever else your imagination finds suitable.
When you do these things, you will enter a very small percentage of the masses, a group of elite goal hitting machines.
Be Free!
Tom Weber
VP of Sales
I want to thank you for your article… It really resonates with me and I am going to go through the process this sometime before the end of this weekend. I think my wife is really going to groove on it too. Thanks for all that you do Tom. It is exciting to be involved in a company with so many jolly souls
Comment by Joe Paprocki — August 21, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Tom,This is a wonderful,very useful article.
I am going to remember this:”If you allow what is in your heart to enter your brain, amazing things will begin to happen.”
This statement really hit home; I believe it,and I am going to follow your advice.
Thanks again.
Barbara
Comment by Barbara J — September 24, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
You are welcome Joe and Barbara! Its fun to see you enjoying the article and thanks for the comments.
Comment by Tom — October 5, 2009 @ 11:40 pm