By: Shantanu Das Sharma, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group
Quick recap of what we have covered in Part 39
The Agency Leader Who Dared Set ‘Unrealistic’ Targets
Design Your Life Exercise
Making the Dream Possible and Real
KOLKATA: Have you designed all the things that you want to create in your life? Great! At this stage, what you have done is to put all your dreams down on paper. The only way for you to manifest your major goals into reality is to take it through a seven-step goal achievement process! These seven steps are designed to help you move the goal from Dream to Possibility, and then to Realization. So what I want you to do is to look at all the goals you have written down and to make sure that you have put a deadline on each one of them. Now, re-categorize your goals by putting them into the various time frames of one year, five years, ten years and fifteen years. You can do this on the worksheet given below.
Goals within One Year
Personal Development Deadline Three action steps (36 hours)
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Career & business Deadline Three action steps (36 hours)
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Wealth & lifestyle Deadline Three action steps (36 hours)
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Family & Friends Deadline Three action steps (36 hours)
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Contribution Deadline Three action steps (36 hours)
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Take On a 36-hour Challenge
They say that taking the first step is the most difficult one. We are often held back by inertia. The moment we start taking the first few steps towards a goal, we will gain momentum and continue on until we realize it. What has been an extremely powerful strategy for the hundreds of participants that have gone through the ‘NLP+ Patterns of Excellence’ programs (and also for me), is that for every goal we write down, we act on three action steps within 36 hours of setting the goal.
No matter what goal it is, or how long term it is, there are definitely three steps you can take within 36 hours that will move you towards your goal. It is a very powerful process… one of the most powerful steps you take on this process involves putting yourself on the line by making a commitment to other people. Or it involves committing some money. By doing this, you are telling your brain that you are serious about the time you are investing.
If your goal is to lose 5 kg in the next three months, what are three steps you can take within 36 hours to commit yourself? You could give away all your clothes and go out and replace it with a wardrobe four sizes smaller. You could sign up for an aerobics class and put down a deposit. You could go and buy a book on ‘healthy eating’ and read and follow it religiously. There was a participant who set a goal of quitting and starting his own business in two years’ time. Despite this being a long-term goal, he sat down and wrote a business plan, registered his business with Rs.500 and signed up for a part-time course in business management. All within 36 hours. If your dream is to buy a Ferrari in five years’ time, you could go down to the showroom right away to get a brochure and take a test drive. So, write down your 36-hour action plan for each of your major one-year goals.
Do it now!
Goals within Five Years
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Goals within Ten Years
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Goals within Fifteen Years
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Now, take all your major one-year goals and put them through the seven-step goal achievement process. You can do this in the worksheets provided.
Seven-Step Goal Achievement Process
1 What do you want specifically? What is the deadline?
2 Who can you model for excellence?
3 What specific actions/steps do you need to take to get there?
What are your deadlines? Schedule this in your organizer now!
4 What resources would you need? (people, money, talent, skills etc…)
5 What are 3 action steps to take within 36 hours?
6 Why must you achieve this goal?
7 Visualize this goal daily.
Seven-Step Goal Achievement Process Worksheet
1 What do you want specifically? What is the deadline?
2 Who can you model for excellence?
3 What specific action steps do you need to take to get there? What are your deadlines? Schedule this in your organizer now!
4 What resources do you need? (people, money, talent, skills etc…)
5 What are 3 action steps to take within 36 hours?
6 Why must you achieve this goal?
7 Visualize this goal daily.
The Power of Why
The next step is to list down all the reasons why you must achieve this goal. In fact, I believe the ‘why’ is more important than the ‘how’. When you know why you want something bad enough, you will eventually find out how to do it. So, why is it important for you to achieve this goal? Again, all your reasons ‘why’ should be in line with your top values. Visualization: Emotionally
Charging Up Your Goals
This final step is an extremely powerful one. Remember again: what drives our actions daily is not logic but the emotional states we are in. Logically you may want to build your company to be the next Fortune 500 but if you are not in a state of high excitement, you will keep putting it off. So you must keep getting yourself in a resourceful state by emotionally charging up your goals. Do it daily! I personally love to do this just before I sleep every night. What you do is to take one major goal a night and to visualize yourself in the future already achieving it. As you imagine the experience in your mind, increase the intensity of the state by shifting your driver sub-modalities.
Get associated into the experience and make the picture bigger, closer and brighter. Make it into a movie and make the sounds loud and in full stereo. Hear what you hear around you as you are achieving this goal. I can bet you that by doing this constantly with your major goals, you will definitely find the energy and drive to take action towards them. I remember that the only way I managed to have the discipline to write my first book was that every night I would imagine myself in the bookstores signing autographs and seeing the books flying off the shelves. The image was so clear in my mind that it kept giving me the energy to work on my book until it was finally complete in 37 days flat. So start visualizing your goals today!
I facilitate Thought Leaders, Change Makers; Professionals & Business Owners translate NLP concepts into actions to achieve and elicit personal excellence. I conduct NLP Lifestyle Coaching Certification programs for individuals, corporate and celebrity clients. In the next article, you will learn about How To Replicate Anyone’s Success Blue Print. And after that you will come to know in subsequent articles, how you can utilize concepts of NLP+ in all walks of your life to replicate the success blueprint of a winner mindset to win through life. So, stay tuned every Monday & Saturday and fasten your seat belt to ‘Enhance Your Lifestyle With NLP+’)
Shantanu Das Sharma, Creator of the concept NLP Lifestyle Coaching with NLP+ and Founder of Neuromind Leadership Academy is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, NLP+ Lifestyle Master Trainer & Coach, First Certified Social Panorama Consultant in Eastern India directly trained under Dr. Lucas Derks, Clean Language Facilitator & Strategic Interventionist. To explore about NLP+ Lifestyle Coaching you may visit http://shantanudassharma.com/nlp-lifestyle-coaching/
