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I think that I have a great understanding of life. I have known sorrow following the death of loved ones ,I have known unbelievable joy at the birth of loved ones [ my 4 children] I have known defeat and victory, success and failure. Many of us have dreams we may lie awake at night and get an idea into our head and for that period of time we actually plan it out think it thru and then we wake up! So people like Dave Allen, Tony Robbins, Les Hewitt et all write books and develop systems that help those of us who want to actually go from dreaming to doing.

Goals.

A goal is nothing more than you saying to yourself I want this, it means nothing in the world unless you are willing to take the next step and that step is to plan.

Planning.

When designing a plan of action I steal ideas from several of the guru’s out there , I get paper lots of it and I rough draft ideas , alist of things I must do and that must happen before the Goal becomes a reality. For instance I want to get 1 million dollars in one year . Well thats nice but if I am $ 500,000 in debt now I need to figure out how to pay off that first before I even start a plan to make 1 million dollars.

In other words when designing a plan put everything on the table you will find that some actions will be required before your actual plan to achieve your goal can be designed , in fact you will have to make several mini goals .

Details

The saying that the devil is in the details is true, do not overlook the small stuff. When you commit to a goal be totally honest with yourself write down all the what if and what for arguments. Jot ideas down put reminders all over the place ,force yourself to vision the goal everyday and everywhere.

What I do is exactly this I can set a mini goal like clean the garage….Simple right? However when you live in a chaotic house like I do with 4 kids ranging in age from 4 up to 14 and various commitments like basketball and Irish step dancing and school, homework and all that fun stuff The garage can easily become I will get to it one day soon. Here is what I did I got yellow stickies and wrote on them ‘Did You Clean The Garage Today’, I put one on the Bathroom wall , in my car on the dashboard ,by the Kitchen sink and on my headboard . I even put them on my workdesk and in my moleskin. So finally one day at work during lunch I drew up a Goal ……I want a clean Garage next came the plan .

I need a box of heavy black construction bags.

I need to close my eyes and toss everything I absolutely don’t need .If I needed it so bad why has it been in the Garage for the past 2 years.

I set the time I would start , Tonight at 5 pm when I ate supper I would recruit son number 1 and bribe him with a $20 bill .

24 bags later it still wasn’t complete but God it felt good to be able to walk from one side to the other without requiring an emergency room visit.

Completing the task.

There is nothing better than completing your final step and achieving your goal. Why would cleaning a garage be a goal? Quite simply I initially set my goals low.And as I achieved each goal I made the next one a little bit bigger. I achieved the joy of being debt free .I achieved the goal of getting my house valued at almost 1 million dollars simply by doing a ton of small projects on the house that any real estate person will gladly tell you adds saleability to the property.I have the neatest Garage in New Jersey , My home office and computer desktop is a fine tuned masterpiece now.

Conclusion

Dreaming is nice but a complete waste of time unless you are willing to actually try to achieve them.You have to want something so bad that you will do anything [legal of course] to achieve it.