Even people that are ‘doers’ have some goals and dreams they still haven’t gotten. There are even a few that never made it to your radar screen.
Results coach and trainer Michael Bernoff asks, “How many of you have a dream board with an old car on it?”
If your dream board is 5, 10 or 20 years old, it’s time to get a new dream board AND a new plan.
It’s interesting. In most goal setting seminars or trainings – maybe you’ve been there as well – you get excited talking about the possibilities of what you can accomplish. The trainer shares that only 20% of people really get their goals. The next thing you know, a little voice in the back of your brain way down deep in the subconscious says, “So why even try?”
Here’s a different take on getting your goals. Quit setting them and try a completely different approach. Michael Bernoff’s training on goal getting is vast. Here are a few snippets of how it works.
When you have a vision board you have a goal but you’re not getting your goal. Having your goal vs. getting it are two different things. There’s a reason you’re not getting all of your goals, especially the goals you really want. For example an 8 year old boy that wants to grow up to play in the Super Bowl will work hard, play great in high school, study hard, and eventually make the team for a great college or university. He continues to work hard and, with his determination, gets drafted. Soon, he has the opportunity to play in and WIN the Super Bowl—an achievement in the works for more than 20 years.
It’s not long before he realizes he has achieved the result he set out to achieve and has worked for decades to get. Then after decades of work the result is 2 to 7 days of extreme excitement. This is why goal setting is exciting, somehow your brain knows that it’s more exciting to have the goal than to get the goal.
So what do you do? How do you change your approach? With this one small piece to the puzzle, you can make more progress if you can grasp that the goal is not about getting something but about being something? What if instead of having a goal to earn an extra $100k per year you decided to live like a person that earned that extra money? What if instead of focusing on losing weight you decided to live like a healthier person? What would that do for you, what would that do for the way you look at your daily activities and the progress toward what you want?
An accomplishment such as 6 pack abs, is an end result and your brain will literally say, “Now what?” but LIVING like a healthy person will get you the 6 pack abs and a whole lot more.
There’s some interesting reasons why this works and there’s obviously more pieces to this puzzle of how to make this work effectively for you in business, health or other areas of your life so this is just a start.
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