Thursday, 23 August 2012
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Clear Your Way To Success
What is the secret to getting really successful?
It's clarity.
The biggest level of confusion most people face in setting goals is confusing them with methods of achievement.
As Albert Einstein once remarked, "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem in my opinion to characterize our age."
A goal is what you desire. A method is how you go about getting it.
A goal is singular and fixed, while a method can be multiple and it can vary.
It's clarity.
The biggest level of confusion most people face in setting goals is confusing them with methods of achievement.
As Albert Einstein once remarked, "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem in my opinion to characterize our age."
A goal is what you desire. A method is how you go about getting it.
A goal is singular and fixed, while a method can be multiple and it can vary.
If you want to be an actor or actress, that is a goal. The acting classes you take and the auditions you go to are your methods.
While the difference between a goal and a method is clear and obvious when explained in this way, much confusion arises between the two in practice.
When some people are asked why they are not achieving their goals; they say that they don't have enough money, or knowledge, or support. They believe that their lack of resources stops them. Yet these resources are only methods. They can be substituted with other methods.
If you already had all the methods in place before you started out, it would not be a goal; it would merely be fulfilling a task.
A goal asks you to stretch beyond your current means. It asks you to explore new methods, uncover new resources, develop new strategies.
Doing what you have never done before is working on achieving a goal. Merely doing what you know how to do is just working with your existing methods.
The result of mistaking methods for goals is that people tend to shuffle existing methods around while claiming to be doing something new. They do what they've always done and yet are surprised to find that they get what they have always gotten.
When Joseph Campbell advised people to follow their bliss, he meant that they should do what they heart desired, not make do with what they already had before them.
Thus a goal is an end, and a method is a means to that end.
Confusing one with the other results in no growth at all.
Robert Fritz explained it in the following way:
"The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Make Today What You Think It Should Be
Title catch your attention?
Want to learn how?
Guess what?
You already make every day exactly what you think it should be. The only difference is that your level of expectation may be a tad bit lower than it ought to be.
If you wake up, get out of bed and stub your toe on the bedpost you might already be predisposed to thinking the day's not going to be that great. If you don't do something to change that outlook you probably won't be disappointed.
On a day in and day out basis you get exactly what you expect out of life. Not what you wish for, but exactly what you believe is going to happen.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating; whatever you focus on is exactly what you get. The problem is that most of us don't spend enough timefocusing on the results we want and as such we end up getting the things we don't want because that's what we're focused on.
So how do you make the important distinction in your focus and make the change?
Start with something simple;
Write down those things that you want from life. This does not have to be your giant elaborate list of goals, just the things you'd like to have happen on a daily basis. Things like; being happy, having a great day, being a good friend, being healthy.
Write these things down on a card and keep it with you all the time. Review itin the morning and several times throughout the day. Every time you feel yourself having negative focus, take out the card and read it.
Life is meant to be lived, not survived! If you spend all of your time focused on the way you don't want things to turn out, you will miss the fact that they are actually going the way you want them to. I know this sounds overly simple and quite frankly it is.
Get up tomorrow and decide that you are going to have a great day.
Guess what? If that's what you focus on... that's what you will get.
Why? Because the little bad things that happen to all of us over the course of a day don't really add up to much of anything in the middle of a really great day.
Just think about it.
Remember a day when something really good happened to you and it seemed like everything was going your way? There were probably some negative things going on at the same time, but you just didn't even notice because you were focused on the great stuff!
So, my challenge to you...
Decide what you want today to be like and make today what you think it should be!
Talk to you soon!
Want to learn how?
Guess what?
You already make every day exactly what you think it should be. The only difference is that your level of expectation may be a tad bit lower than it ought to be.
If you wake up, get out of bed and stub your toe on the bedpost you might already be predisposed to thinking the day's not going to be that great. If you don't do something to change that outlook you probably won't be disappointed.
On a day in and day out basis you get exactly what you expect out of life. Not what you wish for, but exactly what you believe is going to happen.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating; whatever you focus on is exactly what you get. The problem is that most of us don't spend enough timefocusing on the results we want and as such we end up getting the things we don't want because that's what we're focused on.
So how do you make the important distinction in your focus and make the change?
Start with something simple;
Write down those things that you want from life. This does not have to be your giant elaborate list of goals, just the things you'd like to have happen on a daily basis. Things like; being happy, having a great day, being a good friend, being healthy.
Write these things down on a card and keep it with you all the time. Review itin the morning and several times throughout the day. Every time you feel yourself having negative focus, take out the card and read it.
Life is meant to be lived, not survived! If you spend all of your time focused on the way you don't want things to turn out, you will miss the fact that they are actually going the way you want them to. I know this sounds overly simple and quite frankly it is.
Get up tomorrow and decide that you are going to have a great day.
Guess what? If that's what you focus on... that's what you will get.
Why? Because the little bad things that happen to all of us over the course of a day don't really add up to much of anything in the middle of a really great day.
Just think about it.
Remember a day when something really good happened to you and it seemed like everything was going your way? There were probably some negative things going on at the same time, but you just didn't even notice because you were focused on the great stuff!
So, my challenge to you...
Decide what you want today to be like and make today what you think it should be!
Talk to you soon!
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