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How to Achieve Your Goals – 3 Ways to Achieve Your Goals by “Doing the Right Thing”
Posted by karim101ismail in General, goal setting, setting goals on August 25th, 2010
Just “do the right thing.” It seems a cliché to say that these days. What is the right thing anyway? How do you go about doing the right thing? Because my work focuses on helping people with goal setting—especially setting bold, audacious goals—in the workplace and in one’s personal life, I will share with you 3 ways to focus on doing the right thing within that context.
1. Pursue Inner Peace
Although I would never recommend that you always trust feelings over logic, I ask you to think of situations where you felt totally at ease and peace with both yourself and those around you. How did you feel internally? When you do the right thing, that sense of inner peace follows and you’ll know you’re doing the right thing.
Goal Setting – 5 Ways to Achieve Your Goals With Speed
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, life goals, setting goals on July 17th, 2010
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “money loves speed.” That’s because it’s not enough to have a goal or a good idea. You must quickly implement it in order to have success.
This doesn’t mean you can’t have long term goals, of course. But the forward motion you gain from focusing on getting things done quickly will help you achieve even your long term goals too.
Let me give an example. Twenty minutes after Jason Mark used an iPad for the very first time he came up with an idea for an iPad bracket. The bracket serves as a frame for the iPad, much like a picture frame. It lets you mount the iPad on a wall for presentations in meetings, displays in museums, etc.
Three days after coming up with the idea he presented it to a manufacturing company and within 21 days they had a working prototype, marketing plan, website and their first sale, which came an hour after the iBracket was mentioned on a blog. Note that this was a physical product yet still they got it out the door in record speed.
With today’s technology and social media it’s very possible for you to achieve similar things with great speed. This applies to any area of your life, like fitness goals, plans to redecorate, saving money for a vacation, etc. Speed helps everything.
Here are 5 steps for you to accomplish your goals with more speed:
1. Set an audacious goal. Make sure it’s one you are passionate about. That passion will energize and sustain you in the early going. By audacious I mean a goal that might seem outrageous on the surface or hard to achieve but one that will motivate you because the potential payoff is great.
To Achieve Your Goals Share Your Goal Widely With Others
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, life goals, setting goals on March 24th, 2010
Step 11 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle can contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley
Sharing your goal with others is vital to your success. However, many people are uncomfortable doing this, so they make the mistake of hiding their goal, or only sharing it with one person.
When you don’t share your goals it may be an unconscious attempt at self sabotage. If you don’t tell anyone about your goals they will never become real in your mind. When they don’t feel real it will be hard to be serious about them. You might feel uncomfortable at first, but hiding your goals will not help you.
Instead, you will find that when you have the courage to share your goal, you articulate it more clearly for yourself, and you strengthen your commitment to it. Sharing your goal also allows you to receive objective feedback. By sharing your huge goal, you will undoubtedly inspire friends, family, and colleagues. So please consider doing what we always ask children to do, and share! Read the rest of this entry »
To Achieve Your Life Goals, Set Clear Milestones on Your Path to Success
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, setting goals on March 15th, 2010
Step 10 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo de Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown
Sometimes reaching a goal feels miraculous, like a quantum leap. But if you look closely, you’ll notice that the goal was attained by moving from one step to the next. To make steady progress, it is critical to define steps and time frames along the way. Time frames allow you to assess your goal, determine your progress, and take corrective action if needed.
Many people make the unfortunate mistake of not setting clear milestones or well-defined steps with clear time frames while trying to achieve their goals.
I have found that it is best to define 90 day milestones. Why 90 days? It’s long enough for you to achieve meaningful progress (rather than a 30 day time frame, which can sometimes be too short). But it’s much shorter than an annual milestone, thus allowing you four times in a year when you can measure progress and take any required corrective action.
Goal Setting – To Achieve Your Goals, Focus on the Solutions to Overcoming Your Obstacles
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, setting goals on February 22nd, 2010
Step 8 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
The next step in achieving your goals after you define your obstacles is to find solutions. If you have defined the possible obstacles to your goal, your mind will suddenly perceive solutions where none existed before.
This is because as humans are instinctive problem-solvers. Most people make the mistake of not listing their obstacles on paper; maybe because we are afraid to acknowledge they exist. But once you do your perspective usually changes.
Don’t make the mistake of not thinking of solutions. For each obstacle you defined brainstorm one or more possible solutions and write them down. If you find that you are unable to define all your solutions on the first try, don’t worry. Just keep coming back to your list, and eventually solutions will become apparent to you.
Remember, problem solving is ingrained in our nature as human beings!
I have used as an example for outlining the steps to achieve your goals, my audacious goal to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. I set a clear time frame to reach this goal in 1.5 years. My measurement of success was to get to the top of the mountain without endangering my life or those in the group. I defined 10 compelling reasons why I was undertaking the climb and printed these out to review whenever my resolve waivered. I defined the key benefits I would gain by reaching my goal. I then defined and listed the consequences of not achieving my goals. I wrote down the many obstacles there were many in my path. Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting and Yoga
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, life goals, setting goals on December 14th, 2009
As you may know, at my workshops I incorporate yoga or meditation into our activities.
That is because yoga is one of the best ways to align our minds with our bodies.
Plus anyone can do yoga. You don’t have to be in top physical condition to start doing yoga exercises.
In yoga, you can break a sweat even when you aren’t moving. No running or jumping required.
The most important aspect of yoga is its focus on breathing and meditation. Yoga increases the oxygen in your bloodstream, which revitalizes all your organs, including your brain.
Yoga will also help give you more energy, a positive outlook and a reduction in mood swings. Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting Step 4 – Define the Compelling Reasons to Achieve Your Goals
Posted by karim101ismail in life goals, setting goals on December 2nd, 2009
The next post in my series 12 Steps to Achieving your Goals
Strong reasons make strong actions.—William Shakespeare
If you cannot articulate a clear, compelling reason for why you must achieve a goal, especially a huge goal, you will likely not achieve your goal. Why? Simply because achieving any large goal will likely involve changes in your life. It will possibly take you out of your comfort zone.
It will most likely challenge your thinking. It may require hard work. So unless you have compelling and powerful reasons for why it is important for you to achieve your goal, you significantly diminish your chances of achievement.
Focus on why it’s really important to you to achieve this goal. Your reasons could stem from a huge challenge, from your pain, someone else’s pain, an image, etc. Think hard, and make these reasons as emotional as possible, as we are all driven by our emotions, no matter how rational we think we are.
Be careful not to focus on benefits, (define benefits) as we will look at the importance of benefits soon. Instead simply list why it’s important to achieve this result.
Here are the compelling reasons I listed to accomplish my huge goal.
- To prove to myself that I can take on a huge physical challenge and accomplish it
- A 21st birthday gift for my daughter Aliya that she will cherish for the rest of her life
- To inspire others to set and accomplish huge goals
- To experience and celebrate nature through a photo essay/s
- Because I have told the world I am doing it! Read the rest of this entry »
My Amazon Campaign – What a Huge Success!
Posted by karim101ismail in setting goals on November 19th, 2009
The Amazon campaign was a great success. I am thrilled!
We made it to the top 20 in three categories success, careers, and Happiness
The results exceeded my expectations many times over!
Thank you everyone. I could not have done it without your help.
How Bullfighting Can Help You With Goal Setting
Posted by karim101ismail in life goals, setting goals on November 2nd, 2009
I read something interesting about bullfighting the other day that I want to share with you. There is a place in the bullring where every bull feels safe. If the bull reaches this spot, he stops running and rests.
It might seem like the bull has given up or injured himself when he enters this place, but this is not the case at all. Rather, this break from the action enables him to gather up his full strength again so he can continue fighting.
This safe place is called the “querencia.” This spot is different for every bull. It is the job of the matador to figure out the location of the querenciais for the bull and then prevent the bull from entering this sanctuary.
What is the “querencia” in your life? It doesn’t have to be a physical place, although it can be. It can also be a state of mind or a particular memory or mental picture that makes you feel safe and whole. It can also be as simple as a photograph or other object that, when you look at it, makes you feel at home and secure.
When you find it difficult to achieve your goals or to temporarily get off the treadmill of your life, enter your “querencia,” even if just a few minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting Step 3 – How to Measure Your Success
Posted by karim101ismail in life goals on October 24th, 2009
So far we learned how to define a huge goal and set a deadline in our process to achieve our goals. Today we will discuss how to measure our success.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is not defining clearly how they will measure “success”.
For some goals, it is easy to define how you will measure progress. But I believe everything can be measured, directly or indirectly via a proxy.
For example, if your goal was to “lose weight and get fitter,” you could measure weight loss, your Body Mass Index, the distance you can easily walk or run in a given time, etc. These are very concrete ways to measure weight loss and fitness gain.
If your goal was “improved family relationships,” it is more difficult to measure progress.
In this case you may have to define a whole set of “soft” performance measures to give you a good way to assess your progress.
In this example, is the frequency of family contact increased, especially if there is geographical distance between family members? Are the interactions deeper and more meaningful and satisfying? Are you increasingly happy emerging from those interactions?
Remember my audacious goal was to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,340 feet, one of the world’s seven peaks and Africa’s tallest mountain. I set a very clear timeframe of reaching this goal in 1.5 years, taking the opportunity of a three week school break in January 2005 that my daughter would have to undertake the trek with me.
My measure of success was simple: get to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro at 19,340 feet without endangering my life or those in the group. Read the rest of this entry »
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