Achieve Your Goals in 2011: The 6 Keys Including One Everyone Forgets

1) Experience the Achievement of Your Goal Before You Achieve Your Goal. And Do This Routinely.
 Daydreaming is essential in many areas of life, especially this one. So visualize it.

2) Make a Plan to Achieve the Goal, and Be Sure to Make It All Specific.

 Reaching your goal, whatever it is, is a project. As with any project, you need to break it down into achievable steps.

 3) Review the Progress of Your Plan Routinely.

Just as you should keep the above one-sentence definition of your goal and the reminder to experience it somewhere you will see it daily, keep the plan for your goal somewhere you will see it at least weekly.

4) Keep Your Goal and All of Its Component Parts SIMPLE.

When you define your goal, when you develop the plan to achieve it including all of its component tasks, keep it all simple.

5) Share Your Goal and Your Plan to Achieve It with Someone Who Cares

Who will support you? Who will kindly crack that whip if you give them permission at the outset to do so?

6) Don’t Let Your Goal Become a Monster Who Consumes You. Maintain Balance, Beauty and Enjoyment.

So many people seem to forget this one, or they never learn it in the first place ... but one of the main reasons people fail to achieve goals is because they allow the attainment of that goal to swallow the other aspects of their life, creating a monster that they end up despising. This is especially true of the big goals, like losing 25 pounds, or eating healthier to overcome a disease, or getting a six-figure job, or writing a novel. Be sure you leave time to explore new things in the world, to enjoy your family and meeting new people, to just do nothing and be in solitude, and to have fun.

Happy New Year!