Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail! How to Manifest Your Vision?

Why would you set off on a Journey without a map, plan, and vision of where you want to end up?

Adventure you say…Well that's like closing your eyes and just hoping you will hit the bull's-eye in darts, when you really, really WANT to hit the center. Adventure may be fun when you have nothing to lose, you have all the money you want and need AND all the time to waste.

However, if you have wants and needs financially and something you want to accomplish NOW. I know you, you know you will need a roadmap and your energy put towards your ultimate goal, what it looks like completed, which is your vision.
Research show repeatedly that people who spend time to map out their goals and visions and spend the time cultivating, making them happen, get to their planned destination…As I learned on my holiday ski vacation.

Here are some helpful ways of creating that trail map to get you moving down the hill towards your vision.

I. Inventory the previous year (your last map or plan)
Allow yourself some time to explore these questions; put music on, meditate, pray or think about each one and write down what you find.
• What did you accomplish? What are you proud of?
• What are you thankful for?
• What did you not complete that you wanted to?
• What do you want your next year to look like?

II. Vision for Manifestation
Stay in that contemplative, meditative place and imagine yourself in the present year, walking through a forest path and you come across a bridge to a beautiful meadow and garden with a big pond. You bend down to look into this pond and you see your reflection and you begin seeing your present year flash in front of you; the things you accomplish, the goals you complete, the relationships you have; all the good and maybe even the challenges…flash forward it is New Years eve. You are looking at your goal sheet and you are reading off all your completed goals to a gathering of your most supportive and loving friends. They are smiling at you and clapping in celebration of your accomplishments. You feel the expanding joy inside you!

III. PLAN NOW! Or Plan to Fail!
•Write down right now what you saw…what was the big picture, what were you doing, what did you accomplish, what were you feeling???
•Now write down 1-3 goals in each of these categories you want to complete: Personal/Psychological, Health/wellness, Job/career, Financial, Spiritual, Social/Relationships, Family, Community/charity

These are the beginning steps to planning and visioning and manifesting your dreams. It my next newsletter I will show you the next steps in this process to assure that your goals get completed and your dreams fulfilled. I will show you how to take a goal to completion through my next 3 steps. Don't miss it!

© 2007 Dr. Cindy Brown

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Create a Plan Now to Get What You Want

To really achieve your goals, you need to create a plan so you can keep yourself on track. Creating a plan, enables you to clearly see in your mind a solid image of exactly what you want.

Making a plan can be accomplished by doing just a few things. First, you can begin by writing down exactly what it is that you want to attain.
Then, you can sort your items by what's most important to what is the least important.

Numerous items may be on your list but, in order for you to make sure that you really can get to all of them, you must choose one of them.
Now that you have chosen the most important goal to start with, it's time to break it up into smaller tasks. Small tasks are a lot easier to manage and less intimidating.

Next, ask yourself how much time it will take to complete each task. Give yourself some extra time for unforeseen emergencies and errors in judgement.
Even though sudden changes may not occur, it's always good to have a concrete idea of how you would handle the worst situation if you had to. By knowing exactly what you could be encountering, will sooth any anxieties you may feel at first, or later on.

Give your plan a reality check by deciding if it has realistic goals and schedules. Consider what it's actually like to do each step that must be done, so you can complete any given goal.

A crucial part of planning is to define your objectives so you can successfully attain what you want. Objectives help you remember why you are doing a particular task and how very important it is in the final steps to really achieving your desired goal.

Creating a plan will help you to be a better person and achieve of all your goals and dreams

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Tom Straub is a successful author, and webmaster of the Best Self Improvement web site, where you can read more on Goal Setting and more than a dozen other self improvement topics.
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Road To Success - 6 Steps That Will Get You Out Of Trouble & Reach Your Dreams

Once you get started in your road to success, soon you’ll encounter roadblocks and barriers. What will happen to your success will depend on how you’ll confront them. Look at the 6 steps that will get you out of trouble and let you finally triumph.

1) Exploit The Barriers For Your Purpose
If you commit and apply your effort towards your goal, signs showing you the direction will pop up. And with them, soon barriers will arise. You’ll have to look beyond the barrier, finding both alternatives and motivation to carry on.

Remember that every barrier has two components: one opposing you and one supporting you. Every barrier help you clarify your goal and understand the real life process underlying it. Think on how the barrier could be supporting you in terms of learned processes and resources you can use and the barrier is showing.

Only those who can see beyond the initial failures and disappointments can transform this painful road into the road to success.

2) Exploit Barrier Weakness Instead Of Quitting
Don’t be another one who makes excuses to quit. If you want success, you have to discard the verb “to quit” from your glossary. Hard work is a necessary ingredient to success. Not quitting is the first step of perseverance.
Not quitting is an art you can learn. There are forces in the difficulties you are facing that stimulate your willingness to quit. Your turning point is in understanding that these forces are different.

Different parts of the barrier are opposing you in a different way. This will help you in understanding where your barrier is weaker and will suggest an attack point on your behalf. Concentrate on this weak spot, and will be easier to not quit.

3) Exploit The Power Of Thinking Small
Thinking big is the great motivator, but will also set big expectations that are going to be easily defeated by the challenges you are going to face towards you success. It seems too much effort is needed, too much time, too much commitment.
The solution is that you have also to think small. Small actions. Do something small towards your goal but do it consistently.

4) Exploit The Power Of Persistence Until Things Become Easier
Not quitting is the first step of perseverance, and perseverance is the most important ingredient of success. The most outstanding example of perseverance is Edison, in his quest for the light bulb (10000 trials before getting a working one is an outstanding effort).

Even if things seem impossible and you have tons of negative feedback, the successful mindset requires you never consider quitting. Once you are in the road, keep running until the next telephone pole. And then until the next one.
This means that you have to keep continuing focusing on the next small step (thinking small) until barriers become first weak, then things become possible. Doing one more step is the second step of perseverance.

5) Exploit Your Own Power
Managing barriers with persistence is the difference between who will do it and who won’t. You have to engage to improve your success skills thus increasing your probability to make it. Your ability to win in the above three points will depend on your ability to improve.

You can improve your ability to overcome barriers and create positive motivation in life for work, health and success on autopilot by just listening your way to success and abundance.

6) Exploit The Power Of The Success Principles
Barriers are a healthy part of the learning process that will lead you from dreams to success. This is a basic principle of success. Every big success is built on overcoming barriers.

Understanding what success means to you and its underlying principles will affect your short and long term performance. Understanding the 7 most important success principles” will improve your ability to cope with barriers and drive your life in your road to success.

If you understand the success principles, persist and improve along the way, your road to success will start tough, but will become easier and easier as you go. You’ll find that your goal is not so far and will enjoy the journey in the meanwhile.
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An Articles that Will Make You Trully Understand (Begin with The End in Mind)

The principle difference between a human and an animal is that a human possesses self-awareness and conscience while an animal does not. People usually take things for granted. Let me share with you a story...

Bill was at a pub late at night discussing business and realised that it was already very late and that his wife was waiting for him on the bed. Dragging his drunken soul, he rushed back, wanting to make it up for her wife's long wait. Once in the room, he immediately hopped onto bed and satisfied the tired soul. After which, he went to the toilet and was shocked when he saw his wife. "Wasn't that you on the bed?" He shrieked. "That was my mother. She dropped by to visit."

Many a time, we tend to assume and take things for granted.

Now, I have an exercise for you to do. And I hope you do it diligently because through this exercise, you will benefit aplenty. You will appreciate goal setting a whole lot great deal more.

Imagine, you happened to walk pass a funeral ceremony. You saw your family members participating in the ceremony. You joined in the ceremony and could feel the sadness in the environment. Then, you strolled to the coffin and looked at the deceased. You see your face.

Now, (regardless of your religion or beliefs) you read the programme for the ceremony and learnt that 4 different groups of people will be giving speeches on you.

Bring out a pen and a paper now. Write down what you wish to hear (all the good comments) from these 4 group of people.

1. Parents
2. Best Friend
3. Superior in your organisation
4. Your subordinate in your organisation

Spend about fifteen minutes and focus on what you really wish to hear from them, all the good things about you that you wish they will say.

"Begin with the End in Mind"

Take a moment and reflect on the speeches that your recorded. Do you already fulfil all the good points that they mentioned about you?

If you hadn't been communicating with your parents, do you wish to see them on stage and say, "I don't understand him. Ask his friends to give the speech instead."? If not, shouldn't you be communicating more with your parents, more than the yes, okay, ya, sure?

This simple exercise is for you to appreciate "Begin with the End in Mind". With the notes that you written down on the speech, use it as the list of goals that you want to achieve in your life. Start making changes to your life. Unless you wish that no one will speak good of you in your funeral.

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7 Steps That Accelerate Goal Achievement

There are common steps associated with goal achievement. They are:

- Aim high.
- Write your goals down.
- Set a time limit or deadline.
- Identify those people, and organizations that can help you reach your goals.
- Consider multiple facets of your life including family, career, health, etc.

I have often been asked if there is more to the process of goal achievement than these steps. My answer? Yes there is.

While the goal setting process outlined above is quite valuable, and perhaps fundamental, I have found nuances to the goal-setting process, typically not discussed. Here are seven steps that will accelerate your goal achievement.

Step One: Assume Success: It All Begins With The Way You Think

Top achievers think differently. First they conceive, plan, and work on their goals with a level of expectation that is foreign to most people. They do not say, “I’ll try this, and see what happens,” or “This might work, you never know.”

Achievers proceed toward their goals with a level of confidence that cause others to think they have inside knowledge about how to make their goals a reality. It is this level of expectation that gives them the laser focus needed to see possibilities that most do not see. More importantly, they are actually “living,” their goals long before they are achieved.

Step Two: Identify and Focus On Your Primary Goals

Intensifying your focus on a few goals is often easier for those beginning to refine their own goal achievement process. Having just a few goals makes each goal much more real because you cannot get lost in a lengthy list of plans and projects. As you develop more experience and confidence in the goal setting process, you can expand your goal list and potentially work on 10, 20, or 30 or more goals at the same time. However I recommend that most people trim their goal list down to a very manageable group of 7.

Step Three: Examine And Clarify Your Beliefs and Values

A big obstacle for many seeking accelerated goal achievement is being out of sync with their goals. That is, many “say,” they want to achieve certain things but do not really believe in their ability to achieve their goals or totally value their goals. As a result they unconsciously minimize their ability to achieve their stated intentions. To reach you goals fast you have to be sure that your goals really reflect your true beliefs and values. After setting your goals, be honest with yourself about whether these are really your beliefs and commitments.

Step Four: Immerse Yourself In The Process Daily

This is an important step that many goal setters are unaware of. Top achievers “live” their goals. Many unconsciously work with their goals every day. It’s a good idea for you to take this approach consciously. I believe strongly in working with my goals twice a day at minimum, once in the morning, and once in the evening.

I have spiral notebook in which I write my goals. In that notebook I have also developed my “Statement of Achievement.” This statement opens my goal list and closes my goal list. It sets the tone for the goals to follow. I recommend that you write your own, Statement of Achievement and that you write your statement and your list of goals twice a day. Sometimes you’ll want to even go back more and recite the statement as it occurs to you during the day.

Step Five: Recognize and Act On Your Intuition

Balancing your internal process with your external process is step five of my accelerated goal achievement process. First you want to become sensitive to the ideas and solutions that are presented to you thousands of times daily.

You are always receiving ideas, insights, and greater details that pertain to your goals throughout the day. Once you decide to really focus on your goal setting and achievement this will become more noticeable. It’s important that you capture this information. Carry a journal with you and write down the sparks of insight you receive throughout the day. These are the quickest paths to your goals. When you take action on these items you will be led into circumstances that will, in turn, set you on a direct path to your goal.

Step Six: Overcome Your Resistance

We all tend to hesitate, re-consider, and even procrastinate. We have impulses that we ignore. There are actions we won’t take. We don’t make calls. We don’t write letters. We don’t send emails. Sometimes others will offer ideas and suggestions, but we don’t want to be counseled or coached. There are so many examples of how we resist achieving our own goals. You must become conscious of your resistance and learn to breakthrough this resistance.

Step Seven: Establish Positive Triggers

You can and should train yourself to remain focused on your goals and your ability to achieve them by establishing psychological triggers that bring you to the right focus and state of accomplishment quickly. Pyschological triggers include words that quickly bring you back to your aim, images representing the successful accomplishment of your goals, and even music that affects you emotionally and gives you the feeling of success and accomplishment.

Achieving your goals requires the right thinking and the right actions, sometimes for an extended period of time. However, these tips will help you develop a winning strategy that will keep your progress steady and pointed in the right direction.

André Taylor is an entrepreneur, a highly paid consultant, and one of today’s dynamic voices on business and personal success. He’s the author of a collection of audio and video programs including the business-building system, 81 Lessons of The Natural Entrepreneur. For more than 25 years, André has been involved in enterprise management and the discipline of personal and organizational development. Combining broad range experience in high-growth industries, and an uncommon understanding of the lessons of business and personal resilience, he provides extraordinary insight and commentary on the subjects of entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, marketing, innovation, and growth. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=André_Taylor