When building your own online business you need to establish what is the desired outcome.
Let's face it, what is the point of pushing ourselves to achieve a goal if we don't know what our desired outcome will be.
To establish an outcome, we can ask ourselves a series of questions to get down to the bottom of what and why you are trying to achieve something. We start with stating in a positive sentence what it is we want. Once you have done that you need to establish if you can achieve this outcome by yourself or if you need support people to help you. If you need support people who will they be? Ask them to help you out and clearly establish what sort of help you need. Then close your eyes and imagine you have already achieved the goal, run through your senses, what would it look like? What would it feel like? What would you hear? When we imagine a situation we will be using our senses to make the scene complete so it is really important to do this part of the process. Whether we imagine something or whether we recall a past situation it will be coded with our five senses, some senses stronger than others.
Imagination is a great tool, imagination allows us to dummy run a situation without in effect doing anything in real life about it. A good example is a interview, you might be nervous, if in your mind you imagine you are already in the interview and go through some of the questions you think you might get asked, your brain registers that process. If you imagine over and over about the interview, by the time you get to the interview you feel much more relaxed because your brain has already put you in the position many times. In the same way if we want to create a goal and we imagine what it would be like if we had already achieved it, it gives us a really good indication of what it will be like for you when you achieve it. If that feeling is a great feeling while you are feeling excited about achieving it, imagine you have a camera and take a snap shot if what you see and then store it safely somewhere in your mind. While you are busy achieving your goal you might have highs and lows, shall I carry on, shall I quit and when you feel like quitting you can always pull up that snap shot in your mind and it gives you a great boost to carry on.
Another question to ask yourself is, when will you know you have achieved this goal, and be specific about this answer. You clearly want to know when your re over the finish line. The next question is what is the purpose of the goal? What will it give you? Is there a greater benefit of your goal?
Good clean goals give good clean results.
A question you need to ask yourself is, is this in line with my morals and values. Goals not in line with my morals and values are bittersweet when you achieve them, so become a big waste of time.
So think of what you want to achieve, carefully pick some support people if needed, imagine the goal already completed. Take a snap shot when you feel the most motivated about the goal. Make sure it is a good clean goal that is in line with your morals and values. Strive forward and when the sprits are flagging check out your snap shot again. When you have achieved it, remember to give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.
Whether you are a avid goal setter or never done it before, you can start at any point, the goal can be as big or small as you want, at the end of the day you are trying to please and amaze yourself - not others.
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