The Only Goal Setting System That Works (part 1)
Kevin Hogan
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$10,000 KEY: Desire drives emotion. Emotion is fundamental to attention.
Attention is necessary for acquisition.
In other words: If you have to try and think about your goal
and actually might forget about it from day to day or hour to
hour, the goal could be worthwhile but it is very unlikely to
ever manifest in reality.
The vast majority of your brain
function operates outside of your awareness. Whatever the emotional
and survival elements of the brain focus on (outside of your
awareness) are what you are likely to be driven to move toward
and away from. Your brain will focus on what will fulfill your
CORE desires and bring you into a desirable state of being.
This "state" differs from person to person. Some people need calm.
Others excitement. There is no universal state of being that is
desirable for everyone, though everyone does seem to benefit
from the ability to be calm at least some of the time.
If you think it would be desirable to become a manager at your
company, but you are emotionally being driven away from your
work to find fulfillment elsewhere, your goal-setting is going
to most likely be met with a lot of frustration even if you
are successful.
There are a number of aspects of life in which you can achieve
goals. There are a number of careers, jobs, lifestyles you can
live with and even thrive on.
The first area of true consideration is answering this simple question:
What are some of those possibilities?
Here is a certainty: Where you put your attention is where you
are likely to go. If you focus on what you don't want, you may
very well find yourself getting it anyway. There is nothing
metaphysical about this....and in fact when goal setting or
doing any planning at all YOU MUST figure out what you
don't want. BUT, because you are human the brain will
default to programming vs. conscious control.
Once you have figured out what you DON'T WANT and
you have laid out your map with contingencies, then you
focus on the map and following it.
Again, it's simple science. At this point whatever
pictures you put in your brain are the only pieces of
information your brain can utilize to direct the body toward or
away from. If your response to your fear is phobic, your brain
will do everything in it's power to move you away from the
stimulus. In these cases, say the fear of extreme poverty can
cause you to work hard to avoid poverty. A phobia and powerful
fear can definitely move you away from something.
However, when you are thinking of choices that are neither
phobic nor which you are passionate about, you have a very
different situation. Your brain will lock onto these images and
move you toward them. If there are many different pictures that
don't have a common theme, you will simply move in multiple
directions. This may not be a bad thing. If your goals are to be
"a little of everything" that is very legitimate and could be
very fulfilling. Most people however, have a sense of dream or
purpose. My job is to show you specifically how to set goals so
you get there!
KEY: The first principle I want you to carve into your tablet of
stone is that you are far more likely to achieve any goal if you
are truly attached to it in some emotional way. (Does it bring
out feelings of excitement, calm, passion, love, joy, intensity?)
KEY 2: The second principle I want you to write in your tablet of
stone is that where your attention is largely determines what
your outcome will actually be.
KEY 3: The third principle is that although long term goals are very
useful, I am far more concerned about your short and mid term
goals. Put the majority of your attention on the goals that are
going to come to fruition (or not!) soon. Therefore: Set short
term goals that you can use to evaluate how your journey is
going? (Ex. Are you having fun? Are you learning what you need
to learn? Are you seeing how your current activity is directly
related to your longer term success?)
Long-term goals are typically not compelling for most people.
Everyone knows they should save $10,000 per year from now until
retirement so they can retire with a tiny nest egg, but less than 1%
will actually do what they need. They will instead do what they
want. Assume that you will do this as well (at least for now!).
Deadlines are another thing.
To learn what makes people quit - PLUS a bonus exercise to get you on your way to successful goal setting, continue... 
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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
3432 Denmark #108
Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732
