Why Your Goal Setting Failed Again This Year
(and it's only February...)
Kevin Hogan
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6 Stupid Things People Do That Lead to Failure
1) They fail to set 1-3 year goals in enough vivid detail to wrap their mind
around the goal.
KEYPOINT: Remember that a "goal" is really like watching a
video of what things will be like. Then, after you have made the necessary
life changes, you work on all of those changes through obstacles
until the goal period arrives.
2) They set a 1-3 year goal that is so stupidly outrageous that
they can't wrap their mind around it.
Example: This year they earned
$50,000 and they set a goal for next year for $1,000,000. Dumb, dumb,
dumb, dumb...dumb, doobey doobey...dumb.....might as well
"set a goal for winning the lottery."
Your nonconscious laughs.
Think of ALL of your friends you talked to in the last year who believe in "The Secret". I'm not talking about the millionaires who promote and
sell "The Secret", I'm talking about the normal human beings like you
and me who earned less than $75,000 annually as of say, two years
ago.
Did you notice how they all became wealthy, happy and healthy because
they believed in "The Secret"?
Exactly.
Nothing changed.
Not with any of them.
None.
No one.
Because they didn't do ANYTHING we talked about that is necessary
for changes to happen.
They rubbed their Magic Lamp and the Genie came out and said,
"What are you, Stupid?"
3) They set all kinds of short term goals that were achievable that really
meant nothing. (Put up a web site, call one hour of cold calling per day,
go to gym daily. Eat healthy. Spend Saturday with kids and two hours
per day with wife.)
If putting up a web site is a goal, you are 100% screwed. Putting up a
web site is what you do before you go to bed tonight, not make it a
"goal" for next week. Bluntly...do you set a goal to go the bathroom?
That's the equivalent of putting up a web site.
You HAVE to go to the bathroom and you MUST have a web site up.
Turn the page to discover more things that make goal setting fail.
