I was asked recently by one of my followers on twitter why am I a goal setting genius and it really kind of made me think. Basically, I’m not going to say that I know everything because I don’t. Anyone who makes that claim, run far, far away from. What I am going to say is that I have studied goal setting achievement for about a decade and-a-half now, a little bit over that, getting close to two decades.
I’ve discovered a lot in that time. I’ve certainly made my share of mistakes and I’ve made my share of successes as well.
One thing that I have found over that time though, is that I am great at helping people get what they want.
Now, it’s been everything from a career change to a certification to different education, there’s all sorts of things, and it’s just a matter of I’ve always been good at helping.
“Okay, so you’re good at helping people, that’s great, no, that’s probably good for me, but does that make you a goal setting genius?”
Well, long story short, the successes and failures that I’ve had, I’ve had time to hone and perfect a lot of what I do. And in that time, I’ve been able to develop different thoughts patterns and different styles of doing things and have come to a number of realizations.
One of the first is that everybody is different. Everybody will have a different way that they do things and that they can get things done. Because of this, I’ve realized that while you can set up generic goal setting structure, it’s not going to be perfect for everyone, and that there is some customization needed and that’s actually what I try to do with my eBook is set up a system that’s generic enough that it can work for everyone, but at the same time, it can also be flexible enough that a person can customize it to their own specific needs. Now, obviously, that’s not necessarily as easy task to do, so I tried to make things as generic and yet flexible as possible, something that everybody can use but will still adapt to their own particular way of doing things and their own particular need.
Now this is not the easiest thing to do when creating a system because systems are basically sets of rules to follow. So flexibility is not an easy thing. But I did again do my best to get that in there and help make that work so that you can actually work within the system and yet do your own thing.
Now another thing that I believe makes me a goal setting genius is just purely the experience that I’ve had. I’ve had numerous failures. That’s one thing that I’m going to say is when you’re on your road to achievement, you are going to fail, you are going to do it a lot. But that’s how you learn. We learn from failing. So get used to it, get going and do it, and you can use it to help you build up that mental toughness so that you can go and achieve what you want. I have also had my share of successes. I remember early in my IT career I had a boss who said, you go out and get this certification and you will get a 50% raise. I could see myself doing that, I could see me getting the certification. I could see me having that 50% raise knowing how great it would be. All the things that you always hear about in those Law of Attraction and achievement things. The visualization. The feeling it. Thinking what it would be like and picturing yourself at that point.
I was able to do that, I wasn’t even thinking about it.
It didn’t hit me until years later that that’s what I had done. But it was something that doing that and going through that. That helped to show me exactly what I could do and exactly how amazingly it worked. I mean that 50% raise was put on my plate. I finished up a certification that normally takes at least a good six months to a year in six weeks. I just pounded it out because I knew I wanted it right then right there as quickly as I could. And that’s the power of having that visualization.
That’s some of the experience that I have and that is one of the things that I like to share with people is my experience and my successes. Because you learn from your successes just like you learn from your failures. The only thing is you can learn from your failures instantly and from your successes you may not realize it right away.
Just because you are like “Okay that worked”, but you don’t necessarily know why it did.
Something I can do from my experience is I can help you to analyze your successes and see what works for you so that you know next time you do this instead of just doing a wandering aimlessly thing.
There are just all sorts of things you can do with goal setting. There are all sorts of different ways that it can be done. Most people have heard of the whole SMART goal setting thing and it is something that I agree with because it is part of the basics of goal setting, it the basic of the Law of Attraction and a lot of other different methodologies of achievement. It comes under different names but it is something that is, like I said, it is just basic.
So you just go and use that and it can help get you started, but there is more than that as well.
So if you know the basics of goal setting, that is great. I can help get you to a higher level.
If you are brand new to goal setting or you just kind of heard a little bit about it, but you don’t really know much more than maybe just write it down, that is fine too.
I love helping people at all levels.
Now, I feel like I could talk for a very long time on this because it is something that I think that just is so essential and explain some of my credentials to you and why I think I am goal setting genius, I mean there is just so much there. I promised on of my Twitter followers that I would get a blog post up about this and I wanted to get it done.
So I am going to leave it right there. I look forward to any comments that he might have. Please if you have any more questions put them in the comments. I would be lucky to answer them for you. Or alternatively, just hit me up on Twitter. You can reach me there at learntosetgoals and it is all one word so just follow me in Twitter there. You guys are great, I’ll talk to you later.
Upwards and onwards.
Ps. So, I’m thinking of doing a special offer with the audio book because I know some people learn better with audio than text. I did try to include as much in the ebook with the text to help you more visual learners, those who do better by reading and something I’ve been thinking about for a while, just haven’t quite decided on how to do it is to create a video series on how to go about doing proper goal funding. This would be even more in-depth than the eBook. So, if you guys are interested in that, leave a message on the comments or hit me up on twitter, let me know what you want to learn. Let me know if there’s something that you’re not quite sure about. It’s never a bad thing to ask questions. You can hear the same thing from 50 different people and you’ll have 50 different explanations of it, so you might not always understand the basis behind all of it. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Let me know what it is that you’d like to learn about and I will do my best to deliver that to you.
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May 20, 2010
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