Goals

Author: Brian Tracy

Introduction:

It is very important to initiate your own success. Any plan is better than no plan at all. There are hundreds of thousands, and even millions of men and women who have started with nothing and achieved great success following all these principles. If being implemented with the right steps, all your
Goals could be achieved successfully.

Chapter 1: Unlock Your Potential

This chapter teaches you to imagine the inborn ability you have to achieve any goal that you could set for yourself. It also require you to identify you real purpose in life in terms of personal, careers, health etc. If there’s anything you want to change about it, what would it be? Then, it also triggers the reader’s mind regarding things that often in their conversation. What do we want most of the time and what price will we be willing to pay for the goals that are important to us. Last but not least, actions towards all the answered questions above can be analyzed.

Chapter 2: Take Charge of Your Life

The author emphasized on letting the reader to identify their biggest negativity in life. Be responsible on each task you are involved in and stop making excuses, instead, keep progressing. He also teaches readers to let go of any grudges that act as a setback and just keep moving forward.

Chapter 3: Create Your Own Future

Be different in solving any problems and think in a wide range of perspective. Be more specific regarding your goals. Each steps counts to make any dreams a reality. Aside from that, one’s should have a perfect calendar and design it from January up to December having to say that you are not set to any limitations at all. What will you do? All in all, make sure you are the one who creates your own future. How you want it to be? How you want your life to look like? It all depends in your own bare hand.

Chapter 4: Clarify Your Values

Identify your values and your relationships with others. This will help you towards achieving your goals. For instant, if you are no longer alive in this world one day, how would you want people to remember you? By doing these, you will strive to do your best and perhaps have the initiative to change the life path you are currently having.

Chapter 5: Determine Your True Goals

Determined the 3 most important goals in your life now and figure out the things that you will like to do the most which will bring you pure satisfaction. If you are able to figure out all these, the rest of the steps which are ways to achieve it will fall into places as well. Learn to tap on the right things to get the right results that you want.

Chapter 6: Decide Upon Your Major Definite Purpose

In this chapter, readers are required to list down 10 of their goals in present tense and choose which one that will bring the biggest positive impact out of all. Be sure to write down each action towards your ultimate goal and for each action, do it immediately. Other than that, determine the price that needs to be invested for any additional work, time and commitment to achieve the goals, then, get busy on paying those prices.

Chapter 7: Analyze Your Beliefs

Visualize and act as if you were one of the most competent people in your field, how would you think, act and feel differently from today? Identify the way you would manage your finance and all the self-limiting beliefs that would hold you back. Aside from that, take every valuable lesson that teaches you the true meaning of failure or triumph and turn it into a motivational guidance for your future.

Chapter 8: Start at the Beginning

Determine the reality aspects of your current situations relative to your goals and figure out the timeline or where exactly your position is. Do a complete financial analysis of your life including how much are you earning today, what are you worth and are you enjoying the area you’re involved in. Determine as well your skills and how exactly you earn per hour. Analyze how you can improve your worth and what you need to do to increase your income. Last but not least, imagine your life in a perfect way and visualized what would have happened if your vision would come onto reality.

Chapter 9: Measure Your Progress

Determined the most important part of your job as it affects your income and set a minimum measure of a specific amount for daily, weekly and monthly saving and investment. Be discipline towards your own goal. Try achieving even a small goal each day.

Chapter 10: Remove the Roadblocks

Identify your major goal and determine the main reason that is holding you back from it. Figure out your greatest fears and doubts that blocks you from your own success. Define your best solutions for your problems and make a plan to overcome them. Do it little by little until you see results.

Chapter 11: Become an Expert in Your Field

Determine the things you react positively in terms of your job and determine your weakest key area on your job as well. Take actions on analyzing these two things and work on it. Determine the additional knowledge in your field that could help you out. Dedicate yourself to a lifelong learning. Read, listen to audio programs, attend courses and seminars, and put what you’ve learned onto actions as

quickly as you can.

Chapter 12: Associate with the Right People

Make a list of important people in your field, personal life and even organizations and create relationship with each of them. Tap onto opportunity of expanding your social business circle. This will be good in terms of communications and influential aspects.

Chapter 13: Make a Plan of Action

List out your priorities in life and those that will help you getting closer to your goals. Figure out How much time and money you need to achieve your goals and whether your resources are enough to do so. Revisit and revise your plan regularly but be prepared for any changes.

Chapter 14: Manage Your Time Well

Make a list of everything you would like to be, do or have in the months and years ahead. Analyze your list and select those items that can have the greatest possible consequences on your life. Make a list of everything you have to do the next day the evening before. Let your subconscious mind work on your list while you sleep. Begin immediately on your most important task and then discipline yourself to concentrate single-mindedly on this one task until it is 100% complete.

Chapter 15: Review Your Goals Daily

Get yourself a spiral notebook this very day and write down 10-15 goals that you would like to achieve in the foreseeable future. Create a set of 3x5 index cards with your goals written out in the positive, personal, present tense to carry with you wherever you go. Discipline yourself to rewrite your goals every day, without reviewing your previous list, until you become absolutely convinced that achieving your goals is inevitable.

Chapter 16: Visualize Your Goal Continually

Project forward and imagine that your life was perfect in every respect. What would it look like? Whatever your answer, imagine this picture regularly. Continually feed your mind with clear, exciting, emotional pictures. Remember, your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. Invest the time regularly to create exciting mental pictures of yourself and your life exactly as you want them to be. Then, have complete faith that your pictures will materialize exactly when you are ready.

Chapter 17: Activate Your Super Conscious Mind

Select your most important goal, your major definite purpose, and visualize it clearly, over and over, with complete confidence that it will materialize at exactly the right time for you. Begin the daily practice of solitude and meditation. During this time, just let your mind relax and float from subject to subject until exactly the right answer to the right question pops into your mind. Try to solve your problem with single-minded concentration, and it that doesn’t work, get your mind busy elsewhere. At exactly the right time, the ideal solution will emerge from your intuition or appear in your life. Your super conscious mind works for you in direct proportion to your complete trust and confidence in it. Practice letting go on a regular basis and wait patiently until exactly the right answer comes to you, at exactly the right time.

Chapter 18: Remain Flexible At All Times

Regularly ask yourself the question, “What do I really, really want to do with my life?” and then make sure that your current goals and activities are in harmony with your answer. Be completely honest and realistic with your life and goals. Resolve to see the world as it is, not as you wish it were, or could be. What changes does this practice suggest? Be willing to admit, in each area of your life where you experience stress or resistance, that you could be wrong, or that you have made a mistake. If the situation has changed, or you have new information, be willing to change your mind and make a new decision based on the facts as they exist today. Refuse to persist in a course of action that does not make good sense. Look into each problem or obstacle you face and seek the valuable lesson or benefit it contains. Should you change your direction or course of action based on new information or experience?
If so, do it now.

Chapter 19: Unlock Your Inborn Creativity

Select your most important goal and write it at the top of a sheet of paper as question. Then discipline yourself to generate 20 answers to that question, and implement one of those answers immediately. Approach every problem systematically by defining it clearly, developing possible solutions, making a decision and then implementing the solution as soon as possible. Think on paper. Write down every detail of a problem or goal and look for simple, practical ways to solve the problem or achieve the goal. Identify the best and worst things that could happen to you in the months ahead. Determine what you could do to reduce the effects of the worst outcomes and maximize the benefits or likelihood of the best possible outcomes.

Chapter 20: Do Something Everyday

Develop a higher tempo of activity. Practice tight time planning. Imagine that you only had half the time available to get the job done and work with a sense of urgency all day long. Continually ask for more responsibility, and when you get it, complete the task quickly and well. This one habit will continually open doors of opportunity for you. From now on, resolve to get up one hour earlier and get going immediately. Work through lunchtime and coffee breaks. Stay an hour later to get caught up and ready for the next day. These additions will double your productivity and put you onto the fast track in your career.

Chapter 21: Persist Until You Succeed

Identify the biggest challenge or problem facing you today on the way to achieving your biggest goal. Imagine that it has been sent to test your resolve and desire. Decide that you will never give up.Think back over your life and identify the occasions where your determination to persist was the key to your success. Remind yourself of those experiences whenever you face difficulties or discouragement of any kind. Resolve in advance that, as long as you intensely desire your goal, you will never give up until you achieve it. Look into every problem, difficulty, obstacle or setback for the seed of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.