Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

1. Takeout a clean sheet of paper and write the word Goals plus today’s date, at the top of the page. Then write down ten goals that you would like to achieve within the next twelve months.
These maybe one-week goals, one-month goals, six-month goals, or twelvemonth goals. But they are all goals that you would like to achieve over the next year.
It seems that goals you want to achieve within one year are more motivational than goals that reach five or ten years into the future, even though you will eventually set these goals as well.
When you write down your goals, use the three Ps. Make them present tense, personal, and positive. Your subconscious mind can only work on a goal that is properly phrased this way. Each goal starts with the word I followed by an action verb.
For example, your goal could be, I earn XXX by December 31 of this year.”
Write your goal as though you have already achieved it and you are explaining to someone else what you have already accomplished.
Instead of saying, I am going to quit smoking you would write, “I
am a nonsmoker.”
Write down the first ten goals you can think of in the present tense,
and make them personal and positive. Once you have your list often goals, ask this question Which one goal on this list, if I were to achieve it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?”
There is always one goal that fits this description. Once you have selected this goal, it becomes your major definite purpose in life. Transfer this goal to the top of a clean sheet of paper, making it personal and positive and in the present tense. For example, I earn this specific amount of money by this date. You then make a list of everything you can think of to achieve this goal.
Write down at least twenty ideas.
Write down the obvious answers and then the opposite to each of those answers. Keep writing until you have twenty different actions you could take that would help you to achieve this goal. Organize this list into a plan, a checklist with the things that you could do, from first to last.

6. Take action immediately on one task, the first item on your list, and complete this one task as soon as possible. From then on, do something everyday on this list to move you toward your major goal. Never allow an exception. Do this seven days a week.

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