A belated Happy New Year. Sometimes things don’t go the way we would like and that has how 2011 has started for me. Our family has had a series of unexpected challenges which included my computer being stolen. That means not only did I loose my computer but many many hours of work and yes I have to confess, I didn’t have it backed up!!!!!!!!!! But I always believe good comes from bad, so yes we did have insurance and this week I look forward to getting a nice new computer. I have decided to buy an Apple Mac. So this will be a challenge for me to learn how to use a different type of computer, but Apple offer wonderful service, so I am looking forward to the challenge.
So I have “lost” the first month of the year, but it is never to late to sit down and plan ahead. I am talking about goal setting. If we don’t have a plan of where we want to go, we are like a boat without a rudder, drifting along, not knowing where you are heading. A lot of people make New Years resolutions, but how few stick to them? Don’t be put off if you have broken them. Get yourself back on track, life will always throw things at you, it is up to us to refocus and move forward.
There are many ways to goal set, but I like to keep it simple.
1. You MUST write your goals down, its no use just having ideas in your head. I recommend getting yourself a book. Take some time out and write down everything you want, short and long term. Since the movie came out, a lot of people now call this their “bucket list”. Then put a date next to these goals of when you would like to achieve it by. The fun part is ticking them off as they happen, celebrate your achievements.
2. Make yourself a dream board. I bought a large piece of cardboard, the type children do school projects on and pasted pictures of all the things I would like in my life and I have put it near my bed. So when I wake up, it is the first thing I see. Some people like to put them in their office. What ever suits you.
3. Write your three most important goals on a card and put it in your wallet and read it several times a day.
4. You can also put photos of your goals on your desk, as a screensaver on your computer, on the fridge, the mirror in your bathroom, the back of the toilet door or anywhere you look regularly.
It is important that you believe you can achieve the goals you have set. If you don’t, set small ones first, this will give you the confidence to aim higher.
Be specific, how can you get what you want if you don’t know what you want?
Write you goal in the present, eg, I now have, not I will have.
Add this sentence to the end of your goal - "This, or something better, now manifests for me in, in totally satisfying and harmonious ways for the highest good of all concerned. Thank you God/or universe."
The most important rule to goal setting is, never ever give up. Sometimes things take longer than what we would like, we just have to refocus and believe.
