Since this is the beginning of a new year, I wanted to support you in your efforts to make your resolutions and intentions your new reality. I wanted to offer something that you could put to use over the course of these next 12 months toward your success. For this first month, I’m going to be talking all about goals.  One of the most important things anybody can do is define their goals, define the vision for their life.

I want to start by asking you, if you imagine yourself a year from now, what do you actually and truly see? Is everything about the same it is today, or do you really have a bigger goal or dream or vision for yourself?

Most people do have a bigger version of themselves somewhere buried inside of their minds, but very few people actually believe that it’s possible or believe at a gut level that they can truly change over the course of a year, or longer and beyond.

What I want you to start doing this month is start thinking about yourself not just as a goal setter, but as someone who actually achieves their goals, someone who brings their vision into reality.

It starts with your belief in yourself.  If you believe that whatever you can visualize for yourself, whatever you can imagine and picture in your mind, that you can, in fact, bring that into reality, and through the process of effective goal setting and following through on those goals with effective planning and action-taking, then you can begin to make this vision become a reality.

Again, it all starts with what we’re doing here in this first month.

Having an overall goal or vision is really vital to your success.  When we look at great achievers, people that we really admire, whether they’re authors, speakers, writers, great politicians, or entertainers, we all see these people for the achievements they’ve already been able to accomplish in their lifetime.

What we often forget is they started from very humble beginnings, most of them.  Their humble beginnings usually began with the thought, the idea, the seed that was planted, which was really just a goal of somewhere they wanted to get to.

You have somewhere that you want to get to, and by setting goals effectively you can begin planting those seeds to start drawing you towards the future that you ultimately envision for yourself. 

The one you really believe you can have, if you’re the kind of person that can persist on the action that’s required behind these goals.

In the next installment of this month’s topic, I will present an exercise intended to help you picture what it is you want to achieve, so you can begin taking action.

Here for your support,

James

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