Posts tagged Financial Goal
How to Motivate Yourself Using Imagery
Oct 7th
I am going to share a couple of great techniques on how to motivate yourself to achieve a goal or stay motivated throughout a project.
1. Start by writing down a clearly defined, achievable goal or goals.
2. Visualise what it will be like to have achieved that goal. The easiest way to start visualising it to close your eyes and see, touch, feel, hear etc (in your minds eye) the thing you want.
To really stimulate your senses don’t just think about the thing you desire but try to picture yourself as having achieved that thing and what it will enable you to do.
e.g. if I had a financial goal of earning ?100k this year to visualise a pile of money would be ok, but a much more powerful way would to be visualising what I would actually be doing with the money. So I would picture me in a nice sports car, not just a general blurred image but a definite make, model, colour, who would be riding with me etc.
I would also take a holiday with the money, but not just a general beach holiday, I would visualise sitting by the pool with a cocktail in my hand, tasting the cooling drink, dipping my toes in the water, hearing the gentle splash of the water and wind blowing through the trees.
You can see where I am going here, I am immersing all of my senses in the place. Go nuts, really have a good daydream here!
Make sure you do this visualising as it is key to the rest of the process. It starts to make the thing become ‘real’ and achievable in your consciousness and attaches real emotions to the thing making it infinitely more powerful.
3. Write down all of the things you ‘saw, felt, heard, tasted’ etc in your visualisation.
4. Go on the internet and go to Google image search and find pictures of all these things. Adorn your computer with these images. Set one as your desktop wallpaper and create a screensaver. Print them off, and stick them up around your house etc. Place them where you can see them and throughout your day you will get regular reminders which has the following benefits:
Kkeeps the goal in the forefront of your mindReinforces the goal by repetition, making it strongerInvokes the emotions you enjoyed whilst visualisingPushes the goal/image into the subconscious giving it even more powerMotivates you to work to achieve your goal
Remember, what you desire will become real, this technique helps you to strengthen your desire by making it real and belief that you will achieve it.
Are You Happy As Bees Making Honey?
Sep 6th
In this article we take a look at happiness and what makes us happy. Are you happy? When we are trying our best to work and make a living and create a life, we say things like: when I make X amount of dollars from my business I’ll be happy. The question I want to ask is, is it true?
Some people will answer YES and some will still not know until they reach that X dollar level. The thing is, money does not always equal happiness. There are a bunch of people who have money to last the forever and they are not now, or will they be happy.
On the other hand, some people relate money with happiness and security. Once you reach your financial goal you may find it makes you happy for a while. When you look at it closer you find out that soon you feel just like you did before. You start to wonder, what is my next goal and what will it take to make me happy. If you take a much closer look you see that you are in the same boat and now you just have more money. On a long term basis, making more money does not make you happy.
You have to think about what will make you happy. This is something that only you know, that is…what makes you happy. Once you can answer that you have the ‘dream’ and you can expand that dream into your reality. It is often said that we create our own future and to a degree it is true. I am not saying that you can have one hundred percent control over everything in your life. That being said, you can control your reaction. You can be happy or you can make a choice to not be happy. See, it is all up to you.
Knowing that you have a choice, you should outline a plan so you know what makes you happy and how you are going to get there. You do not have to stay on the island of happiness forever. Feel free to jump into a boat and sail to doom and gloom if you like, but once you do it might motivate you to come back to the island of happiness very quickly.
So, knowing what you know now, Plan your work and work your plan and I’ll see you in happiness land.
