Succeed with Your 2009 Resolutions and Goals

I recently gave a Toastmaster's speech which was very well received. I thought I would include some of the tips that I had given my audience since there were so many questions after my speech.

These short ideas will get you started on your journey to accomplishing your 2009 Goals. Good Luck.

Here are some tips on how to create clarity for yourself and your company:

Step 1: What Is Your Heart Telling You?

This is a feeling based thing. There is no logic yet. Logic is important but comes later. Get clear on the direction your heart is telling you to go. You can do this by comparing levels of excitement. The more excited you feel the more in alignment you are with your desire.

Step 2: What Is The Stretch For You?

This is also a feeling based thing. Here you get in touch with the fear factor. The more scary if feels the more outside your comfort zone you will be. Yet stretching yourself too much is not good for you. It is like going to the gym and if you lift too much weight, you might hurt yourself.

Find that balance of fear and excitement that feels right to you. Remember, keep the logic out right now. Just focus on how the direction feels for you.

Step 3: What Are You Committed To?

This step is extremely important to determine if you will really go for where your heart is telling you to go.

Reflect on what you are really "up to" in your life. Is it seriously stepping into your greatness? Is it living safely and comfortably within your means? Is it going after the unknown no matter what the outcome?

Get clear on it and commit to the next 365 days going in that direction.

Step 4: What Is Specific And Measurable About It?

Here is where you bring in the logic. The importance of making it specific and measurable is so your mind can go to work on how to make this happen.

Do not worry if you are not clear on how it will go. The how will resolve itself once you are clear on "the what" and "by when".

And clear on your commitment.

Step 5: What Is The Fun Factor?

Without fun, you will have a much more difficult time achieving what you want. Most people drop their goals within a short period of time without the fun factor.

Focus on how you will do this while having a blast. This becomes easier to figure out how to add the fun factor the more that which you are going after is in alignment with what your heart is telling you where to go.

Step 6: What Is Your Support Mechanism?

Whenever you are going after something outside your comfort zone, external support is crucial. If it is a goal you have wanted for some time and have not achieved before, this is a big one for you.

With external support you will be 100 times more likely to achieve it... depending on the support system you put in place.

The best type of support team are a small group of like-minded people who will be committed to your greatness. Then set up the structure on how you will work together for support in really going for your goal.

On a regular basis.

Once you have your clarity, stretch, commitment, focus, fun factor and support all worked out and in place, then you are ready to hit the ground running for '09.

I am heading out the door today to sit in a local park here in Merida, Mexico to contemplate this for BEST Coaches, I will most certainly do the same.

And the cool thing in doing this is the more you put into this process, the more excited you will feel about your '09.

Action Step For The Week:

Find a quiet place outside your normal surroundings to contemplate these six steps for clarity on how 2009 is going to go for you.

Make sure you will not be distracted by phones, people, computers or other outside things.

Make your plans, right them down and put them in a place to make sure you will work on them as the clock turns the year to '09.

Following are reviews of some of the books and CDs I have listed below. I'm sharing this so that you all can have a better means of deciding if these are for you or not.
That's Bob Proctor to my (actual) right side and Rev. Michael Beckwith to the left.