Thursday, October 25, 2007

How To Get More Out Of Life In 5 Simple Steps

Here's one of the most powerful and simple secrets to help you build a better life starting today. Are you ready? Its amazingly simple and yet it works all around the world in every language. Here we go Here's the formula Dreams + Goals + Plans x Actions = Results Its an amazingly simple formula. Here's how I break it down. Everything you want out of life comes from your dreams. So how big are your dreams right now? It matters more than you think. Its also often the hardest part of the formula for many people. Most people have low expectations for themselves and their life and this causes a lot of problems for them when working on their dreams. Do you? If so, its time to supercharge your expectations and get more out of life. Remember that you will only live up to your expectations. If your expectations are to have a mediocre life, then that's what you will have. If your expectations are to have an amazingly abundant life that creates and spreads happiness for all that you come into contact with. Then that's what you will have. Its your choice. Our next stop in the formula is our Goals. This is where we break down our dreams and create SMART goals and milestones around the things we truly plan to achieve with our life. Do you remember what a SMART goal is? SMART stands for Specific Measurable Achievable, Realistic, and Time oriented. Now that you have amazing dreams and SMART goals to go with them, its time to build a Plan! I recommend you start out with a 5 year plan. A really simple way to do this is a simple and detailed letter to yourself describing what your life looks like in 5 years. From there, break it down into 3 year goals and then 1 year goals. Then we get really specific around the next 90 days of your life. Ask yourself this simple question. What do I have to achieve over the course of the next 90 days in my life and business to be on track to my 1 year plan? Your plan should be full of Actions that you need to take. A great plan is action oriented and built specifically around the results that you want to create. So now you have to execute the plan by taking action. Remember, massive action will equal massive results. Anything less will equal less results. Now, if you created amazing dreams, broke your dreams out into fantastic SMART goals, built a plan around your goals, and took Action, your results should begin to equal your dreams. If not, here's a simple strategy to get you back on track. If you don't like your results, go back and examine the actions that you are taking. If you are taking all the action in your plan and still not getting the results you want, its time to examine your plan. If your plan looks solid, its probably a good idea to look at your goals and improve them. If you find yourself stuck on your goals and not getting much more out of them, go back to your dreams. How big are they? How clear are they? Do you actually picture yourself in your dreams or no one at all? How real do they feel to you? How excited do they make you feel? Now get into action and take my homework challenge. Take the next 30 minutes to write down your top 101 dreams for your life. It can be anything. Just put the pen, marker, or crayon to your paper and write like its going out of style. You'll be amazed at what you come up with.

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