Apr
06
Set “Spicy” goals
Posted under Goals and Goal Setting
Do your goals sell you? Do they excite and persuade you? If not, you need to spice them up. Setting spicy goals is one of the tips that will excite you about your future and help keep you on track during the tough times.
Just about every goal achievement philosophy out there, including mine, stresses a daily review of your goals. With all the distractions and obstacles to knock you off track, this review is crucial to your success at achieving your goals. So considering you’ll be doing it every day, be sure to spice up your list.
So what is a spicy goal?
It’s simply a way of writing your goal so it persuades and motivates you. And the best way to do that is to create a description of your top goals so they are specific and bright with images of what you’ll get once you succeed.
A Spicy goal is like a good sales letter which persuades you to open your checkbook to buy what it’s selling. The spicy goal persuades you to get to work - to take action. The only way for your goals to move you to action is for you to write them clearly with the end in mind. Don’t leave out any details. Make them crystal clear with words that motivate you such as “I’ll look so good when I lose x pounds - I’ll be wearing those jeans I saved from high school.” Or “I’ll have so much fun in my new Blue 911 Turbo - winding through the vineyards of France!” You get the idea.
Your top goals should bring a smile to your face and a sense of wonder to your heart. Spicing them up won’t only make you feel good, exciting goals make you work harder and more consistently toward their success.
One of the keys to spicing up your goal list is to be specific - especially with the outcome you want. A goal worded “I will earn an extra $10,000 this year so I can take my family to Disney World for the best week’s vacation of our lives” is far more persuasive than “Goal 1: Earn more money this year”. You can see, touch, hear, feel and taste Disney World. But "More" as in earn more money is more or less meaningless to your future. How much is more? Is it a penny? Is it $3 million? If you can’t define it clearly, neither will your mind. The people who could help you won’t know how.
Think back to when you were a child. You probably didn’t think “I want a new toy.” If you were a boy like me you had a spicy goal like: “I want the dark haired GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip and the rope accessory pack so I can launch him off the kitchen table.” The specifics not only helped me, it provided clarity to others (my parents) who helped me achieve my goal. As a result, our kitchen table soon became the soldier training ground I had visualized all along.
There is no sense in boring yourself to death with lukewarm so-so goals. Make your goals spicy!
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Great blog entry. I’m going to go spend an hour re-writing my goals now.