When we decide to set a bold or challenging goal for ourselves we need to feel a sense of motivation. This motivation usually only becomes real when we write it down and tell our closest family and friends about what we are trying to achieve.
Motivate Yourself To Achieve Goals
One of the best ways to help us achieve the goals and build our motivation we set is by creating a real emotional connection with the goal we want to achieve.
This could be related to weight loss, a spiritual or mental shift or be related to achieving a specific goal within your business.
By creating this emotional connection we become ‘all in’ on doing everything in our power to achieve that goal. It allows us to really get a sense of how we will feel when we achieve the goal.
Visualise Goal Achievement
If we go one step further from the feeling, one exercise to do is to visualise yourself a. achieving the goal; and b. sensing the true impact achieving that goal will have on your life and your business.
Create Your Ideal Future Vision
Another exercise in self-motivation is to actually ‘create a vision’ of who you want to be and then live into the picture that you have created as if it were already true.
This is an incredibly powerful motivation tool. It can give you a specific reason to wake up in the morning fully charged to start another day to becoming the vision of who you want to be.
You can take elements of this vision and cut it down into motivational quotes that you can read every morning or refer to when you’re struggling or have hit a roadblock.
It will always mean you are up to something, working towards something, focused on something, hungry to achieve something specific.
Exciting and Motivating
This vision or goal should be aspirational and challenging. It should be exciting, motivating and memorable.
It may take some time to achieve but it is your vision and you will know when you achieve it.
A Story About Arnold Schwarzenegger
It reminds me of a story I once heard about Arnold Schwarzenegger. After he became famous as a body builder in the documentary ‘Pumping Iron’ he retired from body building to become an actor.
His first forays into feature films didn’t go too well but he had a clear vision for his future.
His vision and goal was to be the number-one box–office star in Hollywood.
At the time this seemed like a pipe dream but we all know how his future turned out.
He became the number-one star in Hollywood with Terminator 2 grossing over £500million worldwide. He created a vision of who he wanted to be and didn’t let anyone sway him from his dreams.
A future vision can be created right now. What’s yours?
About the Author
Mark Pettit helps successful entrepreneurs create a vision of their ideal future and then build a plan and path to create it. By having this clarity, his clients are able to expand their freedom and multiply their revenue and growth.
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