Five Key Steps in Goal Setting

"Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it goes to work on making it come true.

When you learn to communicate directly with the subconscious mind you can begin to discover your personal power, the ability to choose your goals and to create your reality for the better.

The key language of the subconscious mind is pictures and feelings. When we learn to choose verbal language that creates pictures and feelings of our positive goals our performance begins to move in the positive goal direction that we choose.

We use Goal Setting to choose our focus areas, and then we wire this into our brain through practice, lots of repetition, to move it from our working memory to our subconscious memory.

We supplement this with Visualization and Imagery, which we control, this allows us to reflect, edit and improve our performance. It continues the wiring process and strengthens the wiring.

Work with this, week by week you will begin to create the positive results that you desire."

"The first step in goal setting is to choose what you want.

This is the seed that you plant in the subconscious mind.

This is central to Mental Training.

When we select the goal (the seed) we submit it to the subconcious mind and then we release the goal so that the brain can go to work on fulfilling it.

The function of the brain is to set and fulfill goals. The brain is a goal setting mechanism.

That is not to say that we are a mechanism, we are the spirit behind the mechanism, choosing how and when we use it, we use the mind for this.

Goal Setting is a reflection of the brain, it uses the creativity and problem solving of the right side of the brain and the structure and analytical skills of the left brain to break down our goal into easily achievable steps.

Setting Goals is essential to success, it is the mind choosing a focal point for the brain to orientate itself to."

"There are Five Key Steps in Goal Setting

1. Specificity
Your Goal must be specific and clearly defined.

Know what you want. Write it out in one sentence.

2. Measurable
Your goal needs to have a measure attached to it, this lets you know when you have achieved it and whether you are on track with it.

Having a measure allows you to break the goal down into steps.

3. Achievable
Is the goal achievable and realistic to your level of development.

The goal needs to be challenging without being so far out of your reach that you will become discouraged when you don't achieve it.

4. Record
Keep a journal or log book of your progress, this allows you to reflect on your progress and growth.

You can begin to see your habits, good and bad, to see where you are on track and off track with your goals and then make the adjustments.

5. Time Frame
Put a time frame on your goals, this gives them a context and helps you to focus.

It allows you to take an idea and bring it from seed form into reality, you break it down week after week to goal completion."


From Mental Training