Guide to Mastering Your Goals!

It's Mike Gowans. Do you got that friend that is like he always comes around and he is always in a weird mood, kind of like cheerful but maybe not, and he is always talking about oh, my job, and so and so forth?

Well, the other night, I was actually out to eat with my girlfriend, and I sat down and then an old friend of mine, that guy that comes in, and he sits down and I have not seen him in a while. I asked him how things are going and I had seen he had switched jobs. He had like his job shirt on. He had switched jobs, and so, I was talking to him. I said, "So what's going on? He said, "Well, you know the pay is better over here, and you plug into that forty-year-plan, you know you got to work for years for somebody, then hopefully retire".

When I heard that it made me cringe!

I was like, "Man! Buddy, we have got to get you working on some goals."

Today, I want to talk about how to reach your goal with mastery. I found that when you go to work on a goal, and you got to reach your goal, you develop mastery because you're working on it. You are learning different skills in order to get there. That is kind of what I want to kind of talk about here and now!

Let us talk about a goal that you want to reach this year, okay?

You Need First to Define a Goal!

Where do you want to be at the end of this year? Are things going to be different? Where are you going to get to? That is one thing that we first got to do, defining our goals, and it is got to be something that you are passionate about. I mean it is important to you. It makes you cry. You got a real big reason why you want to reach this goal, and it is so important for you to be able to reach your goal is to really knowing why you want to reach that goal. That is the first thing we need to do.

The second thing we need to figure out is the top four skills that you would need to learn or acquire or get really good at or master in order to reach your goal that year. And so, in order to do that, you think about your goal and then you pick the top four skills, and we are going to break those skills into three-month chunks.

For Three Months at a Time, You are Going to Work on One Skill, and You are Going to Master it!

As you do that throughout the year in four different sections, so each quarter of the year you are going to master that one skill. Skill number one, for three months, you are going to plug away at that one skill, not focus on anything else but that one skill that is going to get you to your goal and that is going to compile altogether with these other four skills and boost you into that result that is reaching your goal.

For this first skill set that you are going to learn in three months, what you are going to be doing is to go out there, and you are going to get the top four to six books that actually, talk about that one skill. You can find this on Amazon, Google it or ask a friend or go to your local bookstore and find the top four to six books that cover this skill set. Then, you need to go out and get the top three to five audio programs or DVDs that cover this skill. You are going to plug in those audios and DVDs - again Amazon, your bookstore, ask around, Google it, YouTube and medianaire.smartmediatechnologies.com, would also help in this!

The Next Thing that You do is You Plan to Attend One to Two Live Events!

Now, this may be a live seminar. It may be a live webinar. It may be a live teleseminar. Maybe you are listening to a live call, and that is going to be focused around that one skill that we are going to be working on for this three-month period, okay? And then, everyday of these three months, what you are going to do is you are going to read 30 minutes a day, and then you are going to listen 30 minutes a day in that focused skill that we are looking at. Yes, these 30 minutes of reading and listening may be broken into different sections of 10 minutes each or 5 minutes.

Whatever you get to do to get that 30 minutes in, you got to do that because each day that 30 minutes a day piling up over three months is going to be huge. I mean you are going to be saturated with knowledge and all the different techniques that help you gain that skill set that are going to help you reach those goals. And then, here down at the bottom, I put "in the cracks of your life" because these 30 minutes of reading and 30 minutes of listening, you might not be able to do it all at once. You got to kind of fit it into the cracks of your life - in-between different activities, in-between lunch, in-between this meeting or in-between driving somewhere. Over here, I got an arrow that goes over here to the things or in the cracks of life or what you can do while your hands are busy, your mind can be absorbing the knowledge of these skills that you need to learn, these top four skills!

When you are driving, it is a great time to turn your car into a drive time university and listen to these audios or the DVDs. When you are walking, maybe you go out and take a walk or when you are doing yard work, all these are times to do that. When you are traveling, when you are at the airport sitting, waiting for your plane or on the plane. When you are exercising. that is great time. You are charged up. You are kind of going. Your mind is just kind of open the things because your body is working so hard, or when you are cleaning. 

I love putting my phone or load up one of these audios into my phone and I will just listen to it while I am doing those things. Hopefully, going over this or looking at this is going to help you reach your goals, and if you got a friend that is maybe trying to reach some goals, why don't you share this with them? With these goals, you got to write them down. Write them down. They are physical. They are out of your brain. They are something that you can look at. It is going to help you a lot, too. Share this with someone you care about!

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What do you do to help reach your goals? Or how did these things help you or just maybe add your two cents to other people that maybe reading this, what you got that helps you reach your goals? Be sure to do that!

Compiled from Mike Gowans' Articles.(www.MichaelDavidGowans.com)