Turning Dreams Into Reality

Written by Eric Plantenberg


Welcome to 2005! The New Year has arrived, and for most people, this isrepparttar most appropriate time ofrepparttar 101364 year to stop and evaluate your goals and objectives forrepparttar 101365 next 12 months. You enthusiastically look ahead, resolving to make great improvement in all areas of your life. I am going to share some helpful ideas to help you turn your hopes, wishes, and dreams into your future reality. Goals and buildings have several characteristics that are very similar. If a building is engineered properly, and built with structural integrity; whenrepparttar 101366 storms blow,repparttar 101367 building stands; whenrepparttar 101368 earth shakes,repparttar 101369 building stands. If a building lacks that structural integrity,repparttar 101370 storms force is likely to reduce it to rubble. Your goals arerepparttar 101371 same way. If they are engineered withrepparttar 101372 proper dynamics in place; when adversity strikes, your goals will stay clear; whenrepparttar 101373 unexpected happens; you will adapt and move closer to your objective.

There are Five Characteristics of Effective Goals, that if you follow to a tee, you are guaranteed to come out ahead.

Your Goals Must Be: 1. Meaningful to You This may seem obvious, but it is important to evaluate. Isrepparttar 101374 goal you are setting really important to you? Or is it really more important to your manager, or your company, or your friends or spouse, or are you simply bending to social pressures. For you to achieve a goal in any area of your life, it is vital that you are perfectly clear why that outcome is important to you and why you will be willing to makerepparttar 101375 sacrifices needed for its accomplishment.

2. Specific and have a Due Date

This isrepparttar 101376 main difference between your dreams and wishes, and your goals. To transform something from a wish to a goal you need to become specific about what you are setting out to accomplish, and makerepparttar 101377 commitment to complete your task by a certain date. There is a big difference between wishing that you were debt free, and settingrepparttar 101378 goal to have zero credit card debt by November 1st. For a goal to be specific, it must have a quantifiable number attached to it. A wish is to loose weight; a goal is to loose 15 pounds by May 1st. A wish is to increase your sales; a goal is to increase your sales by 17%. A wish to stop smoking; a goal is to smoke ZERO cigarettes after January 30th.

How Are Your Viewing Your Time?

Written by Eric Plantenberg


In working with and coaching people acrossrepparttar country, one ofrepparttar 101363 top requests we continually receive is how we can help people manage their time better. Many people think of their time management skills in relationship to their time organization device. Yes… your calendar, Outlook, or PDA can be an extremely valuable tool in helping you to organize your time, but those things are not your time, nor do they have any power to determine where you use your time. Time Management is a mindset. It isrepparttar 101364 way you look at and valuerepparttar 101365 hours and minutes of each day. When you hold ontorepparttar 101366 mindset that there is a shortage of time, that it is scarce… that is what it becomes. When you consciously choose to look at your time in a state of abundance, it becomes abundant. Your power to manifest your reality now and will always be one ofrepparttar 101367 greatest influences in your experience. Who determines where you spend your time? You do. Who determines how you view your time? You do. Breaking old patterns can certainly be challenging and I know that you haverepparttar 101368 power to do so. While your time is a limited commodity, it is not a scarce one.

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