Turning Dreams Into RealityWritten by Eric Plantenberg
Welcome to 2005! The New Year has arrived, and for most people, this is most appropriate time of year to stop and evaluate your goals and objectives for 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; when storms blow, building stands; when earth shakes, building stands. If a building lacks that structural integrity, storms force is likely to reduce it to rubble. Your goals are same way. If they are engineered with proper dynamics in place; when adversity strikes, your goals will stay clear; when 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. Is 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 make sacrifices needed for its accomplishment. 2. Specific and have a Due Date This is 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 make commitment to complete your task by a certain date. There is a big difference between wishing that you were debt free, and setting 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 across country, one of 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 is way you look at and value hours and minutes of each day. When you hold onto 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 of 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 have power to do so. While your time is a limited commodity, it is not a scarce one.
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