Dreams and Goals

I've been going over my strategy for this year and obviously the place to start is with my dreams and goals. Craig Turnbull from Aspire has amassed millions of dollars using property as his primary vehicle.

Craig says: "A goal is not a goal until you commit it to writing. The act of placing it clearly in letters on paper using a pen held in your own hand begins the process of programming your sub-conscious mind towards achieving your goal. You should have short, medium and long term goals. If you only set yourself goals that have a ten-year deadline, you will not have the thrill and reward of achieving on a regular basis.

You do need to anchor the feeling of achieving your goals with a reward of some kind. In this way, your sub-conscious mind will know that good things happen when you reach your goals. So set a series of goals - some with a deadline of a week, a month, three months, six months, one year, five years and ten years. And when you do achieve a goal reward yourself! Train your mind to associate a positive experience with reaching your goal. Lastly, when you do achieve your goals, make sure you set new ones!

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't achieve much or become much. Create a bigger need if you want to achieve more. Realise that there are no limits, other than those you set for yourself. Now I do not mean that you can flout the Laws of Physics and learn to fly by flapping your arms simply because you had a goal that said you would achieve this by a week from next Thursday. Temper your enthusiasm with realism. If you do not, your mind will simply not believe you can achieve and your sub-conscious will just feed this back to you. Result is you will not even go close to your objective and you will unconsciously lose the belief that goals can help you design your life."

It is from Craig's teachings that I have set this million dollar challenge which will fulfill my financial and contribution goals, but at the same time I have also set my health, family, relationship and spiritual goals. It all counts to having a balanced life.