Don’t Let Fear Get in Your Way of Your Successful Goals!

Yes—and it comes from a source that you usually think of as your ally: your mind, especially your subconscious mind.

When you have fears or concerns about what you believe it will take to achieve a goal or about what will happen after you achieve that goal, you may subconsciously sabotage yourself to avoid success.

Take Laura, for example. Laura started writing a book with a specific goal for completing it but never seemed to get there. When she considered what she thought would happen after the book was completed, she quickly realized that she had many fears, including the fear that the book would be criticized or that it would raise her visibility and make her a target of attention or that success might pull her away from her family.

When you have underlying thoughts like this, it’s no surprise that you stop pursuing or at least slowdown in taking action toward your goals.

To find out if you have any “goal stoppers,” ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen if I accomplish this goal?” and “What will it cost me to achieve this goal?”

Make a complete list of your concerns about taking action to accomplish your goal and of what might happen if you accomplish it. Take a moment to actually write them down. Some of your concerns may seem a bit far-fetched—even silly—when you put them down on paper, but some will feel very real.

The truth is, however, that those events you fear may or may not come to pass. We often scare ourselves by imagining the negative outcomes of our actions. If you’re stopped from moving toward your goal by fear, you will never know what you could have accomplished. In order to move ahead powerfully, you’ll need to remove those fears.

Now create success behavior

The solution is to create clear and believable mini-goals on the way to the big one. Behavioral change needs to be reinforced at least every 24 hours. That means you have to accomplish a mini-goal every day.

Here are the essential steps to success behaviors:

1. Have a deep desire and commitment to acquire the behavior.
2. Clearly define your specific big goal (i.e., become more assertive).
3. Outline the daily, believable mini-goals that you're willing and able to do (no mini-goal is too small; if your goal is to lose 30 pounds, an eighth of a pound is not too small a daily goal to begin with).
4. Achieve your mini-goals every day for 21 days.

After 21 days you do not have a habit, but rather the right to continue. It takes 60-90 days of repetition to create an excellent success behavior. It isn't until you've practiced the behavior daily for about 120-180 days that you become a master. Get extraordinarily clear about your goals, spend time creating a mini-goal list that is achievable on a daily basis, and then actually do them; you'll be more successful than most of the people you know, 24 hours at a time.

When Goal Success Planning, Money Is Time

“The greatest predictive indicator of money is the current use of time. It was on my morning commute that marketing genius Dan Kennedy dropped this bomb through my car’s speakers. I had been listening to and reading Dan’s work for days, almost non-stop since I had received it. But it wasn’t until that moment that I truly “got” it.

The old “time is money” platitude sounds good but has lost a bit of its punch since you first heard it. But, like it or not, the amount of value you can add is severely limited by the amount of uninterrupted, focused, productive time you are able to invest in your endeavors. Because added value is the only thing than can create financial equity, then it behooves you to get serious about how you invest every minute of your time.

Before I lose you to some sort of resistance thinking (“Who wants to watch every minute that closely?”) consider this: Love takes time, friendship takes time, and recovery takes time. Everything is a function of how we spend our time. Money just happens to be easier to quantify.

When we have no detailed plan for our time, stuff will just happen to us rather than the other way around. Apply this to your planning, and you’ve added an entirely new dimension to what’s possible and necessary to derive the most beneficial outcome. Give a lottery winner $10 million, and he’ll go bankrupt in a few years. But give the right punk kid with a dream $5,000 and he’ll create magic and change all our lives. All he needs is a little time.

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