What are your goals and dreams in life?

Setting realistic goals and keeping yourself accountable to reach those goals are some of the keys to success. We’re in the middle of the year and most people’s resolutions and goals start falling off and it’s something that should be talked about.

“What The Mind Can Conceive And Believe, And The Heart Desire, You Can Achieve.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Write down your goals

Something that’s helped me a lot in the past is not just making goals, but also writing them down and making them accessible where I can see them all the time and I can refer back to them.

My bestfriend, Travis, and I would get together all the time to work on our goals for the year, and those were the best years we’d see the most growth in our businesses. In the last few years, after my sister passed away, I’ve kind of fallen off with that. I lost a little bit of focus and was kind of stagnant.

Writing down my goals has made a huge difference because it’s something you see, look at, and refer to. You can keep it in your phone, in your notes, but even better, write it in your journal or even on a small index card and keep it in your wallet so it’s always there.

Most importantly, you should always be thinking about your goals and what you need to do to reach those goals to get to that next level.

Look at your goals, what do you want to accomplish this year?

Know what you want to accomplish in your personal life, for your health and fitness, in your business, and what you want to accomplish as far as income.

Have that goal for the year and then reverse engineer a plan, so that way each day has a purpose for getting you to your goal. It might be starting with walking, then running, then eventually lifting for your health or putting away x amount of money for your savings to invest in your retirement or in another business venture.

Have a plan.

Have a specific plan.

Have a detailed plan of where you’re going. 

You may have to pivot and change course, but you always have that goal. Keep that big goal in mind of what you’re trying to accomplish this year in those different areas of your life so you have a complete picture. Not just one goal of making more money. Get specific on what you want to accomplish and work towards that because goal setting is a huge thing. 

Where do you want to be in 10 years?

Get out a piece of paper, write it out, and get detailed. In 2033…

Where do you want to be living?

What kind of job do you want to have?

What’s your personal life like?

What kind of car are you driving? Be specific.

Create a vision plan and say that this is what I want in 10 years. It might be something crazy but putting it down on paper and getting your subconscious to think about it is a huge step moving forward to reaching some of those goals.

You might not reach some of your crazy goals but then you might have reached a goal where you’re living in your dream place on a lake or maybe it’s a condo in Miami. Who knows?

Everybody’s dreams are different, but you’ll gradually reach them by mapping them out. Once you get that down, look at it, and from waking up to going to bed, write out your perfect day in your new life in 2033. 

Start planning that out because who says we can’t have that perfect day in a perfect life?

Granted, nothing’s perfect. You’re going to have problems and you’re going to have issues, but you can create the perfect environment that you are looking for in your life. There’s no reason why you can’t. A lot of times when we’re growing up, we’re being held back from the things that we’re capable of doing; and a lot of times, unfortunately, it’s the people that are really close to you that don’t want to see you reach your goals. It’s just human nature. It’s why people always gossip about each other and talk about each other. They would rather talk about people than talk about goals and dreams.

Time wasters.

A lot of times, it is the people really close to you. There is nothing negative against them, but it’s just the way we’re hard-wired as people. It’s hard. To make that a mission where you’re not sitting there doing that and holding people back…it’s like man, my goal is I want to reach all of my dreams, but I want to help as many people as I can, so they can reach theirs too. It’s more fun!

I’d rather talk about doing things, seeing things, and accomplishing great things rather than talking about others. We’re all guilty of it. I’m guilty of it. I’m making it a personal commitment to improving myself to stop doing that. It’s just a waste of time. You’re just talking about people. It’s not going to get me any closer to my goals. It’s going to hold me back and not make me the person I want to be.

My Challenge for you.

I want to challenge you to do this: Write down your dreams and goals — and I’m going to finish mine.

I’ve already got my yearly goals, that’s done.

My action plan is done.

Now, I’ve got to work on the 10-year plan. Then my perfect day to start creating what I wanted in life.

Let’s not take what’s given to us, let’s go get ours. Get what we want! It’s going to be different for everybody, but that’s totally cool. Motivate and tell yourself, “Man, I want to just keep pushing and get better!”. 

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