Success Principle #3 - Decide What You Want

Today, we are going to look at 7 categories of your life and decide what it is that you want to create or experience in each of those categories, and think about it in terms of the next 12 months as the time frame you are working with. If we were sitting here a year from now, what would you like to have happened in each of those categories? I am going to suggest you come up with at least 3 things for each category.

On the top of your notepad, label it WHAT I WANT.

Write down 3 things that you would like to achieve in the next year in the following 7 areas of your life:

1. Financial
2. Career
3. Recreation & Free time
4. Physical fitness & Health
5. Relationships with family & friends
6. Personal goals (learning, spiritual growth, personal achievements)
7. Community service, contribution & legacy

Jack mentions the following quote:

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise”. – Robert Fritz

I would like for you to try to envision what it was like for JFK when he decided he wanted to send someone to the moon. Or for the Wright Brothers who decided that it was time for humans to travel differently by creating a machine to fly. Or for Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor who discovered wireless telegraphy.

I’m sure, as Jack mentions in this principle, that the above people had other people telling them they were crazy for coming up with such ideas. Or you are foolish for thinking that these ideas can come true. Well as history shows us, all of these ideas were accomplished.

My point I’m trying to make is that any idea/want/dream you have is not only possible, but is very achievable. Remember the quote from Napoleon Hill – “what ever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Focus in on what you truly ‘want and desire, without violating the rights of others’ and develop the belief (Believe It’s Possible, Principle #4) that you can achieve it. We must remove the nay sayers and dream-stealers from our life or simply spend less time with them so you can develop the faith and belief that your dream/purpose is achievable.

I love the true story about Monty Roberts and the author of ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’. When he received an F on his class assignment and was given a chance to receive a higher grade, his response was “You keep the F; I’m keeping my dream.” We all know the ending of that true event. We all need to develop that kind of conviction in our own dreams.


Yours in success
Sam


Samantha Prinsloo, International Meta Life Coach, and founder of Master Coaching and a leading authority on Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE resources from Samantha Prinsloo now at: www.mastercoaching.co.za