My current bedside reading is Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles. I just finished chapter 7, Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting. The Cole’s Notes version of the chapter is: all your goals should be measurable; how much, by when. I realized only a few of my goals were measurable.
For example, my contesting goal for this year is very measurable: I will win 100+ prizes worth $35,000+ in 2009. (I am doing well on this goal as I am 20% of the way there number wise and 43% of the way there dollar wise.)
However, some of my business goals are vague. For example, I am a guest on Ellen. Ellen who? Also, why am I limiting it to Ellen? My goal isn’t to be on Ellen for the sake of being on Ellen. I picked Ellen because I felt she is a lot of fun and would appreciate “good crazies” and “Christmas” of the hobby, along with having a massive audience. After reading chapter 7 I realized my goal shouldn’t even be to on Ellen at all, because Ellen is a HOW and the HOWs are the domain of the Universe.
I should be focusing on the end result. My biggest goal. My life purpose. My message. And the rest will take care of itself. What is my biggest goal? My life purpose? My message? It is two-fold; 1) to teach others how to bring more fun and excitement in their every day lives and 2) to think more positively, use the law of attraction and realize that you can have anything you want in life, including prizes!
Based on that goal everything else is just a tool to meet that goal, such as my books. They are a vehicle for the message, not the message itself. Being on Ellen is another vehicle for the message. Same with my website, radio show, and this blog.
Here are my new measurable business/life goals for 2009.
- I now choose to complete writing the 2nd Edition of the Canadian Edition of You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter by April 30, 2009.
- I now choose to complete writing Sweepstakes for Mommies by May 31, 2009.
- I now choose to launch my new Contest ROI Maximizer services package by April 30, 2009.
- I now choose to write, send out and have the results of the survey to determine the future of the CCA and the 2nd ANCC by May 31, 2009.
- I now choose to launch the WINuvers for WISHcraft course by July 31, 2009.
Those are the five “biggies”. I have many smaller ones such as: Twitter at least once per day, or get my newsletter to my webmaster in a timely fashion.
The small goals are the everyday steps that will get you to your end result. As Jack stated, “If I take five steps north every day from Santa Barbara, eventually I will end up in San Francisco.”
I think it’s important to use this blog to document my journey, path, obstacles, hurdles and victories because we are all the same. We are all here learning and we must help each other.
So, what are your goals for winning? Not just prizes, but every aspect of your life?
P.S. I’ll post updates over the next few months on how my current goals are coming along.
Tags: Goals, Jack Canfield, manifesting, winning
Well you’re certainly busy! What a lot of work (although I see that it’s by choice)! Isn’t being on Ellen (or one of the large talk shows) attainable — that is, could a press packet be sent to one or more of these shows that might result in an appearance, particularly right after the publication of a book? For contests, since I’ve just begun, my goal is to enter contests daily, including larger contests that require daily entering and expiring contests — I like to enter a day or two before they expire — with all sorts of unexpected prizes, just for fun! The majority of my work goes to creative writing and artwork, with a number of goals that I won’t mention here since it’s off-topic, but I wanted to share with others one thing that happened to me because I’d entered a contest — a movie review site where I entered and won a DVD is now asking me to write movie reviews for that site! I’m a great movie afficianado and after corresponding with the site owner for a bit, I was asked — I think this is the natural progression that you’re talking about, that the contest entering isn’t limited to just itself!
An afterthought — what IS Twitter, and digg, and all of those devices? I know that most people know but they may be a lot who don’t know, like me!
Carolyn, I wish I had your energy! I just started using Twitter and following you on Twitter. Like Christina, I don’t know about digg, although I have seen it on some websites.
Your goal: “I now choose to launch my new Contest ROI Maximizer services package by April 30, 2009.” is the one I’m willing to come to fruition for you. I am truly looking forward to the announcement it is up and running and if you need beta tester’s, I volunteer.
I think it is exciting that Christina is seeing one of her goals come to fruition also. It is also an inspiration for me to get to work on my own goals.
I look forward to your ‘twits’(? is that what they are called!)