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.
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