Let’s learn 10 ways to hold focus and set certain goal.

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The secret is that one should focus to success. This will keep your power concentrated, and your energy does not get dissipated by going in a lot....

Let’s learn 10 ways to hold focus and set certain goal. 

Hocus, Pocus, it’s all about focus. That’s the real magic of goals! 

‘Once set, then the final thing to do is to make our goals visible. Put our written down goals at that place from where we can see that every day. Look at them regularly, try to implement them  and surely success will follow you , as day follows night.’ 

The above success principle has been praised just for all those who have applied it. Those who do not have applied usually get left in the dust as goal-less. There are some who are able to bypass this principle and still enjoy great success, but they are few and far in between. 

In my experience with goal setting as past and present, I found that in addition to writing them out, pictures of my goals and associated items help me to visualize that I’m actually having them, just as if they are in a layaway catalogue, all I have to do is pay the price to pick them up. This allows me to think that it is just a matter of time until they arrive! This really helps to allay any negative vibes that may crop up during the adventure. 

At that time, I was rarely successful at staying consistent and focusing steady on anything important. I was just playing with life. I knew all the rules of success but was haphazard at applying them, no consistency. This does plague me from time to time. 

That is until I got serious . . . 1987. That year I quit smoking, drinking and being lazy! I dropped 60 lbs. in 3 months and worked hard by running 5 miles a day. I experienced the power of Focus! I wrote an article about how I made that happen. I called it, Set Your Mind to Win. 

That next year, 1988, I decided to take my wife to Hawaii. I remember it was a vacation trip though that I really wanted for my wife and me. It was her dream to go to Hawaii; she had never been there. So, we planned to visit for two weeks in October that year. It all seems so long ago, actually it was. It was 2004 at the time of this writing. 

Back then, I wasn’t having any resources so that I can take that for the trip, and I didn’t know how I was going to do it. But I did know that I wanted it for my wife and me. This was a huge amount to come up in such a short time. For me this was nigh impossible! There were no past references for me to even think about this. I didn’t even have any savings account at that time. 

Being in Sales and Supervision at that time, one of the procedures make it easy for people to buy as they can break down the necessary actions, payments etc. and make it ridiculously simple, so that they could believe it was not only possible but absolutely doable! I brainstormed all the things we wanted to have and wanted to do on our trip, all the cost was calculated and totaled up. I would need at least $8,000.00 in order to make it happen. I needed to break this down into timelines. 

I pushed the negative self-talk aside every time it came up  (And it came up often, believe me) I came up with ideas I needed to act on and I started to break them down into 5 smaller actions, and then into 5 smaller actions until I came up with a credulously simple thing, that I believe I can do and that I will do right there and then, and just waded into them one at a time. 

I booked the trip in May, without having all my ducks in a row, heh, heh. I took time off from work and told all my colleagues about my plans, I couldn’t back out. Talked about public commitment, and commitment to my wife is not easily broken, so I pulled out all the stops to make this trip happen. I tightened my belt on a lot of things that was not needed and worked my tail off to earn extra income so I could save some for the trip. I lived and breathed that trip every day. 

I surrounded myself in my car, house, and office, with post cards, pictures, magazine articles, travel books, videos, suntan lotion, even a fake grass skirt that I picked up in a yard sale and hung around my bathroom mirror. 

I made an audio recording and listened to my own voice on tape of how I was making things happen, and I visualized (imagined) how successful I was at taking each of the actions necessary. I set out my intention. (Positive Self Talk in my car) This was weird stuff, believe me I felt weird at the beginning. 

I talked about it all the time. It served its purpose though and kept my focus strong and concentrated my power! I never let myself forget for a moment because I wanted this Hawaii trip badly, and that I was on the hook for this. I kept reminding myself in every way possible about the importance of this trip, I mean, almost like how life or death is important. 

Well, I made that trip happen just the way I wanted it, and my wife was ecstatic. One week on Oahu, and one week on Maui. We took 33 rolls of film in two weeks, a visual reminder of the fun and good times we had. My wife had her dream trip, and I had a real-life reference that would change how I went after my goals forever. 

Making this trip happen really made it clear to me that goal setting really works a lot, as long as you keep your eye on the ball. Since then, I work on my goals regularly, always keeping them in mind. I have a dream collage of pictures framed on my wall, and I have a long list of ‘wishes’ that I have to act on. I just must pump up the volume from time to time. 

Not being perfect but making things possible is a big deal. After I met this challenge, I surely don’t have any excuse for not having or doing something .The best reward I got from that experience was the feeling that I could achieve basically anything providing I stoked my desire high enough, and managed my thoughts and focus. 

When you have one gargantuan goal, that by going after it, you automatically achieve all your others, this helps to keep your focus concentrated, and your energy does not get dissipated by going in a lot of different directions. Just like Napoleon Hill writes about how powerful a ‘Magnificent Obsession’ can be. 

Please do not take this as ‘bragging’ as my intention is only to demonstrate and that anyone can do, have, or be whatever they want if you pay the price asked. Who in their right mind would brag about a small amount like $8,000.00 anyway currently? 

Let’s focus on some of the  activities  I used for the successful goal implementation:

1. Write and review goal frequently.

2. Surrounded myself with associate items, pictures, smells, feels, and/or tastes.

3. Think as if it’s on layaway, it’s in the bank, and confidently pay the price.

4. Future references should be created by visualizing that you have received it already.

5. Talk about them all the time and record my own enthusiastic voice to listen to.

6. Control my focus by crowding out the negative, overwhelming it with positive.

7. Break down my actions to the ridiculously simple, be specific.

8. Committed to myself, my wife, and everyone I cared about. (built up importance)

9. Set my mind to ‘win’, there is no other option to consider.

10. Have faith that this will happen, use the peak to peek principle. 

Focus should be on success. Build momentum in all things instead of distraction. It is all about focus. You can make this work for you too. The real question to ask yourself is: 

How can I take these 10 ‘focus’ strategies, use them as a checklist of sorts, apply them to my most important goal, make them work for me, and enjoy the process? 

Well, how can you? And how will you? You Can Do It! 

Go for it. 

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