GOAL SETTING :Upgrading your thinking upgrades your actions, and this produces success.

 

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The difference between success and failure is found in one’s attitudes toward setbacks, handicaps, discouragements, and other disappointing situations. 

Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you lose, learn, and then go on to win next time. Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then correct them. This makes you a WINNER IN LIFE .Stop blaming luck. Research each setback. Find out what went wrong. Remember, blaming luck never got anyone where he wanted to go. Blend persistence with experimentation. Stay with your goal but don’t beat your head against a stone wall. Try new approaches. Experiment. Remember, there is a good side in every situation. Find it. See the good side and whip discouragement.

 

LEVERAGE THE POWER OF BELIEF

Here are the three guides to acquiring and strengthening the power of belief:

Think success, don’t think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, “I’ll win,” not “I’ll probably lose.” When you compete with someone else, think, “I’m equal to the best,” not “I’m outclassed.” When opportunity appears, think “I can do it,” never “I can’t.” Let the master thought “I will succeed” dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure. Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not supermen. Success does not require a super intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn’t based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never—yes, never—sell yourself short.   Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier—certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans.

A GOAL SETTING EXERCISE  TO HELP YOU GROW.

Get a clear fix on where you want to go. Create an image of yourself ten years from now.

Write out your ten-year plan. Your life is too important to be left to chance.Put down on paper what you want to accomplish in your work, your home, and your social departments.

Surrender yourself to your desires. Set goals to get more energy. Set goals to get things done. Set goals and discover the real enjoyment of living.

Let your major goal be your automatic pilot. When you let your goal absorb you, you’ll find yourself making the right decisions to reach your goal.

Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard each task you perform, regardless of how small it may seem, as a step toward your goal.

Build thirty-day goals. Day-by-day effort pays off.

Take detours in your stride. A detour simply means another route.It should never mean surrendering the goal.

Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.

 

CULTIVATE THE ACHIEVER’S MINDSET

1.   Don’t sell yourself short.Conquer the crime of self-deprecation.Concentrate on your assets. You’re better than you think you are.

2.   Use the big thinker’s vocabulary. Use big, bright, cheerful words.Use words that promise victory, hope, happiness, pleasure; avoid words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat, grief.

3.   Stretch your vision. See what can be,not just what is. Practice adding value to things, to people, and to yourself.

4.   Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.

5.   Think above trivial things. Focus your attention on big objectives. Before getting involved in a petty matter, ask yourself, “Is it really important?”

6.   Grow big by thinking big!

CONCLUDING 

Upgrading your thinking upgrades your actions, and this produces success. Here is an easy way to help you make more of yourself by thinking like important people think. 

Look important; it helps you think important. Your appearance talks to you. Be sure it lifts your spirits and builds your confidence. Your appearance talks to others. Make certain it says, “Here is an important person: intelligent, prosperous, and dependable.”
Think your work is important. Think this way, and you will receive mental signals on how to do your job better. Think your work is important, and your subordinates will think their work is important too.
Give yourself a pep talk several times daily. Build a“sell-yourself-to-yourself” commercial. Remind yourself at every opportunity that you’re a first-class person.
In all of life’s situations, ask yourself, “Is this the way an important person thinks?” Then obey the answer

 

With best wishes

Dr Wilfred Monteiro