Notes from Bill Bartmann's webinar on goal setting:
"Never be Awed by Success; Never Be Intimidated by Failure."
Bill Bartmann (www.billbartmann.com):
1. Set crazy/big goals, not just big goals.
2. Don't call them goals--they're promises. Promises are not made lightly.
3. Clearly identify the promise--what are the details?
4. Identify your personal motivator--What's the why for the promise?
5. Create a promise plan: what is the objective, by what date, where, why (see#4), whose help will you need and how--what steps are necessary to reach your promise?
6. Review your promises and your plans 20 minutes each day.
7. Tell yourself you will succeed--the size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.
8. Tell others about your promises--success requires commitment.
9. Envision the results--see the conclusion--Bill calls this "reverse worry."
10. Start!! You'll never know every step of the journey--take it 100 yards at a time and get going!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Overcoming Adversity
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
Paul Martinelli
In 1982, I was beginning my first year of law school in St. Louis. It was an exciting year to live in St. Louis as the baseball Cardinals won the World Series that year--there was an incredible feeling of electricity in the air during the Fall of 1982. I enjoyed reliving that feeling the last few weeks as the Cardinals won the World Series again last Friday in dramatic fashion. One strike away from elimination in Game 6, the Cards stormed back to win Games 6 and 7 and the Series.
The Series MVP, David Freese, is a shining example of the benefits of taking on adversity head on and succeeding despite all odds. David grew up in the St. Louis area and played baseball in high school, but he quit playing when high school was over. He eventually made his way back into baseball, ultimately playing for his boyhood team. Last season though, after winning the starting third base position, an ankle injury limited his playing time to only 70 games. This season, a hand injury only allowed him to play 92 games. Yet when it was time to dig deep and play in the playoffs and World Series this month, his true character shined through. His "problems" as some call them or "challenges" as I suspect David calls them did not matter. David set 2 Series' records in the drive for the title of World Champions.
There are 2 months left in 2011 after today. What challenges will you overcome on the way to your best year ever? Start building momentum today for an even better 2012.
Paul Martinelli
In 1982, I was beginning my first year of law school in St. Louis. It was an exciting year to live in St. Louis as the baseball Cardinals won the World Series that year--there was an incredible feeling of electricity in the air during the Fall of 1982. I enjoyed reliving that feeling the last few weeks as the Cardinals won the World Series again last Friday in dramatic fashion. One strike away from elimination in Game 6, the Cards stormed back to win Games 6 and 7 and the Series.
The Series MVP, David Freese, is a shining example of the benefits of taking on adversity head on and succeeding despite all odds. David grew up in the St. Louis area and played baseball in high school, but he quit playing when high school was over. He eventually made his way back into baseball, ultimately playing for his boyhood team. Last season though, after winning the starting third base position, an ankle injury limited his playing time to only 70 games. This season, a hand injury only allowed him to play 92 games. Yet when it was time to dig deep and play in the playoffs and World Series this month, his true character shined through. His "problems" as some call them or "challenges" as I suspect David calls them did not matter. David set 2 Series' records in the drive for the title of World Champions.
There are 2 months left in 2011 after today. What challenges will you overcome on the way to your best year ever? Start building momentum today for an even better 2012.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thoughts and Actions
"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do." Paul Martinelli (www.paulmartinelli.net).
Such a short sentence, but full of incredible wisdom. Our past actions, thoughts and feelings have brought us to our reality right now. In order to create a new reality, we must engage in entirely new thoughts mixed with intense, passionate and unwavering feelings to bring that new reality into existence. What steps are you taking to advance toward your goals? Are you practicing visualizing your future on a daily basis--do you concentrate on that future with laser beam focus and unquestioning faith that you will be, do and have everything you desire?
Take the first big step toward your new life today and spend quiet time concentrating on your future--today is the first day of the new tomorrow you desire.
For ideas on visualization and the incredible power of the mind to create anything we aspire to be, do and have, the book The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz along with the movie/book/audio book The Secret will provide a lifetime of learning.
Such a short sentence, but full of incredible wisdom. Our past actions, thoughts and feelings have brought us to our reality right now. In order to create a new reality, we must engage in entirely new thoughts mixed with intense, passionate and unwavering feelings to bring that new reality into existence. What steps are you taking to advance toward your goals? Are you practicing visualizing your future on a daily basis--do you concentrate on that future with laser beam focus and unquestioning faith that you will be, do and have everything you desire?
Take the first big step toward your new life today and spend quiet time concentrating on your future--today is the first day of the new tomorrow you desire.
For ideas on visualization and the incredible power of the mind to create anything we aspire to be, do and have, the book The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz along with the movie/book/audio book The Secret will provide a lifetime of learning.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Why Goals are Critical to Your Success
"Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating, that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, you're not setting big enough goals."
Bob Proctor
This has been a week where several of the personal development resources which I review each day have all focused on the process of setting goals and, more importantly, why goals are necessary for all of us. Several Napoleon Hill Daily Thoughts have emphasized that having clearly-defined, written goals help us prioritize our activities each day, week, month and year. By concentrating your efforts on activities necessary to reach the key goals in your life, those goals become reality much sooner. Successful people don't think short-term. Rather, they approach their life as a long-term work in progress--they review their short, medium and long-term goals on a regular basis. Once goals are accomplished and as they grow as a person, successful people set new, more ambitious goals for the next phase of their life.
As I finished my review of Jim Rohn's classic audio program "The Art of Exceptional Living" this week, I ran across the philosophy that Jim's mentor taught him so many years ago and which Jim has taught millions of people around the world: Set goals not to receive the material gain associated with the goal, but for what you will become in order to achieve that goal. For example, starting a physical fitness program provides not only better health, but you'll acquire a new stronger level of discipline which carries over to all areas of your life. Achieving a new level of financial success will come through improving your skills in your job or profession, not solely from working harder or longer hours each week. Improving skills comes from reading, learning and studying the critical factors of your job or profession and applying those refined skills every day.
Set a goal this week to spend time to review and, if necessary, revise your written goals and set a course for an even stronger and more successful second half of 2011.
This week I also came across a new resource to use in training for the psychology of trading. By way of updating the Bibliography in my recently released book Driving Your Way To Success (www.forexmentor.com/driving/), I strongly recommend that you review and use the new app. available from Subconscious Training Corporation called "Hypnosis on the Run." I've come to know Norman and Tisha Hallett from their excellent trading psychology course at www.thedisciplinedtrader.com. This very intense 6 week training program includes the use of affirmations and weekly subconscious trainings which focus on the important traits of successful traders. I've used these affirmations/subconscious trainings for several years--they are extremely effective. The new app. also includes training for weight loss and several sports. On trading, the app. keys in on 10 areas specific to trading such as Maintaining Focus, Handling Fears and Emotions, Coping With Losses and Controlling Over-Confidence. Each training requires only 8 minutes; repeated use builds new habits of success in trading.
Have a great week and spend some time with your goals--design your future, don't just let it happen!
Bob Proctor
This has been a week where several of the personal development resources which I review each day have all focused on the process of setting goals and, more importantly, why goals are necessary for all of us. Several Napoleon Hill Daily Thoughts have emphasized that having clearly-defined, written goals help us prioritize our activities each day, week, month and year. By concentrating your efforts on activities necessary to reach the key goals in your life, those goals become reality much sooner. Successful people don't think short-term. Rather, they approach their life as a long-term work in progress--they review their short, medium and long-term goals on a regular basis. Once goals are accomplished and as they grow as a person, successful people set new, more ambitious goals for the next phase of their life.
As I finished my review of Jim Rohn's classic audio program "The Art of Exceptional Living" this week, I ran across the philosophy that Jim's mentor taught him so many years ago and which Jim has taught millions of people around the world: Set goals not to receive the material gain associated with the goal, but for what you will become in order to achieve that goal. For example, starting a physical fitness program provides not only better health, but you'll acquire a new stronger level of discipline which carries over to all areas of your life. Achieving a new level of financial success will come through improving your skills in your job or profession, not solely from working harder or longer hours each week. Improving skills comes from reading, learning and studying the critical factors of your job or profession and applying those refined skills every day.
Set a goal this week to spend time to review and, if necessary, revise your written goals and set a course for an even stronger and more successful second half of 2011.
This week I also came across a new resource to use in training for the psychology of trading. By way of updating the Bibliography in my recently released book Driving Your Way To Success (www.forexmentor.com/driving/), I strongly recommend that you review and use the new app. available from Subconscious Training Corporation called "Hypnosis on the Run." I've come to know Norman and Tisha Hallett from their excellent trading psychology course at www.thedisciplinedtrader.com. This very intense 6 week training program includes the use of affirmations and weekly subconscious trainings which focus on the important traits of successful traders. I've used these affirmations/subconscious trainings for several years--they are extremely effective. The new app. also includes training for weight loss and several sports. On trading, the app. keys in on 10 areas specific to trading such as Maintaining Focus, Handling Fears and Emotions, Coping With Losses and Controlling Over-Confidence. Each training requires only 8 minutes; repeated use builds new habits of success in trading.
Have a great week and spend some time with your goals--design your future, don't just let it happen!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Success--Jim Rohn
6 hours in the car today--plenty of time to work on personal development. Started reviewing Jim Rohn's Art of Exceptional Living audio program again. This is a classic--one to review all the time. What's success? A few simple disciplines repeated every day--working on personal development from reading or listening to books on tape/audio programs in the car or while exercising, eating right, engaging in physical activities on a regular basis and taking time to relax and enjoy family and friends.
Make today the start of a lifetime of new disciplines that will take you closer to your goals!
Make today the start of a lifetime of new disciplines that will take you closer to your goals!
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