Focus on Goals

Independent Sales Director Carol Scholes of Tacoma, Wash., shares these basic tips on goals:

Why Set Goals?

1. When goals are set, things happen.

2. Goals make you feel good about yourself.

3. Goals provide attitude adjustments.

4. Goals establish self-discipline and motivation.

5. Goals give you direction and purpose.

6. Goals take you where you want to go.

7. Goals create good habits and patterns to follow.

8. A goal will eliminate others from controlling your life. Set a goal to

discipline yourself. If you don't, others will.

Setting A Goal

1. Decide exactly what you want - be very specific.

2. Aim high - you should have "butterflies." Stretch your limits.

3. Create visuals. The subconscious mind accepts all information as fact and

cannot distinguish between what is real and what is imagined and believed.

4. Involve family members. Find out what's in it for them.

5. Pick someone to emulate.

6. Define where you are. Goals must be "BIG" according to your ability.

7. Determine what you are capable of in a day, a week, a month and a year.

8. Write your goals in detail and talk about them with appropriate people.

9. Focus on your goal daily. If a goal is not focused on for three days, it's as

if it never existed.

10. See goals as if they had already happened.

11. Keep your FOCUS. (Follow One Course Until Successful.)

12. Quitting is not an option.

13. Set another goal immediately upon reaching a goal.

Six Parts of a Goal

1. WOW Excitement of a goal.

2. HOW Plan to achieve a goal.

3. NOW Just do it.

4. OUCH Do it anyway.

5. VOW Commitment to reach goal.

6. POW The Victory!