Personal Goal setting creates more Time for You,

Personal Goal Setting

Planning to Live Your Life Your Way

Learn how to set effective
personal goals.

Many people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile.

A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven't set themselves formal goals. After all, would you set out on a major journey with no real idea of your destination? Probably not!

Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.

Why Set Goals?

Top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields all set goals. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you'll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you've set.

Starting to Set Personal Goals

You set your goals on a number of levels:

• First you create your "big picture" of what you want to do or achieve (short term or long term), and identify the large-scale goals that you want to achieve.
• Then, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit to reach your lifetime goals.
• Finally, once you have your plan, you start working on it to achieve these goals.

This is why we start the process of setting goals by looking at your lifetime goals. Then, we work down to the things that you can do in achievable time frames, next year, next month, next week, and today, to start moving towards them.

 

Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision-making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of the following categories (or in other categories of your own, where these are important to you):

• Career – What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?
• Financial – How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?
• Education – Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?
• Family – Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?
• Artistic – Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?
• Attitude – Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behaviour or find a solution to the problem.)
• Physical – Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
• Pleasure – How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)
• Public Service – Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

Spend some time thought storming these things, and then select one or more goals in each category that best reflect what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals that you can focus on.

As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want.

Crafting a personal mission statement can help bring your most important goals into sharp focus.

Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals

Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a five-year plan of smaller goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan.

Then create a one-year plan, six-month plan, and a one-month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should be based on the previous plan.

Then create a daily to do list of things that you should do today to work towards your lifetime goals.

At an early stage, your smaller goals might be to read books and gather information on the achievement of your higher-level goals. This will help you to improve the quality and realism of your goal setting.

Finally review your plans, and make sure that they fit the way in which you want to live your life.

Staying on Course

Once you've decided on your first set of goals, keep the process going by reviewing and updating your To-Do List on a daily basis.

Periodically review the longer-term plans, and modify them to reflect your changing priorities and experience. (A good way of doing this is to schedule regular, repeating reviews.)

SMART Goals

A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic. While there are plenty of variants (some of which we've included in parenthesis), SMART usually stands for:

• S – Specific (or Significant).
• M – Measurable (or Meaningful).
• A – Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
• R – Relevant (or Rewarding).
• T – Time-bound (or Trackable).

For example, instead of having "to sail around the world" as a goal, it's more powerful to say "To have completed my trip around the world by December 31, 2015." Obviously, this will only be attainable if a lot of preparation has been completed beforehand!

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Further Tips for Setting Your Goals

The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective, achievable goals:

• State each goal as a positive statement – Express your goals positively – "Execute this technique well" is a much better goal than "Don't make this stupid mistake."
• Be precise: Set precise goals, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you'll know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
• Set priorities – When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by having too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
• Write goals down – This crystallizes them and gives them more force.
• Keep operational goals small – Keep the low-level goals that you're working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward.

·         Set performance goals, not outcome goals – You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. It can be quite dispiriting to fail to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control!

In business, these reasons could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy. In sport, they could include poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck.

If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals, and draw satisfaction from them.

·         Set realistic goals – It's important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of people (for example, employers, parents, media, or society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions.

It's also possible to set goals that are too difficult because you might not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite how much skill you need to develop to achieve a particular level of performance.

Achieving Goals

When you've achieved a goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and observe the progress that you've made towards other goals.

If the goal was a significant one, reward yourself appropriately. All of this helps you build the self-confidence you deserve.

With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your goal plans:

• If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goal harder.
• If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve, make the next goal a little easier.
• If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so.
• If you noticed a deficit in your skills despite achieving the goal, decide whether to set goals to fix this.

 

It's important to remember that failing to meet goals does not matter much, just as long as you learn from the experience.

Feed lessons you have learned back into the process of setting your next goals. Remember too that your goals will change as time goes on. Adjust them regularly to reflect growth in your knowledge and experience, and if goals do not hold any attraction any longer, consider letting them go.

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Example Personal Goals

For her New Year's Resolution, Susan has decided to think about what she really wants to do with her life.

Her lifetime goals are as follows:

• Career – "To be managing editor of the magazine that I work for."
• Artistic – "To keep working on my illustration skills. Ultimately I want to have my own show in our downtown gallery."
• Physical – "To run a marathon."

Now that Susan has listed her lifetime goals, she then breaks down each one into smaller, more manageable goals.

Let's take a closer look at how she might break down her lifetime career goal – becoming managing editor of her magazine:

• Five-year goal: "Become deputy editor."
• One-year goal: "Volunteer for projects that the current Managing Editor is heading up."
• Six-month goal: "Go back to school and finish my journalism degree."
• One-month goal: "Talk to the current managing editor to determine what skills are needed to do the job."
• One-week goal: "Book the meeting with the Managing Editor."

As you can see from this example, breaking big goals down into smaller, more manageable goals makes it far easier to see how the goal will get accomplished.

Key Points

Goal setting is an important method of:

• Deciding what you want to achieve in your life.
• Separating what's important from what's irrelevant, or a distraction.
• Motivating yourself.
• Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.

Set your lifetime goals first. Then, set a five-year plan of smaller goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan. Keep the process going by regularly reviewing and updating your goals. And remember to take time to enjoy the satisfaction of achieving your goals when you do so.

If you don't already set goals, do so, starting now. As you make this technique part of your life, you'll find your career accelerating, and you'll wonder how you did without it!

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Vision Frame

"Great thoughts come from the heart",  when the heart is enthused, motivation becomes effortless. KcP

 
Giving ourselves the opportunity to write down our goal plan can help us to visualize our chosen 

active waves. 

Reflecting our goals with images through the creation of a personal vision frame, 
increases the focus and assists in the flow of our set goals, which can produce fabulous results. 


The frame represents five irreducible questions of clarity. Therefore the ability to answer five questions in a clear concise and compelling way is the litmus test of clarity. 


Using pictures, words, affirmation, images, within the vision frame, enhances the emotional and physical senses of  the goal within its completion.

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The frame represents five irreducible questions of clarity. Therefore the ability to answer five questions in a clear concise and compelling way is the litmus test of clarity - See more at: http://www.willmancini.com/the-vision-frame-the-core-tool-for-visionary-church-leaders#sthash.n84HWKWQ.dpuf

he frame represents five irreducible questions of clarity. Therefore the ability to answer five questions in a clear concise and compelling way is the litmus test of clarity - See more at: http://www.willmancini.com/the-vision-frame-the-core-tool-for-visionary-church-leaders#sthash.n84HWKWQ.dpuf

The frame represents five irreducible questions of clarity. Therefore the ability to answer five questions in a clear concise and compelling way is the litmus test of clarity - See more at: http://www.willmancini.com/the-vision-frame-the-core-tool-for-visionary-church-leaders#sthash.n84HWKWQ.dpuf

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Time for You Holistic Practitioners.

Reflective Time for You, "the work", Byron Katie :)

Who would you be without your story?

“The work of Byron Katie is a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all the anger, fear, depression, addiction, and distress in the world.  Experience the happiness of undoing those thoughts through the Work and allow your mind to return to its true awakened peaceful creative nature”.
Everything you need in order to do the work is available free from this website:   http://www.thework.com/index.php

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Ruled more-often by our thoughts, which further lead to quietly unnoticed actions, yet investigate our thoughts a little further, we find Byron Katie asks four questions; are our thoughts true or untrue?



the FOUR questions asked by Byron Katie to the thought you may be holding on to:
1. is that a true thought
2. can you absolutely know that it is true? (yes or no).
3. how do you react, what happens when you believe that thought?
4. who would you be without that thought?

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”

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Late Autumn is a good Time for planting garlic.

Planting Garlic in Late Fall - How to Prepare & Plant Garlic in Your GardenAutumn is a good time for planting garlic bulbs. A fore the arrival of early frosts there is know thyme like the presence of a bulbs growth in the nurturing soil through the winter months.

“There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.” Louis Diat

 

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“Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do.” – William Shatner

power walking enhances Time for You

what is it to power walk?......

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"





best foot forward, heel to toe, and a fast striding wobble walk from left to right with thumbs high, back straight, shoulders down, scapulae melting into the flow of  the spine, pelvis tilted forward, abdomen engaged and a straight invisible line, running like a pulley from the  base of the spine, through the spine to the top of the head, on a continuum of an endless thread, feeding to and from the heavenly anchor of the universe


But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~John Muir, July 1877
 
E'en a casual stroll, unaware of  pace, posture or invisible threads can also be known as a power walk. A simple walk, from placing one foot in front of another, enlivened through the walking journey of possible scenery, colors, skies, greenery, bricks, roads, pavements or hedgerows. Lanes, bramble, stone, cobbles or concrete; the grass, the shamrocks, the trees, the branches, the leaves, the brook, the streams, the waterfall, the river or the sea, hills, mountains, high rise blocks, houses, streets. Pathways for walking however fast or slow is set to empower thee, as the elements of the outdoor air kisses your face, your hands and your feet.

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 Power walking brings to mind someone speeding along with a mission, and that wouldn't be far off the mark. The benefits of power walking are legion, not the least of which are improved cardiovascular fitness, a leaner physique and a sunnier disposition. If you choose to accept this mission, power walking can improve your life in several different ways.

The differences between ambling along at a stroll or barreling through the air power walking are evident by your improved health if you participate in the latter. Physical activity lowers the risk of cardiovascular diseases by increasing the production of good cholesterol, which helps your blood to flow optimally. You also can enjoy lower blood pressure and reduced risk of contracting diabetes, some cancers or suffering a stroke if you commit to power walking regularly.

You can't walk away from your troubles, but you can help manage the stress your challenges cause through power walking. Energy trumps fatigue, and walking briskly while pumping your arms is an activity that puts the power back in your hands. The very act of getting outside lifts your mood and puts you into a better frame of mind. Armed with a fresh perspective after an invigorating walk, you can manage your stress rather than letting it manage you.

Getting ready for a power walk is as easy as slipping into a pair of sneakers and heading out the door. There's no fighting with traffic to get to the gym only to find all the treadmills in use when you get there. It doesn't take that much time out of your day, either: Just 30 minutes a day at least five days a week power walking will allow you to reap the maximum benefits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which offers guidelines for the amount of exercise a healthy adult should participate in daily and weekly, says people with busier schedules can break down a 30-minute power walk into three 10-minute bursts throughout the day.

You can enjoy better and longer sleeps by engaging in power walking on a regular basis. There's no pent-up energy to keep you twitching or tossing from side to side because you spent it on your walk. Also, it's not only the physical activity itself that lends itself to a good night's sleep; it's the aggregate effects of better health, improved self-esteem and mental equanimity derived from power walking as well.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. ~Mark Twain

  

Time for your inner Smile for daily life practice

Mantak Chia ~ inner smile for daily life practice

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Restoring Balance with Conscious Intention

Psych K
Unlocking your potential
 







Known also as Psychological Kinesiology.  Our subconscious mind controls all of our body’s motor functions. Such as breathing, our beating hearts, and muscle movements. What you might not know is our subconscious controls our muscles through a series of electrical signals. Thus creating a direct link between our subconscious and our muscles.
Kinesiology works by tapping into this direct link. Doctors found when you have a positive thought, your muscles are stronger. When you have a negative thought, your muscles go weak. That’s why many call this process “muscle testing.”
To muscle test, you simply hold an arm out while asked a specific question. Then with a push down lightly on the arm. Our subconscious gives its true answer based on whether your arm stays strong or weak.
Through kinesiology, our conscious mind doesn’t get in the way , our answers remain unbias and keep us learning our truth.


How can PSYCH-K help me?
AS Our subconscious beliefs establish the limits of what can be achieve.
      If life feels like a car being driven with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake, chances are there is a conflict between a conscious goals and a subconscious beliefs. This kind of conflict can show up in our relationships, job performance, self-esteem, athletics, weight loss, prosperity, even our physical health.

What is a PSYCH-K Balance?
As A PSYCH-K Balance is a process designed to create balanced communication with both hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. This “Whole-Brain State” is ideal for reprogramming the subconscious mind with new self-enhancing beliefs that support our goals rather than block them!

Getting rid of subconscious roadblocks
As PSYCH-K uses muscle testing to talk directly with our conscious and subconscious mind. This direct conversation quickly identifies sabotaging beliefs, patterns and habits that may hold us back from the changes we want to see.
The Psych K process transforms these negative beliefs into positive beliefs focused on supporting the  desired change.


Ensuring progress
By releasing emotional and energetic roadblocks to change, we clear the path to live the life desired by us. Our conscious mind must support us through our actions.
To do so, we ask our subconscious for positive words and affirmations supporting our specific change. So our subconscious and conscious mind work hand-in-hand towards the same goal.

The final step keeps our progress on track. We do this by locking a supportive belief in place.


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PSYCH-K is:

• a non-invasive, interactive process of change with a proven record of success for over 25 years!

• a simple, yet powerful process to change subconscious beliefs that are self-limiting and self-sabotaging

• a unique blend of various tools for change, some contemporary and some ancient, derived from contemporary neuroscience research, as well as ancient mind/body wisdom

• a ground breaking approach to facilitating change at the subconscious level where at least 95% of our consciousness operates.

• a process that transcends the standard methods of visualization, affirmations, will power, and positive thinking especially effective in the areas of behavioral/habit change, wellness and stress reduction

 



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