Goal Check with Jim Rohn

Sometimes it's not whether you've accomplished your goals, it's how.

What goals did you set at the start of this year? Have you accomplished them? Personal development legend Jim Rohn says it's ok if you haven't yet achieved your goals. The more important question to ask is if you've started.

“The real value in setting goals is not in their achievement. The acquisition of the things you want is strictly secondary. The major reason for setting goals is to compel you to become the person it takes to achieve them,” Rohn says. Say you want to be a millionaire. The greatest value to becoming one is actually not the million dollars. (Seriously!) “The greatest value is in the skills, knowledge, discipline and leadership qualities you’ll develop in reaching that elevated status,” Rohn says.

Answer this question: What kind of person will you have to become to get all you want? Write down the kinds of skills you’ll need to develop and the knowledge you’ll need to gain. Your answers might give you some new goals for your personal development. Work on your goals. Your ability will grow to match your dreams. “This is the magic of goal setting. The more you work on your goals, the more new opportunities will present themselves to you,” Rohn says.

You can make big changes in your life. “You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.”

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Tips on Out-Preparing Your Competition By: Darren Hardy

Tips on Out-Preparing Your Competition

By failing to prepare you are are preparing to fail.

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success. "—Henry Ford

Planning and preparation will give you a 10-times greater chance to achieve your goals. It will reduce wasted time and effort, while improving and maximizing results.

The book Learning to Think Strategically explains how Japanese executives are required to block out at least two hours a day when they simply do nothing but think. No phone calls, computers or paperwork, no interruptions and no exceptions.

During this time they are asked to stop their movement, think through the actions they are to take that day, over the next 90 days and for the next five years. They plan and assess the strategic value of their actions and the actions of their team and organization before moving further. This process allows them to constantly stay on strategy, dismiss distracting projects and continually operate at the highest level possible.

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.""—Arthur Ashe

Here are four ways to out-prepare your competition:

1. Study: This is the advantage that Jamie Moyer and so many other superachievers exercise better than their competition and the rest of us. While others are filling their time with entertainment and escapism, superachievers are studying and improving their craft. Having more knowledge, data, background and intelligence will always give you the upper hand in any situation.

2. Develop: Develop the skills necessary to achieve excellence in your game. Brian Tracy explains that every skill you need to succeed is learnable. There is nothing you cannot learn and master to achieve anything you want in business and in life.

3. Practice:Tiger Woods was interviewed on the Golf Channel and was asked what he thought was the key to his success. His answer: practice. He gave away his secret when he said it wasn't just the time he put into practice, rather what he put into the time of practice. To practice, many golfers will go out and hit a thousand golf balls on the range, much of the time only reinforcing many bad patterns and problems in their swing. Tiger explained how he and his coach study, analyze and refine every swing, seeking to get as close to "perfect practice" as possible.

4. Play the Game in Your Head First: Before making a presentation, an important phone call or having an important meeting, play the event out in your head exactly as you want it to happen first. It is amazing how your posture, energy and expectation will change, and your performance will rise to meet it. Try it. - See more at: http://www.success.com/article/tips-on-out-preparing-your-competition#sthash.eh0R6qUj.dpuf

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Change Begins With Choice By: Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to make important changes in our lives. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.

As Shakespeare uniquely observed, ""The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."" We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth.

They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth. We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path. We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life - If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life - and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

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The Mechanics of How to Proceed By: Napoleon Hill

The Mechanics of How to Proceed
by Napoleon Hill

You know that you will probably never feel that you are completely ready to start any project. There will always be something else you could do in preparation for your take-off. But if you start where you stand and work with whatever tools you have at hand, other and better goals will reveal themselves as you move forward.

Write out a clear, concise statement of your goal, just as though you were writing a letter to a friend, explaining what it is you really desire from life. List the benefits which will result either during the process or after attainment of your major goal. For example:

1. List the information or knowledge you desire to acquire.
2. List the kind of work you desire to do.
3. List the kind of personality you desire to be.
4. Write down how much you desire to earn and receive each year.
5. List the places you desire to visit and see.
6. List the skills, arts, crafts, and sciences you desire to master.

As you list these, write out a separate statement of the motive which prompts each desire. Each one of us, as a normal human being, does everything he does in response to some one or more of the ten basic motives. Relate each one of the elements in your objective to some strong motive. This will enable you to develop a burning desire behind it and continually impress your subconscious mind until it has a complete preoccupation with the attainment of your aims and purposes.

Source: PMA Science of Success. Educational Edition. The Napoleon Hill Foundation. 1961. Pgs. 41-42.

The Compound Effect - Multiplying Your Success One Simple Step At A Time-By: Darren Hardy

The Compound Effect, by SUCCESS Magazine publisher Darren Hardy (on-sale June 1, 2010, SUCCESS Media, Paperback, ISBN9780981951249, $18.00), considers the true outcomes of consequences everyday decisions have on your life as a whole. Understanding the importance of choice, changing habits, creating momentum, surrounding yourself with the right influences and identifying your “moment of truth” are covered in this essential manual to achieving significant success in your personal and professional life. Revealing the core principles that drive success, The Compound Effect contains the essence of what everyone who hopes to become a super-achiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success. Whether you’re using this strategy for improving your health, relationships or finances, the changes are so subtle, they’re hardly noticeable. Inside you will find strategies on:

How to win—every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they are smarter, more talented or more experienced • Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress. • Painlessly installing the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs. The real, lasting keys to motivation—how to get yourself to do things you don’t feel like doing. Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you’ll be unstoppable. The acceleration secrets of super-achievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too! Uncover the secret to the formula for getting lucky, how to harness the power of Big Mo and much much more!

The phenomenal power of The Compound Effect exists in its simplicity; profound success is the result of small, smart choices, completed consistently over time. When combined with consistent, positive action, understanding the ripple effect will make a real and lasting difference in your life. The Compound Effect provides ideas and success strategies designed to produce genuine, tangible, measurable outcomes

The Compound Effect is available in bulk orders for staff development, and also available as a 6 CD Audio Program ($25.00). The book and audio program are sold exclusively at www.TheCompoundEffect.com and www.SUCCESS.com.

About Darren Hardy. Darren Hardy is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as its publisher and editorial director. As a leader in the personal-development industry, Darren is a product and embodiment of the principles he teaches. Darren was an entrepreneur earning a six-figure income by age 18, and by age 27 he was a self-made millionaire. Having led two personal-development TV channels, TPN (The People’s Network) and TSTN (The Success Training Network) and now as publisher of SUCCESS magazine, Darren has interviewed and profiled many of today’s greatest achievers, including Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Gen. Colin Powell, Lance Armstrong, John Wooden, Tony Hawk, George Foreman, Arnold Palmer, Maria Shriver, Dr. Mehmet Oz and many more. Darren has used these exclusive insights to mentor and train tens of thousands of other successful entrepreneurs. As the ambassador of SUCCESS and a messenger of hope and opportunity, Darren has appeared on national radio and TV, including CNBC’s The Big Idea, MSNBC’s Your Business, CBS 11 in New York City, ABC’s America This Morning, FOX Business Morning and many others. Through SUCCESS magazine, SUCCESS.com and his blog, Darren’s influence reaches millions of people each month. Darren’s book Design Your Best Year Ever is based on 15-plus years of refined study, practice and execution, and outlines the specific 7.5-point plan Darren has used to design, execute, stick to and achieve his wildly ambitious goals in life.

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Mastering Mental Chatter By: Darren Hardy

How to Gain Control of Information Flooding Your Brain 

Here are four suggestions to get in control of the information you allow into your head: 

1: Cut the Cord. Most of what passes for news is negative, sensational and appalling and has no contribution to your personal goals in life. Stop watching any broadcast TV, don't read the newspapers and don't listen to news radio. 

2: Selective Listening. Set up RSS feeds to pull information on specifically what you need/want to read about. Register for newsletters or blog updates on topics and subjects that are relevant to your objectives. Once they become unproductive then unsubscribe. 

3: Low-Information Diet. If you aren't comfortable getting only the most productive and relevant information you need to be more successful, then at least put yourself on a low-information diet. Find 15 minutes a day to catch up with national and world news updates—whether through a favorite news aggregator online, newspaper or single radio program—then don't overconsume. 

4: Mind Your E2E Ratio. What is the primary difference between the 5 percent who are wealthy and those who are not? The 95 percent focus their attention and extra time on entertainment while the 5 percent look to spend their extra time on education. Evaluate yourself: How much time do you spend on entertainment and how much on education? The imbalance of this equation could be the reason your life isn't where you want it to be. 

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5 Tips to Radically Reduce Stress

Here is a great article on how to reduce stress, written by my good friend/mentor Darren Hardy!

1.  Compartmentalize. The problem for most people is they are worried about everything all at once, all the time. I break what I’m concerned about into time chunks. If I have an important presentation on Tuesday, I schedule time to begin thinking about it on Monday at noon. This way I don’t “stress” about it all weekend long.

2.  Say no. Nancy (Reagan, that is) was right: Just say, “NO!” Today we have more time-saving technologies to make our lives more convenient, yet we are the busiest (and most stressed-out) society in history! Studies show that life for families a hundred years ago was a lot less stressful, when we didn’t have 90 percent of the so-called conveniences we have today. Yes, today we get more stuff done and we collect more things in our garages, closets and attics, but we are not any happier. We are over-obligated and over-scheduled. Take back control of your life by learning to say “NO!”… or at least, “No thank you.”  

3.  Feel it… really feel it. Most everyone spends the majority of their time trying to avoid painful emotions. Here is the irony of that: What you try to avoid expands in its power. Or put another way, what you resist, persists. “Whatever you avoid will come back. The more you avoid, the stronger it will return.” –Deepak Chopra

4.  End the love affair. You love the pain of your emotions. How do we know? You keep creating them. You are a creative being. There is nothing in your life you have not created. You are the cause of every effect you are experiencing right now. Frightening, but true. You have either attracted the circumstances that have caused you pain or you have just decided to CALL them painful. Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of your thoughts about it. What one calls painful another calls enjoyable. Pain results from a judgment you have made about something. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears. You could decide to have what you call painful to be joyful if you wanted, simply by deciding it to be. You could also stop attracting circumstances in your life that cause you pain, but you don’t. Why? Because you love the feeling!

5.  MOVE! Perform an exercism. That’s right. Exercise the stress out of you. You know the mind-body connection to your health! Just as a cut on your finger will aggravate your mental concentration, so will collecting mental battle wounds and pressures all day drag your body down. You store your mental stress in your body. The only way to get the stress out of your mind is to get it out of your body. Not only does exercise keep you looking good in that skimpy swimsuit – and from dropping dead of coronary artery disease – but it also is the key to maintaining your energy, and to staying in psychological and mental balance.

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