“Make More Money”, ” Lose Weight”, ‘Be Nicer to Other People”, ” Spend More Time With My Family”, ” Eat More Healthily”, ‘Start a Business ” etc…
It is a brand new year again and a time when many people see as a fresh start to set New Years Resolutions. Have you wondered how many people actually work on, let alone achieve their resolutions? After coaching and training over 560,000 people in 7 countries and reading hundreds of emails a month, I can tell you that more than 90% of people never achieve their goals and make the changes they want in their life. So, if you have experienced this in the past, you are not alone.
So, why do so many people fail at keeping their resolutions, achieve their goals and make the changes they want in life? Here are three main reasons
Reason #1: Vague, Unspecific Goals
Solution: Get Clear on What You Want
The goals people set are often vague and non-specific. They set goals like ‘ to lose weight’ or ‘to make more money’. When you are vague, you will never get what you want. It is often said that CLARITY IS POWER. You need to set specific, measurable outcomes so your mind knows exactly what to do and what needs to be done to get it. For example, set goals like ‘to lose 10kg in 90 days and to weight exactly 48 kg’. When you are specific, you can then develop a plan of how many calories to consume a meal and how many hours you need to work out on a treadmill to burn ‘X’ calories per day.
When you set a clear goal like ‘to increase my income from $4,000month to $$10,000 a month in 5 months. You are clear that you have to build an extra income stream (s) of $6,000. You can possible develop a plan to earn an extra $2,000 from Internet marketing/ads from blogs, another $2,000 from trading FOREX and another $2,000 from doing part-time commissioned sales/tuition.
Reason #2: Lack of Consistent Focus
Solution: Focus on What You Want Daily
The second reason many people don’t get what they want is because they write a goal down, put it aside and forget about it until a year later. In the meantime, they get distracted and caught up with the daily struggles and demands of life.
What has really helped me is that I write my goals down on large pieces of Poster sized paper and stick it near my workstation, in my bedroom and in my office. I even design my goals onto my computer desktop wallpaper. This way, the goals are constantly IN MY FACE and ON MY MIND 18 hours a day. This makes me constantly remind myself to move towards my goals and to act in a way which I want.
Reason #3: Interest But Not a Commitment
Solution: Make a Public Commitment
Let’s face it. Many of us think of goals we would LIKE to achieve. We think it will be NICE to have. However, often times, it is not a strong COMMITMENT to MUST do it. As human beings, we are also great at breaking promises to ourselves and we start to justify. “I know I said I would lose weight but it’s just too difficult so nevermind, Nobody will know anyway’ is the common thought.
If you want to make things happen in your life, you have to make goals a COMMITMENT by putting yourself on the line. Make it very hard for you to turn back. What I often do is when I set a goal (e.g. recently I set a goal of writing a book ‘Secrets of Successful Teens’, I make a PUBLIC COMMITMENT by announcing it to my friends,family, facebook, BLOG and pretty much everyone I meet.
When you keep talking and announcing what you must do and change, your brain will give you no choice but to do it. This is a tough thing to do, but IT WORKS. So, my challenge to you is to announce your goals on my blog (under comments) so you are committed to make it happen.
The person who submits the most comprehensive and inspiring BLOG COMMENT will get a free ebook from me. The contest is on and will end on 18 Jan 2010.
Reason #4: Lack of Personal Power
Solution: Take Charge of Your Mind and Tale Action
The last thing that stops people from success is that they do not take action. They don’t use their personal power to get the results they want. What stops them from taking action are things like FEAR, PROCRASTINATION, SELF-DOUBT, LAZINESS etc…
You have to understand that you are in control of your own thoughts and emotions, Using techniques like NLP, you can learn how to control your mind and direct your focus to motivate yourself and break through negative habits and behavioural patterns. You have to learn NLP to develop focus and drive yourself to take massive action to get the results you want.
If one of your goals in 2010 is to make a significant change in your life and to really become the successful person you want to be, then make the life changing decision to attend the PATTERNS OF EXCELLENCE programme that I conduct personally, together with NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, Stuart Tan.
The PATTERNS OF EXCELLENCE is an NLP-based Personal Excellence Programme that will empower you with the tools and strategies to:
– Design a powerful life plan using Achievable Outcome Thinking.
– Eliminate limiting Belief Filters and design new empowering ones to propel you forward
– Tap into peak states like motivation and self-confidence using Sub-modalities and Physiological Shifts.
– Overcome procrastination, fears and develop the personal power to take massive action
– Collapse negative patterns/habits that are limiting your professional and personal life. Install empowering ones you can use to trigger off your peak states at will.
– Re-ignite your drive by identifying and aligning your Values
– Develop powerful communication skills to influence others to your way of thinking
This programme is offered in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and seats are really limited. For more information or to register for a free 3-hour preview workshop, call 62740105 and speak to one of my consultants now. I look forward to seeing you soon!
Next Patterns of Excellence Programme in Singapore: 4-7 March 2010
Free 3-Hour preview: 7pm, 14 Jan 2010, Adam Khoo Training Centre, 10 Hoe Chiang Rd #01-01
My Personal Goals 2010:
1. Write Six Sigma book and publish within July 2010
2. Make profit from stock 1,000,000 Thai baht
3. Exercise 25 mins/day in order to get rid of cold
4. See and finish VDO “Romance of The Three Kingdom” within March 2010
5. Buy the bond of the Government Savings Bank 100,000 Thai bath
My Businees Goals 2010:
1. Certified Six Sigma MBB (Master Black Belt)within November 2010.
2. To be promote to Associate Engineering Manager within February 2010.
Best regads,
P.S. Happy New Year 2010 Adam Koo.
Nattajit
hi,
how about a book called 2011, Our Success, Business & Life…
1) Singapore (2011)
2) Malaysia (2012)
3) Thailand (2013)
4) Vietnam (2014)
5) Hong Kong (2015)
ladies & gentlemen, I thought this may be
good for us as well…
From Mr Adam Khoo’s blog, I saw that you have
inspiration & aspiration for the future…
hi,I’m Vietnamese.
Although i am in grade 11,my English vocabulary is low,and my English grammar is bad,too.I never thought I’d write a comment by English,but today is a special day with me,so i write this (with a dictionary 😀 ).
Today I have realized an important thing from my friends,and your post(a friend sent the link of this to me),that I have wasted a lot,especially time.
In August,I joined in a course called “Tôità igiá»i!” (“i’m gifted!”) in 3 days.After the course,I felt so excited…(sorry,i don’t know any words else to describe),but after just 1 month,I lost all my attraction,so my study result in the first term was so low and I was disappointed.
I already had my main purpose,that I would be the best surgeon in my country.But I forgot it and just remember it 2 hours ago.Now that dream is burning me :D.
Truly,the kind of your post I have already read many times,but this is brief,and true.I did #1 and #3,but I didn’t do #2 and #4,so I failed.BUt i’ll revert to the beginning,again.
My goal in term 2 is very hard (my average point will be 9,0/10),but I’ll reach it,like you and what you wrote in “I’m gifted,and so are you” (I really like this book,and another that I don’t know how to call,i guess “chage your mind,determine your future”?).I also share this target to my friends in a forum,I will focus on what i want daily,and I also will take charge of my mind and tale action.(I copy what you write,hihi).
I hope you will understand what I write.
I know you are a busy person,but If you read this,can you send the names of some books and English music that make you feel attraction?Please send to this email :
begamap_1303@yahoo.com
Thank you very much.
Hello Adam, thank you for your E mails.It is an eye opener.My goals for 2010 are; start work on the internet in next 3 monhts,new level of education for internet business,weekly income 2thousand dollars from the internet in next 6 monhts,keep on with very good health.
P.S.All the best in the 2010,Ruza
My short term goals for the year 2010 are:
1)To score 75 percent marks in the 6th and 7th semesters of my Civil Engineering curriculum.
2)To crack the CAT(Common Admission Test)-2010 with the top percentile to get into the best B-School of my Country(India),i.e.,IIM(Indian Institute of Management)-Ahmedabad to pursue my MBA.
I have Committed myself for the above two goals that I’ll work really hard and smart to achieve them at any cost.These goals are the “must” for me.
Thanks
Regards
Himanshu kumar
I desire above all things to guide/coach people into living their lives. Its my divine calling. To understand life is much more than working for money. Money can also work for you. And having a basic paying job is not security, its just existing. One needs to think big, dream big and take massive action to achieve those goals. Make massive amounts money so you can bless people, help people. To instill the mentality, you dont help anyone by being poor. You dont help anyone by being weak. Life is for living and giving.
If I don’t succeed by the end of this year, I’ll be dead broke.
Last January, 2009, I made my goal for 2009. To make a million before the year ended.
The year had ended, and I’d yet to make a single cent.
Now, I’m making the same declaration. I’m going to make a million this year.
“Too ambitious? Seow ah (Crazy), you? Your head ah. My foot, if you make a million.”
Such responses. From friends and relatives.
A few so called close friends kept a straight face, and said nothing. In their minds, they were probably giving the same responses.
Was I discouraged?
Nope. Not once.
Thanks to Adam Khoo.
You see, last January, I had just read Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. Twice. (Hope this is not the ebook he’d be giving)
Before reading the book, I had made a goal of making $50,000 for 2009.
Stretch your goals!
Adam Khoo seemed to scream in that book.
Aim for the stars!
So, I boldy made that One Million Dollar Goal.
I failed. I missed my target, way off. Way, way off.
Let me rephrase that. Or rather, let me reframe that – something I’ve learnt from Adam Khoo.
I did not fail!
I had a year of feedbacks.
I had tried many things. I did not make any money.
But I did not fail.
I had feedbacks.
Now, in the present, 2010, armed with all these feedbacks, I am going to make my million.
How?
Frankly, I do not really know.
My passion?
I love to write. (Thus, this long mail)
And I’ve decided to make my million online!
“Seow ah, you! You’re too late already.”
Some of you are probably sniggering with these responses.
Am I discouraged again?
Nope.
Yes, I’m aware that the web is flooded now. Almost every grain of ideas have been washed away by would be internet hopefuls wanting to storm the world like Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, and now, Twitter.
So what is left? Nothing?
Nope!
There’s always something.
Adam Khoo had taught me that in his books.
For the past 16 days, I’ve dug and dug. And dug some more. And I’ve some nuggets.
Are they gold?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
So what if they’re not gold?
I could still use them in other ways.
They may still turn out to be platinum. Or silicon. Or Monetinium.
Whatever they are, I’m now armed with more knowledge now, thanks to Adam Khoo’s other books, like Secrets Of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses, Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires; and Stuart Tan’s Secret of Internet Millionaires. (I hope he’s not giving these ebooks either)
It’s not that I’m over praising Adam Khoo too much, hoping to melt his heart, so as to win his ebook.
Nope.
It’s more of a personal declaration.
Once I’ve announced my intention to the world, there’s no turning back.
I have to succeed this year.
I have a teenage daughter to feed. I am a widower.
Life had been tough.
That was the way I had always viewed life.
But it’s never too late to see that life have been good.
I had a beautiful loving wife. A happy marriage. Many successes.
I’m ready.
I’m ready, people.
I’m ready, world.
I’m going to make it this year.
2010.
The year I’m going to become a millionaire.
I’m still young.
I’ll only be 50 this coming April.
Colonel Sanders made his millions in his sixties, when he founded KFC.
Look out for me, people.
I’ve made my declaration.
I’ve made my goals. Very detailed goals.
I know what I’ll be doing.
My goals are very detailed, with mini goals broken into months, weeks, and every daily goals.
I will succeed.
Let’s journey together for a successful 2010.
This is Cliff.
Wishing all of you a very succesful 2010 too.
There’s not failures.
Only feedbacks.
Hi Adam
I thanks for giving me this opportunity.I alredy set up my succses program.
1.I must start my privat business.
2.I must be the first in my work.
3.I must use my time Perfectly.
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Hi Adam,
First Apologies for writing quite late my goals for 2010. Although, how we say in Venezuela “is better later than never!!”
My goals for 2010 are:
1.- Start investing in the US stock Market and make some profit! Minimum goal (as I’m starting is 5%). My strategy is simple, I would like to start using the value investor approach to begin with! At the mean time I will practice and learn more from the momentum investing strategy.
I will put aside spare money every month, which instead of having it seating in the bank I would like to invest it. I believe this is a better option and having the knowledge from your books it should work.
2.- Commit to read at least 5 investment / business books this year. I’ve been in history a terrible reader but I would like to change this trend. After reading “Secrets of Millionaire Investors” I have discovered a whole new world which I would like to dedicate more of my time.
3.- Read “I’m gifted so are you”. I think this book can help me to improve my reading technique. I consider it a “must have tool” for me.
4.- Finish (with my wife) to clear out the last of our credit cards.
(£2,500). This will save us an extra £200 a month
Our initial debt in credit cards was around £9,000 and after 1 year of taking a real care of our finances, we have cleared out £6,500 (without including the fact that we got married in Sept 2009 and pay for the whole of our wedding without getting into debt!!!)
5.- I commit to watch / read / follow CNBC and finances in general at least half an hour a day. Again this is like going to Uni again. The difference is that is probably more exciting!. I normally try to follow trends and news in my mobile device.
6.- Write a business plan for “La Arepera” (my restaurant project). Then study its feasibility.
7.- I’m now 33 years old and I promise my wife (and myself) that I will work very hard to achieve my first million dollar before I’m 40 years old.
I believe I’m currently doing the right steps.. Reading, committing, taking actions and learning from mistakes should lead me there.
8.- Enjoy my wife and my family every single second.
9.- Keep running during 2010 and participate in 1 half marathon.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Reinaldo Lopez
Wouw great. congratulation. I must achieve my goals too by 2011:
a. zero debt
b. best aquascaping company in Bogor.
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My own resolution to success this year is to create wealth from the world around me by harnessing the power of the world within me.
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