Day 2

Subject: Set Your Goals, [firstname]


“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
Denis Waitley

Hi [firstname],

One of the key ingredients in a successful motivation regime is to set goals.  Your goals need to be both realistic and achievable.  So many people become lethargic and demotivated because they try to accomplish things, fail and then give up.  Others have no idea of what they want in the first place.  This is probably the main motivation killer.

Think about it for a moment…

If you don't know what you want, how will you know when you've got it?

The best way to set goals is to first of all work out why you want to achieve them in the first place – like we talked about yesterday.  Then, you should work backwards from your accomplished goal to where you are now.  

I know that sounds counter intuitive, but bear with me.

Before you do this, you’ve gotta to that; before you do that, you’ve gotta do something else – and so on right up to the point where you start. In so doing you’ll get a good idea of what the road ahead looks like, and whether it’s one you want to travel.

When you do it this way you’re also breaking a big task down into little ones – I’ll talk more about that in another installment. 

Also, by working back from there to now, you not only discover whether your goal is realistic, but also whether it is achievable.

Before I do this, I’ve gotta do that, before I can do that, I’ve got to do… Oh-oh, problem.

No you can see if you’re setting yourself up for failure before you even start, and thereby saving yourself time, money and hassle.

Warmly,

[Your Name]

PS. I devote an entire chapter of my bulletproof motivation manual to goal setting.  Find out all about here: [link to sales page].
