10 Steps to Goal Getting by Zig Zigler

I like Zig Ziggler! I think I have listened to a few of his books, read a few others, and heard him quoted a few thousand times... Bruce Stopher just posted this list on Facebook. I have been struggling with getting some goals accomplished, so I am going to take these ten steps seriously and hope you will too!

These ten steps will help you achieve your goals now or as you make them for 2009.

1. Make the commitment to reach your goal. "One person with a commitment is worth a hundred who only have an interest." Mary Crowley.

2. Commit yourself to detailed accountability. Record your progress toward your goals every night, and list the six most important things you need to do the next day. Daily discipline is the key to reaching your goals.

3. Build your life on a sold foundation of honesty, character, integrity, trust, love, and loyalty. This foundation will give you an honest shot at reaching any goal you have set properly.

4. Break your intermediate and long-range goals into increments.

5. Be prepared to change. You can't control the weather, inflation, interest rates, Wall Street, etc. Change your decision to move toward a goal carefully--but be willing to change your direction to get there as conditions and circumstances demand.

6. Share your "give-up" goals (i.e., give up smoking, being rude, procrastinating, being late, eating too much, etc.) with many people. Chances are excellent they're going to encourage you.

7. Become a team player. Remember: You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

8. See the reaching. In your imagination see yourself receiving that diploma, getting that job or promotion, making that speech, moving into the home of your dreams, achieving that weight-loss goal, etc.

9. Each time you reach a goal your confidence will grow so that you can do bigger and better things. After accomplishing any goal, record it in your journal, Weekly Planner or Palm Pilot.

10. Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals--what you will become is the winner you were born to be!

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There are many things I already do that have become wonderful habits, others not so good that need curtailing. Here are the items I need to work on a little more diligently. Anyone up for accountability? I mean real accountability?

Daily Goals:

1. Pray, read portions of the Bible and another good book, and journal it. (30 min.)
2. Mandarin study. In class time (3 hours) and studying outside (3 hours). Going to class is easy, studying outside will require accountability - anyone interested? I should spend 3 hours to preview, prep, and review. Then I want to study other material for an hour or so... maybe this is unrealistic.
3. Fitness - going to the gym at minimum 3 times each week.
4. Check Facebook, email, and such less than 2 times a day.

Weekly Goals:

1. Take a Sabbath (12 hours at minimum)
2. Call family
3. Email Newsletter

Monthly Goals:

1. Have a full Sabbath day

Yearly Goals:

1. Read the Bible through - accomplished in daily goals
   
2. Take a relaxing vacation with Jaime

Do you know of any other goals I should have?