The Millionaire Secrets

Achieving your goal is not something difficult. In fact, as long as you’re serious in making your goals come true, you’re definitely able to achieve them. It is just a matter of time to achieve your goals.

One of the most common reasons people fail to achieve their goal is that they don’t even know what their goals are! Some people do not know about the power of goal setting and hence, they never set any goals in their life. While some people heard about goal setting, they just did not do anything about it. What a waste if you are not using this powerful skill to the fullest.

Another reason is that some people had set their goals, but they are not setting their goals correctly. Let me give you a very simple example. If you set your goals to make $100,000 in just one month, this will be a wrong goal. Not that it is impossible to be achieved, however, you must consider your current situation.

Just like if you’re only making $1,000 a month and you set your goals as to earn $100,000 in just one month, it will be almost impossible to achieve. This is a common mistake that most people will do in goal setting. It is true that you must think big and dream big, however, the goals you set must be realistic.

It is preferably to set smaller goals when you just starting out. This is so that you can build up your confidence because it is easier to achieve smaller goals. Don’t think about reaching the sky in just one step. You have to break down your goals into smaller goals and write them down. As the saying goes, “Rome was not built in a day”.

So find out what you really want in your life, set your goals and be realistic in goal setting. Follow through the guides in Goal Setting in my blog. There are tons of great information, tips and strategies how to set and achieve your goals here in my blog.

Here are the 5 guaranteed steps how you can achieve your goals…

1. Be 100% Committed In Achieving Your Goals

You must be committed and serious in achieving your goals. If you are not serious, you’ll never take action and I’m sure you’ll procrastinate. If you’re not serious in achieving your goals, why do you set goals in the first place? So if you’re going to set goals, make sure you’re serious about it and always take the necessary action to make your goals come true.

Too often, people are lazy to take the necessary action to make their goals come true. So you have to make it a ‘do or die’ situation. When you know that you cannot fail, you’ll definitely achieve your goals. Burn all the bridges so that you have no other choice but to achieve your goals. If you do so, you’ll put in 100% commitment into making your goals come true.

This is one of the most obvious differences between a successful person with someone who fail to achieve their goals in life. Successful people treat their goals seriously and do whatever they can to make their goals come true. However, ordinary people will give excuses, blame and delay their actions.

2. Affirm Your Goals Twice A day

Affirming your goals once after you woke up and once before you sleep is a MUST DO if you are serious to achieve your goals. Many people underestimate the power of affirming their goals. Think about it, affirming your goal is not something difficult, it only takes you a few minutes a day and if you do this everyday, the result it brings are amazing.

Therefore, try to apply this simple but effective technique at least twice everyday. If you truly follow through and do this everyday, you’ll submerge the idea of achieving your goals into your subconscious mind. You’ll keep on thinking about your goals and be motivated all the time to achieve them.

One of the success strategies is that you must always think about what you want often. Successful people think about what they want most of the time while ordinary people think about what they don’t want most of the time. The more you think about your goals, the more you’re going to take action because you’re motivated about it.

3. Stop Blaming and Giving Excuses

If you fail to achieve your goals, which most of the time you’ll face, don’t blame anyone or anything and don’t give any excuses. Instead, take 100% responsibility and try to learn from the feedback. Why did you fail to achieve your goals? Are you using the right strategies? Are you goals too high? Are you taking enough action? Learn from the feedback that you received and you’ll improve in your life.

People will give excuses and blame other factors when they fail to achieve their goals most of the time. But if you’re someone clever, you’ll know that when you blame and give excuses, you’ll lose the power to control and hence stay at the same point in your life.

Success is not about blaming and giving excuses. It is about learning and improving. The more you learn from your mistakes the more you’re going to improve. The best is to learn from other people’s mistakes. Smart people learn from their own mistakes and feedback; smarter people learn from other people’s mistakes and feedback.

4. Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Are you ready to take the necessary action to make your goals come true? You must be willing to get out of your comfort zone if you want to achieve your goals. You’ll definitely change your life slowly as you achieve what you want in your life and getting nearer toward your goals everyday. So be ready to get out of your comfort zone.

You don’t have to change your life drastically, but you must be willing to improve your life a little bit everyday. Often, it is the small changes that will bring you toward your success. For example, you can develop the habit of affirming your goals twice a day until after you’ve made this a habit, only then you start to develop other empowering habits.

5. Get Busy Paying The Price

Achieving your goal is easy, once you’ve set your goals, get busy paying the price. Meaning, you have to keep on taking action to make your goals come true. Goal setting is not a magic wand, you’ll not achieve what you want by just writing it down. You’ll have to actually do something to make your goals come true. If you’re not doing anything, don’t expect to see results. It is impossible that success will fall from the sky automatically.

Many people seem to misunderstand and thought that once they set their goals, they’ll achieve their goals automatically. The real in making your goals come true is in taking consistent action. So ask yourself whether are you ready to sacrifice and take action to make your goals come true?

These are the 5 guaranteed steps that as long as you follow through, I’ll guarantee that you’ll achieve your goals. These are not big secrets, they are just plain mindset and habits. Success require no secrets, but a lot of hard work and determination to make it come true.

Always remember this, success is about getting things done, it is a process and not a destination. So get ready and be prepare to do what are supposed to do right now. Start paying the price to make your goals come true.

Do you have a goal? And if you do, did you achieve it? Most people know that if they want to achieve success in their life, they need to have a clear and specific goal. The problem with this is that most people still fail to achieve what they want in their life even if they have set their goals.

Why is this so? Is that goal setting does not work? No, it is not goal setting that does not work, it is you that do not work! Before you can achieve your goals, you have to understand that it is action that will bring your goals come true. That means, without taking any real solid action, you are not going to achieve your goals. Action produces result. Make this clear.

Now, once you knew that in order to make your goals come true, you need to take action. However, what actually drives you into taking all the action? Most people fail because they procrastinate, they did not take enough action to make their goals come true. So what is the #1 reason you fail to achieve your goals? To answer this question, you need to know what drives you into taking action.

It is the Reason Behind that will Drive You into Action

This is the #1 reason people fail to achieve their goals. It is the reason behind you that will drive you into taking massive action. Think about it, if you your reason is not strong, will you do whatever it takes to achieve your goals? Hardly. Read: What Actually Drives You Towards Your Goals

Let me give you an example here. There is a father, who smoke all the time. And one day, he realized that he needs to stop smoking because it is a bad habit for his daughter. So he set his goal as to stop smoking. However, his reason is not strong enough, he just could not stop smoking. Until one day, her daughter cry and tell him, “Papa, I don’t want to lose you. I just cannot see you die because of lung cancer. My teacher taught us that smoking increases the chance of getting lung cancer!”

After this event, the father stops smoking completely. Why? This is because the reason has become stronger than before. When the reason for you to do something is stronger than to procrastinate, you will take the necessary to make it come true.

Take the example above, and imagine that you are that father who cannot stop smoking. And one day you went for medical check up and the doctor tells you that if you keep on smoking, you will die within 3 months because of cancer. Now, do you think that you will stop smoking and live a healthy lifestyle? You bet.

Therefore you see, when the reasons are so strong behind your goals, you will do whatever it takes to achieve it. People fail to achieve their goals simply because their reasons to achieve their goals are not strong enough. Just like if your goal is to become a millionaire, is becoming a millionaire a MUST for you? Or it is just a wish? For most people, becoming a millionaire is just a dream, it is just a goal for them to live a better life, it is not a must. And this is why most people are not millionaires.

Your Goals Must be Consistent with Your Values

Another big mistake most people make in goal setting is this, their goals are not consistent with their values. What I mean here is that the goals that you set must be aligned with what you really want to achieve in your life. If you hate mathematics, but you set your goal as to score A in maths, will you achieve this goal? Not likely because you don’t have the passion for it!

That is why I said that your goals must be consistent with your values. A lot of people set goals that they hate to achieve. Money is a very important subject in our life, people set goals to make more money in their life by doing things that they DON’T LIKE. If you are serious in achieving what you really want in your life, find out what really passionate you, then set goals in that area and you will find that it is A LOT MORE EASIER to achieve those goals.

I hope you can see it clearly now. Go through your values and find out what you really want to achieve in your life. Your future lies within your hand. Know where your passion lies and what you really want to achieve in your life today, take as long as you need to find out the reasons behind your life. Ask yourself what really drives you into taking action and what keeps you going in your life.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. Hence, take the first step to find out what you really want. Then follow through my post in Goal Setting, craft and design your road map to success.

As you may already know, goal setting is not the same as strategy planning. However, both goal setting and planning are important in our life, because with both of them, we can basically achieve anything we want in our life.

So What is Goal Setting?

Like what I told you, goal setting is not the same as planning. Goal setting is writing down WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE in your life. For example, your goals can be to buy a sports car or to earn $1 million dollar in just 3 years. These are what I called your goals. If you did not write down your goals, they will be dreams. Once you write them down, they will become goals for you to achieve.

There are many ways to set your goals, if you are not sure what are the criteria for setting an effective goal, read Goal Setting for more information. Always remember to write down your dreams, let it become more tangible in your life. Write them down and go through them as much as possible everyday, go through them at least once before you sleep and once right after you woke up.

What is Strategy Planning?

For me, strategy planning is different from goal setting. Strategy planning is something EVEN MORE tangible, they are what I called ’steps’ that you must take in order to achieve your goals. Like goal setting, you too, must write down your strategies how are you going to achieve your goals. Yes, strategy planning are the steps how are you going to achieve your goals.

Take the example above, if your goal is to earn $1 million in just 3 years, how are you going to achieve it? Are you going to venture into the world of internet marketing? Or maybe you have strong desire in network marketing? What about stock or property investment? As you can see now, strategy planning are the steps that you can actually TAKE to make your goals come true.

You Need Both to Succeed in Your Life

Yes, you need both goal setting and strategy planning to achieve what you want in your life. Without anyone of them, you will never achieve what you always dream of.

Let’s say that you have set your goal as to earn $1 million from internet marketing in just 3 years. So your strategy planning can be:

1. Penetrate your target market using affiliate marketing.
2. Set up a lead capture page to capture visitor’s contact.
3. Make use of email marketing to close sales.
4. Drive traffic to your lead capture page with article marketing and forum marketing.
5. Improve the system and make at least $500 per week.
6. Decide whether to launch another program to profit from or keep on improving the sales.

I believe that you are clear now and you can see the big picture of what goal setting is and what strategy planning is. Now, both goal setting and planning can be as specific as possible. In fact, the more specific your goals and your plans are, the easier you are going to achieve your dreams. (How to Catalyze Your Thoughts and Dreams)

Goals are just like your target, they keep you stay focused so that you will not running out of the direction where you are heading. As for strategy planning, if goal is your target, then planning will be your arrow and your bow. The arrow and the bow are how you are the tools how are you going to hit your target with.

If You Don’t Know What You Want, You Are a Walking Dead 

I hope that you are clear with goal setting and planning now. They are not the same, but their reasons are the same, that is to help you achieve what you wanted the most in your life.

If you still don’t know what you want to achieve in your life, make sure you find out the answer before you sleep tonight. Life without dreams and goals is meaningless.

Have you ever watched Resident Evil? If you don’t have a clear goal of what you want to achieve in your life today, you will be just like the walking dead in the movie. You don’t know where to go and you don’t know who you are. All you do is attacking those who still live, why? Because it is what every walking dead did!

So you see, if you don’t have a plan today, you are going to end up in somebody else’s plan, you are going to end up doing what everyone is doing. That is why 95% of the people in this world are complaining about their life, only 5% of them are satisfied with their life, because they know exactly what they want in life, they determine their life’s meaning. You are no different than the undead if you don’t have a clear goal and a specific plan of how to achieve them in your life.

Therefore, find out what you really want in your life today, make sure you write down your dreams and develop plans for your goals. The journey of a thousand leagues start from a single step, so take that first step today, make your dreams come true. Read 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Life.

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Many people know that goal setting is a MUST DO if they want to achieve their goals. However, most of them DID NOT know what they should do after setting their goals. That is why they lose the drive that keeps them going in their journey to success. It is important to set goals. Without goals, you will reach nowhere in your life, because you don’t even know where you want to go in the first place.

Besides that, goals can help to make us stay focused in the direction we’re heading. If you are still doubtful about goal setting, read this article of mine, Why You Need to Set Goals Today. Once you went through that article, you will understand the importance of goal setting and why you need to have a goal today, after reading this post!

So let us get started. What you should do once you have set your goals?

1. Develop Momentum

Yes, you have to do this, it is a MUST. If you did not do this, you are not going to create the momentum that keeps you going from the beginning until the end. Momentum is something like it is hard for you to move when you stay static, but once you start to move, it is hard to stop you down. Therefore, this is the reason you need to create momentum, to keep you going without stopping down.

So how can you build your momentum? Very easy. Let me give you an example here. Let’s say that your goal is to buy a sports car, take Honda Civic as example. Once you have set your goal to buy it, you can develop the momentum by visiting to your nearest car dealer, have a test drive! You can also ask for brochures about the car, search for pictures and set them as your wallpapers. However, the effect will not be as strong as having a test drive.

The moment you do all these, your mind will tell you that it is a must to achieve your goal, your mind will condition that goal as an important goal that must be achieved. This is how you can develop your momentum. Of course, there are also other ways you can use to build up your momentum. For instance, if your goal is to be a millionaire, you can sign-up for courses and seminars, pay the deposit, and go to your local bookstore and buy some wealth books.

That is how momentum can be developed. By the way, make sure that you develop your momentum within 72 hours after setting your goals. This will ensure the maximum effectiveness.

Momentum - Once You Have Moved, You Can’t Stop

2. Make Public Commitment

You know that by simply setting a goal, you will still procrastinate and won’t achieve it. So the next thing you must do after you have set your goal is this, make a public commitment. This way, you leave yourself no way out but to achieve the goals that you have set. Think about it, if your goal is to be a millionaire in 3 years, and if you tell everyone of your friends, what will they do to you?

Are they going to laugh at you? Well, maybe. However, it is good if they laugh at you. It makes you ever more eager to achieve the dreams of yours. This is how public commitment works. Many people are afraid of their dreams going public, they scare to death that their parents and friends will laugh at them. Do you think that people laugh at Thomas Edison the moment he told the whole world that he is going to invent something that can emit light?

You bet, people even labeled him as crazy. The same thing goes to the Wright Brothers who invented airplanes. When they told people that they wanted to fly to the sky, people laughed at them. But, look at the reality now, did they achieved their wildest dreams? You know the answer.

Hence, if you are serious in your dreams and goals, make a public commitment after you have decided to achieve them. Leave yourself no way out, and you will do whatever it takes to make it come true (In the sense of moral and ethics of course). (Your Fuel to Success, Commitment)

What if you fail to achieve your goals? Think about it, if you set your goal to earn $1 million a year, and you have made the public commitment, but you failed. What is going to happen? What if you just make $500,000 a year and not $1 million? Isn’t that $500,000 still something great? So, even if you fail to achieve what you want, you will still at least achieve something. It is better than sitting there and wait for something to happen!

3. Write Down Your Goals and Bring Them With You

I believe that you have heard this over and over again. You have to write down your goals. Without writing them down, your goals will remain dreams. You have to understand why successful people do this. Because they understand that by writing their goals down and keep on viewing them, it is going to condition their mind, it is going to remind them that they still have something to do or to achieve.

Do not underestimate the power of writing down your goals and bring them anywhere with you! If you can do this, you will see that energy starts flowing through your body, and you will have all the drive to keep you going.

So write down your goals today, stick them anywhere, in your desk, in your car, in your office, etc. This is how you can remind yourself about your goals and this is how you can keep your energy at the highest level.

Another thing is this, make sure that you review your goals every time before you go to bed, and every time after you have woke up. I believe that you know the reasons that you need to do this right? (Having a Clear Goal is Not Enough)

4. Join a Mastermind Group

In order to keep the positive energy flowing all the time, what you need to do is to find a mastermind group, and join that group. A mastermind group is a group that shares the same thoughts and goals. You need to find one to constantly motivate yourself there.

It is easy to find one. You can head to any discussion board or forums to do so. Or you can join groups like Yahoo Groups or Google Groups. Join their discussion and see how other people who have the same dreams as you tackle their goals. This way, you will be exposing to the positive environment that keeps you going. Motivation is not like something that you can do for one day and you will be motivated the whole year. You have to do motivate yourself everyday.

So there you have it, the 4 things that you MUST DO after you have set your goals. Make sure that you do not leave out any of these 4 things. If you are really serious in achieving what you want, I believe that you will follow the steps here.

One more thing, right after you finish off this article, make sure that you have your goals written. If you still don’t have a goal today, SET ONE before you leave. Here are 2 articles that can help you, 5 Questions to Ask Before You Set Your Goals and How to Think Out of The Box by Setting Stretch Goals.

Have you ever figure out why sometimes you are so motivated, you will take any action that comes into your mind and you wanted to achieve your goals so eagerly? There are also times where you feel frustrated and you don’t want to get a thing done at all?

If you have experienced these states, you are considered normal human. Everyone includes very successful person, they will somehow feel the lack of motivation as well. Just that they have a certain way to keep up their drive and they can be motivated very fast. Therefore, if you are going to achieve your goals today, you must learn how to keep yourself motivated all the times.

Many people have set their goals, and goal setting is just simple and ‘must do’ step in your journey to success. However, there are people who had set their goals, but they still fail to achieve them. Why is this so? Is it that goal setting does not work? No, it is not that goal setting does not work, it because of the people that did not work!

What Push You Towards Your Goals?

Today, if you feel you lack the drive to take action towards your goals, it is because of the reasons behind your goals are unclear. It is because the reasons for you to achieve your goals are not strong enough. That is the number one reason why people feel unmotivated towards their goals.

In fact, a goal is just like a target, it helps you to stay focused and it shows you the direction you should move to. That is why people often said that your goals must be as specific as possible. This is because if your goals are not specific enough, they will not bring you to where you want. (Read, How to Catalyze Your Thoughts and Dreams)

So you have to remember, if you are going to set your goals today, you have to write down the reasons why you want to achieve them as well. Without a burning reason, you will not drive into taking massive and consistent action. It is the reason that drives you, not your goals. Once you know why you want something so badly, it will propels you in such a way that you will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

Beside a burning reason, there is another thing that will drive you towards your goals. Read on to find out…

Your Goals Must Be Exciting

Yes, your goals must be exciting. Think about it, which one of the goals are going to drive you jump out of your bed early in the morning the moment you wake up?

1. To earn $100 in one month, or
2. To earn $10,000 in one month?

Which one of the goals above do you think will have a greater driving force on you? I bet you know the answer. So you see, the goals you set must be exciting enough. If your goals are not exciting, they will not move you into action. You know that it is easy to earn $100, all you need to do is just to work harder and take a little bit more action.

What about to earn $10,000 in one month? It is going to stretch your mind (Read, Think Big, Start Small), because by working just a little bit harder, you still will not earn $10,000. So what your mind will tell you is that you should come up with a strategy to achieve it. You know that by using ordinary strategy of what you do everyday is not going to make you to earn $10,000, you need to do something special.

This is how your mind will operate from a different frame, and this is what we want. It is going to force your mind to think more creatively. Think about it, if you are going to dream about something, why don’t you dream it excitingly and make it attractive since our imagination is free? How to Think Out of The Box by Setting Stretch Goals.

That is why Donald Trump often THINK BIG! He knows that by thinking it big, his dream is going to drive him excited and hence take the necessary action. And the best thing is, if he can do this, so can you. An extra words for you here, one of my favourite quotes from Donald Trump is this…

“My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about my future.”

So you can see how goals can drive you into action now. I believe that you will be more clearer about goal setting after reading through this article. Remember, if you feel boring about your goals, take a look at your reasons, think of why you want to achieve your goals so badly?

Clueless in how to achieve success in your life? Read, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Life.