2010: YEAR IN REVIEW! - Part 1

Wait a minute! How can we have 2010 in review when we have not yet been all the way through the year? The answer is simple -- we are going to REVIEW your plan for how you will succeed in the year 2010. Read at your own risk! You may actually CREATE a great and successful future here by following the advice from this exclusive two-part Success Tips series.

YOUR 2010 GOALS: ROADMAP TO SUCCESS OR FAILURE

A problem well-defined is half-solved. Your goals will be designed to overcome your fears and challenges to put you in the place you want to be ... it's the same thing. What do you want to accomplish this year? Are your career goals fully written down and are you looking at them every single day? Perhaps you want a new job, or to sell a particular client, or to start a new business. What you want is achievable only if you keep the goal alive and in front of you at all times.

My favorite trick here is to print out my goals on a business card-sized piece of paper in small font, then laminate it. It sits in my wallet and I see it literally every time I open my wallet. If I am standing in line after paying for a sandwich, I flip it out of the wallet and read through the goals. Takes 10 seconds. And that's one more impression I get to make on my subconscious brain. The more impressions I make, the more I am subconsciously attracted to the goal.

This system has never let me down. It is strange that when I have something on the short-goal list, it begins to appear in my life. I cannot explain this phenomenon, other than to say it works. Various "gurus" of self-help who I've asked about this have said that it has to do with a bizarre "vibration attraction." Not sure I believe that (sounds too spooky and weird), but I can tell you it is a successful system. Today, I continue to reach goals that I never could have otherwise by simply wishing on them. I carry seven goals at all times that I am working on at any moment. They can change regularly. Most are annual, but sometimes they are longer vision and transfer from card to card going forward. Once achieved, I remove them from the card and print up a new card, so I will go thru several cards a year.

Secondary goals are on a "Wish List" that I have on a tablet locked up in a safe place ... those are the "on deck" goals that replace a goal on the laminated card when it has been achieved.

YOUR NEW SELF-TALK IN 2010

Want to be a loser who never wins anything or achieves any goals? Just tell yourself over and over that you can't do it. You will be proven correct. Self-talk is so important. What you think is what you will be. Garbage in, garbage out. Fill your brain with garbage and you will achieve garbage. Fill it with your goals, achievements, plans and strategy and you will be a walking success!

Most of us at one time or another have done what I like to call Self-Defeating talk. We run ourselves down in our own mind and because of this we sabotage ourselves from achievement. While self-talk is good, some folks will hyper-self-talk themselves until they become pushy or out of natural rhythm. You must be careful of this because no one likes to be around someone who has "hyper-self-talked" themselves into arrogance or conceit. This is taking a great concept and going too far. The place you want to be is confident, yet not cocky.

2010's HELP CALENDAR

Who are you helping this year to become better in your vocation? The best in any business or career have already made names for themselves and are willing to help anyone they can. I have witnessed this firsthand throughout my career. The best, who are high up on the ladder, always reach down and help pull up the folks below them. No matter who you are or where you are, you are an honorable person and someone looks up to you. Reach out ... help others and in turn you are helped. A strange concept, but completely true. Who is benefiting from your knowledge, connection, goal achievement? Reach down and pull up the folks below you on the ladder.

I have always loved seeing the folks I work with actually achieve greatness. It is a real kick for me to see some of those I have worked closely with go on to become true success stories. I know many folks like this, and would like to hope that I taught them something along the way -- as they taught me, there is no doubt! Remember, while it may appear that YOU are doing the helping, you are actually BEING HELPED by this energy of folks around you that you guide and allow to grow and flourish. You can learn something from everyone you come in contact with; it is a proven fact!

Next week, we'll go through your 2010 Grudges, what you are SENDING OUT, and more. Thank you for teaching me!