So many peo­ple have no idea what they want or just haven’t taken the time to seri­ously think about it. They aim for noth­ing and hit it with amaz­ing accuracy.

The first and very impor­tant step to achiev­ing all your goals is actu­ally hav­ing a clear pic­ture of what they are.

Once you are clear you can start to take action in the direc­tion of your goals and fash­ion a plan that will get you there.

So let me ask you…

• Are you some­one who just can’t decide from the mil­lions of choices avail­able to you?
• Have you sat down to write out your goals but just draw a blank?
• Are you some­one who sets and achieves goals in one area of your life but falls short in others?
• Are you some­one who has no idea where to start?

Well let me share with you some hints to make this process quick, easy and rel­a­tively painless…

1. Divide your goals into 5 com­mon key areas in your life:

• Money and mate­r­ial possessions,
• Rela­tion­ships and Partners,
• Health and Weight Loss,
• Career and Business
• Per­sonal Devel­op­ment and Spirituality.

2. Draw 3 columns on a sheet of paper and title the columns as…

What I Don’t Want, What I Do Want, Why I Want It.

* When fill­ing in the “What I Don’t Want” col­umn ask your­self “What don’t I want based on past experiences?”

Some­times it is eas­ier to iden­tify the qual­i­ties you don’t want in a sit­u­a­tion because they have been your focus. This is espe­cially true if you have just left a job, busi­ness or rela­tion­ship. Write these things in col­umn 1 then write the oppo­site, pos­i­tive state­ment of this in col­umn 2.

For exam­ple:

• I don’t want to be broke – I have an abun­dance of money
• I don’t want a job I hate – I love my job
• I don’t want to be alone — I am in a lov­ing relationship
• I don’t want to be fat — I am trim, taut and terrific

* When fill­ing in the “What I Do Want” col­umn ask your­self “If I had $10 mil­lion and I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I do, be and have?”

This col­umn con­tains the oppo­site state­ments from col­umn 1 and your dreams and desires.

For exam­ple:

• I have $1 mil­lion in the bank.
• I am the num­ber 1 sales­man in my industry.
• I cheer­fully exer­cise every day.
• I have a full­time housekeeper.
• I donate 10% of my income to wor­thy charities.

* When fill­ing in the “Why I Want It” col­umn ask your­self “Once I achieve this goal, who will ben­e­fit? How will that make me feel?”

Here is where you focus on your moti­va­tion to achieve these things. Focus­ing on your WHY gives cre­ates a “vol­cano” of burn­ing, inter­nal moti­va­tion espe­cially if your WHY is some­thing out­side of your­self, greater than just you alone.

For exam­ple:

• My part­ner falls in love with me all over again.
• I make my par­ents proud.
• I have the love and respect of my children.
• I attract my per­fect partner.
• I have the free­dom of choice.

3. Next step is to arrange col­umn 2 and 3 into a list of short, pow­er­ful, present tense statements.

When you read and recite this list each day you want to achieve the feel­ing that these things exist NOW (which they do) and it’s just a mat­ter of time before they mate­ri­al­ize in your life.

For exam­ple:

• I drive a Mer­cedes 500SL
• I earn $20,000 per month
• I am gen­er­ous with fam­ily & friends
• I am in a joy­ous, lov­ing relationship

Con­grat­u­la­tions! You now have a clear and con­cise list of exactly what you want to achieve. This puts you ahead of the major­ity of the population.

Believe me, this is a very excit­ing and empow­er­ing accomplishment.

Now don’t worry, actu­ally you can expect this…you may find your­self want­ing to make changes to this list espe­cially once you visu­al­ize these things exist­ing now.

Noth­ing here is set in stone and you will find your­self mak­ing fre­quent changes to this list, espe­cially once you start to tick things off!

Being clear about what you want and com­mit­ting this list to paper is Step 1 in a 4 Step suc­cess process…this is all that stands between you and the con­trol over the hap­pi­ness and pos­i­tive out­comes in your life.

My friend Natalie Led­well from the Mind Movies Team details all 4 Steps for you in an awe­some video she just sent me…

Here is the link:

http://www.mindmovies.com/nataliesgift/?12594

You won’t believe how sim­ple and easy to imple­ment these 4 Steps are. It doesn’t cost any­thing and will start play­ing auto­mat­i­cally for you once you click on the link.

Enjoy!