Some of us walk around with a number of goals in our minds simultaneously, which is great – however, if we can’t articulate how and when we plan to have these goals and the steps towards them realised, we may be inadvertently cutting ourselves off at the knees. For example, if one of your goals is to invest in Real Estate and another is to travel three times every year and you haven’t planned out an exact earning and budget goal, you may find yourself dismissing either or both goals in the name of the other – saying no to an overseas trip “because you should be saving for a house” and/or not adequately saving regularly because “I’ll probably end up spending it on travel anyway”. While both goals are wonderful, if they are not clear, broken down, planned and implemented, they can serve as barriers to you realising your best life. These goal conflicts can come in many forms and so the best way to avoid this is to set timelines and specific goals – visualising and articulating situations and circumstances in which you take steps every day. For example, It’s payday on November 26th and I open the banking page on my app. I’ve been tempted to buy ‘X’ all week but I know that I have allocated $300 for saving for the house and $150 for travel saving. I set up a direct debit to come out early on payday so I don’t need to face this decision every fortnight. I do, however, check it when I have woken up and colour in the rising totals of savings on my progress chart in my diary and I feel incredible satisfaction at my discipline and I know that I am closer to realising those dreams. I soon forget about spending the money on ‘x’, but if the temptation doesn’t leave, I will do an extra couple of hours work and buy it for myself on 30th November. Here the focus is not on living a life of deprivation, but realising the satisfaction of reaching long term goals and recognising the small steps along the way to build momentum. An essential component of this is to recognise potential temptations and addressing them in your visualisations – showing yourself that you are conquering them and moving them to the appropriate priority. So take some time this weekend to map out, plan and visualise your goals and process to give yourself direction and determination for the upcoming week.
LLUMI Australia 