Are You Reaching Your Goals? - Millionaire Success Habits
19 Jul 2018 · 8 min
Dean Graziosi walks through a mid-year goals checkup: write them down, review daily or weekly, cut the low-priority ones, and visualize achieving them with strong emotion attached. He also covers whether you're motivated by moving away from pain or moving toward pleasure.
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I have something to share about this time of year while I'm sitting on the floor at the airport waiting for my flight. You're gonna like this one. With all the opportunities that exist today, why haven't you reached your next level of income, life, and wealth? In most cases, we've been lied to. We've been told that if you find the right opportunity and you work hard, you can be successful. And that's simply not true. Millionaires, billionaires, and successful people have realized you need the foundation for wealth, the habits. And that's exact what you'll be learning on the Millionaire Success Habits podcast. All success starts here. Okay, so as I'm recording this podcast, it's July. It might be a little noisy, but I don't care. I got a message I want to share, and you're getting it from the airport. So here's the deal. If it's July, I want to know, how are you doing with your New Year's resolutions? How are you doing with your goals for this year? Now, I don't care when it is you're listening to this. If you end up listening in January, July, November, December, it doesn't matter. But it's time for a checkup. Because if it's the middle of the year, you can do this at any time of year. It's time to decide. What goals are you lagging on? What goals are you not fulfilling at the pace of in which you wanted to achieve? What goals have you given up on? What goals have you allowed to slip? And you fall back into old routines. If you want to make this year better than last year, and incremental growth is amazing, even if it's a tiny. If it's a millimeter, it's growth. Then it's time to do a few things. It's time to revisit your goals. You should be revisiting your goals on a weekly basis, no matter what. In fact, when you really want to change your life, you revisit your goals on a daily basis. That's right. Write your goals. Look at them every single day. If you don't look at them, they're just something that you want to achieve. They become a New Year's resolution that are gone by February. If you want to achieve goals, you got to write them. You got to immerse yourself in them. You got to stare at them, you got to feel them, you got to manifest them. You got to visualize they already happened. Goals just don't happen. You have to work on it. But this is a great time of year again, no matter when you listen to this, but if you listen to it fresh and it's July for you, you're more than halfway through the year. And sometimes, sometimes we write down too many goals in the beginning of the year. So now we're at a point where you got four or five goals and none of them are getting the momentum that you hope. Maybe it's your weight, maybe it's your income, maybe it's starting the new business. So here's my advice. Right now, today, decide which goals you should just shut off. You know, sometimes to have a breakthrough, we have to break something. Sometimes in order to achieve, we have to quit something. We have to throw it away. So I would say if there's a few goals on your list and some of them you're just not going to hit and it's causing all of them to be delayed, then I would literally park two or three of your goals and say, I'm going to start those in the beginning of next year, but the ones that are left, you're going to achieve. And then right now is a time to revisit at the emotions. Right now is a time to look at those goals and say, how will I feel in six months if I achieve these? Visualize it. Don't just say, how will I feel in the future? Put yourself six months from right now and literally sit and feel, is it your weight? How will you look in the mirror? How will you feel when you walk in a room? Is it finally quitting a job that's killing it? How will it feel to be a little nervous, but be independent, working on your own thing? Register that URL. Make the first sale, make the first call. Looking at your husband, your wife, and knowing you're confident. Visualize six months from now. If those goals are achieved, how will you feel? No change happens unless there's an emotion attached to it. Nothing is memorable unless you have a feeling. I mean, think about this. I'm going to digress for a minute. Think about your childhood. Think about those moments that you remember when you were 3, 6, 9, 12. It was either the home run you hit in little league or softball or the day your parents got divorced, or it was when you got accepted to the baseball team or you got cut from the baseball team. You remember those because there's a feeling, there's an emotion attached to them, and they exponentially stick. Like, maybe not exponentially, like they exponentially grow, but they stick to you. So how do we take the goals that you desire? How do we pretend it's six months from now, we're looking backwards and they have them and attach an emotion to it so it becomes a feeling, so it gets stuck to your subconscious, so it becomes your reality, your. That's like manifesting on steroids, right? But here's something on the other side that most people don't do. What I'd like you to also do is I'd like you to pick the goals that are left that you're going to get done by the end of the year. Because if you're listening to me live as I'm doing this, this is more than halfway through the year. If you're pushing some off till next year, that's fine. But the ones you're going to get done now, I want you to think about it six months from now and you didn't achieve those goals and you need to feel that too. Sit in it. It's six months from now and you're looking back and go, wow. Another year went by, I'm still stuck in this job. Another by, I still didn't fix this relationship. Another year went by, I'm staying in abusive relationship. Another year went by, I didn't spend the time to try to date and meet someone new. Another year went by, I didn't register the URL. I didn't make the phone call, I didn't dig into the course, I didn't go through the coaching. What will that emotion feel like? And let that bathe in that feeling. Bathe in feeling like another year's gone. Bathe in the fact of wow. At this age, I thought I'd be further ahead because here's what I know. Some of you, listen, make moves based on a bigger future. You're moving towards something better. You're aspirational, you're inspired. You see the bigger life, you see the bigger house, the bigger business, the bigger success, the bigger significance in the world, the bigger impact in the world. You see it, it drives you. Some of you listening right now, that scares you. If that scares you, then fine, you're a move away from person. You want to move away from a job you don't like, you want to move away from a bad relationship, you want to move away from being broken, you want to move away, that's fine. Some of you are move away people, some of you move towards. And sometimes when you get past the move away fear, then you can be a move towards person. That's the goal is like move out of fear and move towards pleasure. Listen, what drives all of us in life fundamentally we all boil down to we want to avoid pain and we want to go towards pleasure. So if that's you, which is everybody in the world, use whatever one it takes. So again, this is your wake up call. If you're listening to me, like I said, live kind of the week I'm doing them, it's more than halfway through the year. What have you accomplished? What have you let slip? What habits have you fallen back into? Where have you let your life just go on autopilot? Pick the goals you need to get done. This is your action call. Put them on a new list. Put them on a list that they're going to get done and push. Like I said, push some of them off. But the ones you push off have an action plan for them starting next year. Get the ones done now. Remember, for future pace, six months from now, they are accomplished. Attach a feeling, attach an emotion. Cry if you have to, get emotional. Laugh, smile, pretend you're in a situation that lights you up. But then also do the opposite side. Pretend it's six months from now and none of them got done. You're still in the same place. How does that feel? All I know is this is the last five years went by in a flash. How do you think the next five years are going to feel? And if you don't make a change now, if you don't take action now, what's going to be different in your life? This is the halfway through the year wake up call. And remember, all success starts right here. If you liked this podcast, make sure you rate it and also make sure to click subscribe so you never miss out. You can always follow us on Instagram. And if you don't already have millionaire success habits, you can grab it for free at Dean's Free book. Com. Remember, all success starts here.
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