The Single Most Important First Step Toward Goal Achievement?
by Robert Glasscock
WRITE IT DOWN
That seemingly simple first step toward Goal Achievement is taught wherever you turn. Life coaches, seminar leaders, professional motivators, psychologists—all tell you the same thing. “Write your goal down.”
Without that initial step, you’re bound to miss your target. Here’s why.
Everything—but EVERYTHING—in your life starts in your head.
Even outer circumstances that seem to happen “to” you and apart from you depend almost completely for their effects in your life on how they’re interpreted in your mind.
Winning the lottery? Injury or illness? Falling in love? Getting fired? Landing a job? Relocating? Everybody reacts differently—psychologically—emotionally—to “outside” events. Some make grand tragedies out of hangnails. Others turn seemingly genuine handicaps and setbacks into triumphs.
The difference is what happens inside people’s heads.
In achieving Goals—any Goals—Writing Down The Goal Is Essential.
If your Goals involve current converging astrological trendlines, so much the better, since you’ll be focused to speed along with minimal delays or friction and maximum support.
The act of writing down your Goal is its first path to physical actualization in three dimensions.
Literally, the Goal in your head flashes like lightning through your synapses to your fingers and then onto paper. It is the moment your idea, your Goal, is truly and tangibly born. Not before. Without this step, it’s stillborn.
Believe it or not, it’s best to physically write your goal down on paper first. Later, you can type it into a note on your computer, tablet or smartphone for easier access and referral.
Of course you will continue to revise, outline, add details and nurture your baby from then on. As you do, it reveals more and more about itself, as does any child.
One of the best procedures for writing down and structuring your Goal(s) is a technique from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Franklin. Get a copy of “Writing for Story.”
Not only is Franklin’s method crucial for ANY kind of writing, fiction or non-fiction, business proposals and letters; even if professional writing is not your Goal, it is the single simplest and clearest system for goal-structuring I have found. (Secondarily, clear communications are essential in virtually ALL professions, to some degree. “Writing for Story” will help you with that too.)
You will learn how, in a mere 9 words (or an expanded 15), to nail down your specific targets in a dynamic, compact form your brain can readily retain and actualize.
Your Goal will finally emerge with three (or five) three-word sentences: Subject / Verb / Object.
Beginning / Middle / End.
You will know where you want to go, why, and how to get there.
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“Writing for Story,” by Jon Franklin. Get it, use it to create the story of your life, starting where you are right now.
EVERYTHING STARTS IN YOUR HEAD!
