This will be the last of the series on Goal Setting. Mind you we spent a great deal of time talking about the Daily Action, Daily Routine, which is the Daily Advertising you must do to reach your short and long term goals!!! Remember, and this is as simple as I can put it, without the daily action of advertising, your goals, will only be dreams!!!

Now, the question I get most often in goal setting, outside of how do I reach them, is what is the best structure. Now, in looking at being an Entrepreneur online, your goals both professionally and personally are a direct reflection and intention of the mindset of your Business. Simply put…FORGET Instant Gratification. You are building a Business and your mindset is simple, your are always building, always growing, and any Business is a long term investment. Anyone, who has the mindset that I will try to do this for a while or I will give this online thing a shot, is doomed before they ever get started. Just like the movie Wall Street Says “You can’t be a little bit Pregnant”…well you can’t be a sometimes or a hopefully an entrepreneur. You live, you breathe, you study it, you developed for as long as it takes in building and achieving what you have always wanted!!!

Now in Goals there must be very Specific Items:

• The Goal must be emotional. This goes to our teaching on the “Y”. Without an emotional and vested interest into something, it is easy to walk away from it.
• Your Goals, just like the daily goals must be written out in detail. When I say Detail, I mean down to the very last crumb of information. Accompanying those details, writing out the emotional aspect beside it is an Awesome Idea!!!!
• Have Pictures. Visualization of goals is not only important it is imperative. If you want a dream home on the Ocean…go find one that you have fallen in love with and take pictures. Why? A little saying I do: “Why are you working so hard? Look at the picture of your goals…and say this IS why I am working so hard”. The picture makes it very real and very tangible.
• Goals must be more than Money, although financial goals are important. I knew a guy one time that wanted to one day go to his Bank and cash a check for $100,000 dollars. I told him to write the check out to himself, and carry in his pocket or wallet, wherever he keeps his money. That way, there is a constant reminder of what one day, will BE!!!
• Goals, should never be about everyone else and not yourself. Although including friends and family in your goals are important, if there is not at least one self serving interest….that passion may soon fade. Here is an example of what a goal should not look like: “I want to be successful for my Family”…a noble goal to say the least. However, it is to general, no deadlines, and to interpretive to what Success actually mean.
• Last, your Goals should be everywhere. In your Office, Car, Kitchen, Family Room, Bathroom, Nightstand, on your Phone, Screen savers…any where you are they are. Real Goals often provoke Real Action!!!

The question that is the most interesting that I get, is Why Don’t People do Goal Setting. That is the easiest answer of them all. Once you go through the exercise and do it the right way, you now OWN the outcome of what you achieve. When you don’t have goals, you can always shift blame onto someone or something else.

You know running a Home Based Business is no different functionally than that of a Fortune 500 Company. The difference is, a Fortune 500 Company, has been planning for and will be planning for the years to come. However, all of those Companies, started from a Garage “See Amazon”, small 100 Sq Foot Home Office “See PayChex”, or the bedroom of a Teenage Boy, who sold a chunk for 700 million “See FaceBook”. Here is what they and you have in common:

1. Each one of these People had a Desire and Passion for what they do.
2. Each Entrepreneur had a “Y”. A Clear, Definite, and Emotional “Y”.
3. Each Entrepreneur had an Emotional and Logical Strategy. What does that mean…lets jump into it…..

First, you MUST in achieving any goal, believe in who you are and what you are doing. If you don’t have belief, you will never achieve your short term and long term goals. Yes, you can have moments of brief financial gain, kinda like winning a couple hundred bucks on a slot machine, but not coming close to why you are building a business. Understand, if you don’t fully believe in what you do, and have a real passion and desire for it, you will never be able to weather the ups and downs, because your not emotionally committed.

Second, your “Y” may be the most critical element in your plan. Understand, that building a Business, a real sustainable business, will require you to deal with alot. Ya’ know, the Internet provides an incredible service in hope and opportunity for abundance, no question. However, it also feeds into the most deadly disease out there….Instant Gratification. There are so many websites and blogs and forums that feed into the notion for $19.95 and one hour a week of work you to can be an Internet millionaire. That is simply not true. Never has been, never will be. You most likely got involved in your Business Opportunity, because they were able to tap into your emotions, get you excited or scared about your life, your future, or your income. Well, this is how you construct your “Y”:

• “Y” must be real, tangible, and emotional.
• “Y” must be something that you would commit to no matter the price or consequence.
• “Y” must be something that if you wrote it out would contain “POWER” words, and generate call to action feelings.
• “Y” must be the thing that will make you work nights, weekends, mornings, holidays, picnics, days out, cause you to miss on some of life’s moments until you achieve your goals.
• “Y” must be the thing that you draw on when the world is telling you to stop and give up…your “Y” tells you to move forward, your close, don’t stop, you are a champion, you will succeed.
• “Y” must be your Business Partner, when your family and friends have long deserted your idea, business, and are piling on the negativity.
• “Y” must be the reason you celebrate the good times. It is the reason it got you there…

Without a strong “Y”, you will find that you will give up on dreams, goals, and aspirations. You will allow doubt, complacency, negativity, and laziness into your Business and Your Life. I promise you that once you attain a clear and real “Y”, the rest is just so easy….

In this video Tony talks about why our Mindset is so important to our success. Why some individuls follow through and succeed compared those that do not.  Watching this video literally sparked a fire inside of me that was unexplainable.

This was honestly the first time I have ever watched a Tony Robbins video, other than late night infomercials, and I tell you what…this guys is the Truth! Watch and enjoy.

Click the image to play.  The video can also be found on Tony’s Blog.