How To Use Goals, Autosuggestion, Commitment And Consistency.

Goals.

Over the last month, I’ve been working on taking my personal development efforts up a notch by being more focused. If you haven’t set goals for your blog, your life, etc, I highly recommend you do so before the New Year.

The reason I recommend you do this is because New Year’s resolutions are conditioned behavior. You set them every year and it’s likely you don’t follow through on most of them because it’s the pattern you’ve had your whole life. I’ve outlined three basic steps below:

1. Write down your top 10 goals.
2. Write them in the positive, present, and first person.
3. Review them EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Autosuggestion.

If you have not read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, do yourself a favor and read it. While the book might seem a bit dated, most of the concepts from personal development and growth are rooted in many of the ideas in Think and Grow Rich. If people like Andrew Carnegie and others used these exact same principles for success, then there’s no reason not to follow them and believe in them.

One of the concepts that I enjoyed the most is the idea of Autosuggestion. Autosuggestion is similar to the concept of affirmations. Continual repetition of an idea will impress it on your subconscious very deeply and then result in external actions. Just to give you an example, one of the things I’ve been telling myself is that “I earn 5000 dollars per month in income from my blog.”

In the 15-20 days that I’ve used this I’ve come up with numerous new ideas for monetization. I’ve also developed a quarterly marketing plan for my blog. Below I’ve listed how to adopt the autosuggestion techniques into your life:

1. Rewrite your top 10 goals down every day when you wake up and every day before you go to sleep
2. Read them out loud first thing in the morning and before you go to sleep
3. If you need to a reminder, put them on your alarm clock, bathroom wall, mirror or somewhere else that forces you to interact with these goals.

Commitment and Consistency.

If there’s any reason that none of the above works for you or for anybody else, it’s lack of commitment and consistency. As I said once before, “How often do you decide not to brush your teeth?.” All of these efforts need to be consistent.

I’m guilty of not following through myself. But I’m tired of not having my life exactly the way I want it to be. If you think about this investment you are making, which is about 10-15 minutes a day, for 90 days, it’s a small price to pay for accomplishing your goals.

Let’s get there together and blow away our goals for this year. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to add them in the comments below.

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