September 14th, 2011 
jvremec
8 Steps to Successful Goal Setting – Or, How to Write Your Vision and Make it Plain!
There is not a success mentoring expert alive today who won’t tell you that you have to get some clarity over your goals – and the best way to do that is to write them down.
“If you don?t know where you?re going,” wrote George Harrison, “any road will take you there”.
On the other hand, Emerson observed that,
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
I love the first four words of that quotation: “THE WORLD MAKES WAY…” If you have a clear goal and a strong will, the world becomes pliable to your intention. That is an amazing and empowering thought if ever there was one!
In short, you have far more chance of realizing your dreams if you first set clear goals. You have to “write your vision and make it plain” – and here is my recommended procedure for doing so:
1. First of all, fix in your mind a clear picture of what you want. A vague idea lacks vigour and is of little value. Write down exactly what you want.
For example, don’t just write, “I want a new house”, but instead write “I want a stone-built, detached house with six bedrooms, set in two acres of land in the Yorkshire Dales, England. (They don’t come cheap, by the way!) You will find the process is much more fun when you are particular and write everything down than when you just have a vague notion in your head somewhere!
2. Once you are sure that you know what it is you that you want, whether it is a physical object or some other goal, it is time to make your vision plain.
Visualize it, touch it, hear it, go suck it even, if that helps!! Imagine moving into your new house, smelling the fresh Yorkshire air, the wind and the rain(!), and hear the sheep bleating in the dales and hills.
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Was the government successful in accomplishing the goals set during Reconstruction?
I don’t believe they were but i wanted a second opinion.
Nick,
Recconstruction was not successfull – more people were proud of “never being reconstructed” than vice versa. Regardless of what the text books teach the Reconstruction period wouldn’t end until 7 December, 1941. WW II was the one and only thing following the end of the Civil War that would draw the country together as never before seen in modern times (and arguably has not been drawn together since).
WW II drew us out of the depression to boot and not FDR’s socialist “New Deal” – but I sense you know this already as well.
All the best,
Gerry D.
What are some tips for setting up a successful photographic business?
My long term goal is to set up a photographic business (a studio for portraits, wedding photography etc.), what tips can you give me to make sure I make profit?
Well first you need a camera. Then if your taking pics then set up a room with a background people want to get their pictures taken in front of. Im not a expert but I am a photographer. Hey add my animal crossing code again!! Send me a message.
What does the youth want to hear about goal setting and God?
I am doing a research on what do the youth want to hear concerning their future and the utmost future like after death or God. How would they like to be help to set their goals and become successful? There is so Much talk going on about self improvement and God that people not really notice the important of this end results. I want to know how I can reach the mind of the youth from 13 to 28 years to awaken them to see the importance of goal setting, the importance to know where you want to go and to map out your route and finally to reach your destination. What and how want they to hear it?
tell them that they need goals, and that they need to achive those goals, and that those things are the only things that will keep them alive in the memories of the world after they are dead.
also, tell them not to think about god too much, its a wast of time and brain power.
What was Columbus’s goal in setting forth across the Atlantic in 1492? Was his voyage successful?
Spain had been trading and colonizing in Atlantic waters since the 1300s and had competed with Portugal for control over the Atlantic islands and the west coast of Africa.
Spain’s movement into the Atlantic largely followed a mercantile approach embodying commercial practices also employed by Portugal and Genoa in dealing with non-Western peoples. This was to be expected, as the ports of southern Spain had long been integrated into the Mediterranean mercantile world. But Spanish expansion also enacted a new approach – that of full settlement of Reconquest – which emerged during Christian Spain’s seven centuries of episodic warfare against Islamic Moorish kingdoms on the peninsula.
This struggle reached a successful conclusion just as the Spanish undertook systematic colonization across the Atlantic.