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  • Use All Your Senses To Optimize Goal Setting

    Just as the first most important thing about goal setting is to write down your goals, the second-most important is to review them frequently. Weekly review is optimal; and some people even review them daily.

    Reading goals aloud is consistent with best practices. Why? Because the integration of goals into ALL of our senses dramatically increases the odds of the goals actually happening.

    Next, review your written goals aloud – this time with visual reminders like photographs or advertising that animate your goals.

    The more of the senses you engage, the better. Try to feel the feeling you anticipate will be there when your goals are realized. You can even ask yourself how your goals “taste” and “smell” – for example, “sweet” and “delicious.”

    Are you willing to engage all of your senses in service of your goals and experiment with how effective the approach of all-senses integration is for you? You’ll find that it works!

  • Self-Talk Is A Reflection Of Our Perceptions

    How much do you think your inner dialogue has with the results that you produce in life? Have you ever been one of those people who has allowed negative self-talk to run roughshod over your consciousness and become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Or are you a master at only uplifting self-talk as a means of inspiring you to move forward?

    Self-talk matters because it reflects our perceptions. If “perception is reality,” then any perception that you’re a winner or a loser – or anything in between – that somehow gets translated to self-chatter has a tremendous amount of influence over your ultimate experience.

    Among the most powerful things we can do to manage self-talk is to write it down. Take three minutes as an experiment and write down all the positive self-talk and three minutes for all of the negative. This exercise makes your choice making very clear by contrasting what will aid you against what will diminish you. What other ways do you use self-talk?