Goal Setting Workout Dear Reader, Brian Tracy said, Success is goals, and all else is commentary.

Thats why I wanted to give you this first chapter for free. Even if you never purchase my 50 Personal Development Exercises for Entrepreneurs, youll at least benefit greatly by learning how to set and achieve goals. All successful people do so. Youre in for a treat. In this e-book I have written all the exercises for the home based business entrepreneur, so it will all be relevant. And in many cases, added multimedia components (audios and videos) at my website. Enjoy, Mike

Watching the videos and listening to the audios Many of the exercises in this book have a multi-media (audio or video) component. When you see these symbols, you know that there is more content online:

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Goal Setting Workout The Goal Setting Workout for Entrepreneurs was written and compiled by Michael Griesmer and is available absolutely free at http://michaelgriesmer.com. Just give me your name and e-mail address so I can keep in touch with you. Ill send you blog updates, educational pieces, recommendations, etc. The Goals Workout is Chapter 1 from 50 Personal Development Exercises for Entrepreneurs. (Coming out in 2011.) If you like this free material, consider purchasing the whole thing at michaelgriesmer.com. Also, tell your friends!

About the picture on the cover. I did not ask permission to use that WONDERFUL picture, so I hope Sensei Perry will forgive me, if he every finds out. To give credit where credit is due, here is his website: http://yawara.seikijukukarate.com/kHistory/SenseiFrankPerry.html

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Table of Contents

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Five-year fantasy Brainstorm your dreams Add time frames and prioritize Define the reasons why, check congruency Purpose, passion, mission Convert dreams in to goals Fine tune your daily tasks List resources you have or will need to acquire Make a visual representation of your major definite purpose

(See page 2 for how to access the online, multi-media content of this eBook)

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Exercise 1: Five-Year Fantasy

What would your life look like in 5 years if it was perfect in every respect? Imagine for a moment that you have no limitations at all. You imagine that all things are possible for you. Listen to the audios on the website and answer the various sets of questions. Before you write down your answers, day dream about your ideal future first. Making mental movies will involve their right brain, so your subconscious mind can contribute ideas (and details) that you would not otherwise get. Then write your answers below. (See page 2 for how to access the online, multi-media content of this eBook) Business and Financial:

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Goal Setting Workout Health and Fitness:

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Goal Setting Workout Personal Development and Contribution:

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Exercise 2: Brainstorm your dreams

This second exercise may seem really similar to the first one. It is. But since Ill be asking the questions in a different way, youll find yourself coming up with different answers. You wont write exactly the same thing for both exercises. And this will serve you. What do I want to do?

What do I want to be?

What do I want to see?

What do I want to have?

Where do I want to go?

Goal Setting Workout Inventory of your dreams. Keep your pen moving for 10-15 minutes.

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Exercise 3: Add timeframes & Prioritize

Listen to the first audio, Anthony Robbins Assign Timelines and then go back to your answers in the previous two exercises and write when you would expect to achieve them. Are most of your goals: Short term Long term Or is there a balance?

Listen to the second audio, Jim Rohn Add Timeframes and Prioritize. (The beginning of this one overlaps with the Anthony Robbins audio.) Jim Rohn and Tony suggest different timeframes (6 months to 20 years vs. 1 year to 10 years) but you are free to assign whatever timeframes you want. These are your goals. Jim Rohn suggests picking 16 goals (4 goals in each of 4 timeframes). I think thats a bit excessive. If you only spent 5 minutes on each one, this exercise alone would take over an hour. So I give you permission to pick only 5 goals for this exercise. I want you to be able to devote more than 5 minutes to each one. Print out a copy of the next page for each goal and write your detailed descriptions. These written descriptions will become one of your most important personal possessions. Jim Rohn

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Goal Description
Goal: First vividly imagine it, then write down what you saw:

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Exercise 4: Define the reasons why, check congruency

Listen to both audios on the website and watch my video. Then, print out as many copies of the next page as you need and figure out the reasons why you will be motivated to work on your goals for as long as it takes and the reasons why your life goals are an expression of what you really want. Authenticity to your true values requires deep self knowledge. You may not be able to write definitive answers for this exercise today. You may need to come back to it from time to time. For now, write something to stimulate your thinking. The next exercise will help you gain clarity by viewing this from a different perspective.

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Reasons
Goal: Define in writing why achieving this goal is important to you:

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Exercise 5: Purpose, Passion, Mission

Listen to the three audios on the website, then answer the following questions (and the ones on the website). What do you love to do? What are your particular gifts and talents? What really touches you deeply (i.e. an injustice)? What do you think needs to be changed about the world, that you feel called to tackle (or contribute to)? What do you want to create and share with the world? Picture yourself on your death bed. What meaningful accomplishments would make you feel fulfilled and smile with peace of mind? (Now this is not a ten minute exercise for most people. I went through a period of questioning that took me 2.5 years before my purpose became clear to me. These questions will get you started thinking about it. Write down your provisional answers now.)

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Exercise 6: Convert dreams into goals

What Jim Rohn called Long term goals in Exercise 2 above, Steven Scott calls Dreams. In exercises 6 and 7 we are going to break those dreams down in to goals, steps, and tasks, so that you end up with a detailed written plan for your goals. Then all you have to do is carry out your plans! Again, to avoid confusion, in exercises 6 and 7: Dreams means your big life goals, the targets that youve decided to pursue Goals means the sub-goals or major milestones youll reach on your way to your big goals (your Dreams) Steps and Tasks make up the detailed plan to achieve your goals and dreams. Listen to both audios on the website, then Create a Goals Page for each of your Dreams. Map out the milestones that will have to happen for you to get to that dream. Print multiple copies of the next page, and do this in writing. Or you can download the Dream Conversion Journal from the website and do the same thing in Excel.

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Goals Page
Dream: Ill have to accomplish the following Goals to get to my Dream:

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Exercise 7: Fine tune your daily tasks

You convert your Dreams into Goals. You convert your Goals into Steps. You convert your Steps into Tasks. The Steps can be thought of as parts or phases of each Goal. The Tasks are the specific things youll have to do to complete each Step. The Tasks are small enough to actually work on. Review your list of tasks when you do your week planning (and/or day planning) and schedule them on your calendar. Listen to further instructions at Exercise 7 on the website. You can also download an Excel version of the Goals Sheet and the Steps and Tasks sheet. If your comfortable using Excel it might work better for you than the paper version because you can add as many rows as you like under each Step to lay out as many tasks as you think necessary to accomplish each step. Break down each of your Goals into the Steps and Tasks youll have to take to bring them about. Print multiple copies of the next page, and do this in writing.

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Goal: Write down the Steps and Tasks youll have to take to accomplish your goal:

Steps

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Exercise 8: List resources you have or will need to acquire

Make an inventory of your strengths and abilities and resources you can draw on to achieve your goals.

Now list the information youll need to seek out and the resources that you will need to acquire by partnering with other people.

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Exercise 9: Make a visual representation of your major definite purpose

Watch the video on the website then sketch out your initial answers below. Then get creative with some kind of visualization (PowerPoint slide, poster/collage, photos, drawing or audio recording) that you can review every day. The purpose of reviewing your goals daily is to inspire yourself, so get excited. If your goals are not that exciting, revise them upward! Goal/Amount:

Give:

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Plan:

Future benefits:

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Goal Setting Workout Since reviewing your goals every day is a new habit, you should be diligent at really doing it for the first several weeks. Check off all these boxes over the next three weeks, and you will have trained yourself to think about your goals consistently! Print out this page and tape it to a wall somewhere where you will see it every day. Then check of a box each time you review your goals.

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Goal Setting Workout The Goals Workout is Chapter 1 from 50 Personal Development Exercises for Entrepreneurs. (Coming out in 2011) If you like this free material, consider purchasing the whole thing at http://michaelgriesmer.com. Also, tell your friends!

50 Personal Development Exercises for Entrepreneurs

Table of Contents GOAL SETTING 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Five-year fantasy Brainstorm your dreams Add time frames and prioritize Define the reasons why, check congruency Purpose, passion, mission Convert dreams in to goals Fine tune your daily tasks List resources you have or will need to acquire Make a visual representation of your major definite purpose

PERSONAL POWER 10. Identify your procrastination patterns 11. Put in place a remedy, check for values conflicts vs. congruency 12. Preframe activities you might avoid: make them appealing 13. Do something small and obvious in each room. Start for 15 min & you'll probably do more 14. You are responsible 15. Developing habits TIME MANAGEMENT 16. List the 6 most important things you have to do tomorrow, and put them in order of importance 17. Important roles 18. Activity log 19. Daily Successes ENTREPRENEURSHIP 20. Financial Independence, escaping the rat race. 21. Making lots of money means youve given lots of value. Be fruitful / Get Rich 23

Goal Setting Workout 22. Entrepreneurs look for a need and fill it. Your identity as "problem solver" 23. Philanthropy (something bigger than yourself) 24. What patterns of success and achievement did you learn from each of your parents (or whoever raised you)? What patterns of laziness? What attitudes about money? TEAM/LEVERAGE 25. List the most negative and most positive people in your life 26. List people who you would like to approach about forming a mastermind 27. Do something effective and leveraged (start a business) 28. Leveraging people (network marketing, employees, delegating and outsourcing) 29. Leveraging technology (Internet Marketing) 30. Revise your goals: shooting for the moon MENTAL SOFTWARE 31. Meditation for stress reduction 32. Meditation for visualization 33. Mental Software repeated listening to inspiring audios 34. Weaken disempowering beliefs by doubting them with questions 35. Install empowering beliefs 36. How to stop worrying. Positive expectation. 37. Catch yourself ruminating and transformational vocabulary. 38. Changing submodalities (Neuro Linguistic Programming) 39. Pattern Interrupt. Scramble bad memories PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 40. Make a list of books to read. Some recommendations 41. Make a list of the seminars and advanced training you want to attend when you can afford it 42. List aspects of your personality to improve 43. Sitting for ideas 44. Journaling: good thoughts are fleeting SALES AND MARKETING SKILLS 45. Identify your beliefs about selling 46. Reframe your self-image, The Go Giver 47. Buying facilitation 48. Conceptual selling 49. Internet marketing 50. Solutions provider mindset

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