This is taken directly from my new client "intake session" where I am gathering information to help me most effectively help my new clients achieve their goals:
"For the purposes of our work together, I would like you to mentally divide your life up into these categories of focus and improvement:
Your Physical Body Goals: Health, Fitness, Exercise, Dentistry, whatever fits.
Personal Development Goals: New Skills, New Learnings, New Books, whatever fits.
Family Goals: Wife, children, siblings, relatives, relationships, visiting them, delighting them, nurturing them, whatever fits.
Relationship Goals: Friends, Acquaintances, Partners, deeper relationships, better connections, resolving old conflict...whatever fits.
Business Goals: New Office, New Equipment, New Job, How Much Profit, How Many Hours Worked Per Week, New Projects...whatever fits.
Spiritual Goals: Your Connection to the World, Your Connection to the Universe, Religion, Your Higher Power, Recycling...whatever fits.
Financial Goals: Money Earned, Money Saved, Debt Eliminated, Investments...whatever fits.
Fun /Having a Blast Goals: Vacations, Trips, Guilt Free Splurges, Concert Tickets to Delight Yourself or Someone Else...whatever fits.
Possessions: New Car, Used Car, New Outfit, New Golf Clubs, New Furniture, Used Bike...whatever fits.
Emotional Goals: Changes and Enhancements to Your Emotional Toolbox and Habitual Responses...Procrastination into Action, Confusion into Clarity, Fear into Empowerment, Scattered into Focus...whatever fits.
Look at these categories and write down whatever comes to mind, in each category that you would love to achieve...in the short term...this coming year and in the next 3 to 5 to 20 years. Put no limits of any kind on this initial list. Pretend that Santa Claus is going to get this list and you have been a very good boy or girl!
There are great reasons why this list should initially be done in a limitless frame of mind, and we will discuss those some time, but for now, just play and put down what comes to you."
So that is the first step...dreaming...letting your mind run free and download your most heartfelt desires to you. There is huge power in just this step alone.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Planning
I will be giving a seminar called "Excellence in Planning" in just under 2 weeks. I could give the seminar tomorrow and do a decent job, but I have really committed myself to moving my seminars up in value and "Fun Factor" each and every time I present them. With that as my goal, and with the number of people that have already told me they would love to be there and cannot, I thought I would write about the process of planning as I do it and as I highly encourage my clients to plan as well.
First step: Holding a significant planning session with yourself and for yourself where you look at all aspects of your life, business and personal, and you let yourself dream. There are no limits during this time, and no concern about how you will achieve a certain goal. ( How you will achieve something is considered later. You want to make sure that your inner skeptic or editor is quiet during this time!) You look at long term goals...out 20 years or more and you look at shorter term goals...some that might only take you a month to achieve.
I still do this complete process, and we will talk about the complete process, each and every year. It takes about 40 hours to do the process justice. So, each and every year, I take a week of my highly valued vacation and I devote it to the process of planning. It is the best week of vacation that I ever take and makes all of the other vacations possible.
More on planning next time...Jack
First step: Holding a significant planning session with yourself and for yourself where you look at all aspects of your life, business and personal, and you let yourself dream. There are no limits during this time, and no concern about how you will achieve a certain goal. ( How you will achieve something is considered later. You want to make sure that your inner skeptic or editor is quiet during this time!) You look at long term goals...out 20 years or more and you look at shorter term goals...some that might only take you a month to achieve.
I still do this complete process, and we will talk about the complete process, each and every year. It takes about 40 hours to do the process justice. So, each and every year, I take a week of my highly valued vacation and I devote it to the process of planning. It is the best week of vacation that I ever take and makes all of the other vacations possible.
More on planning next time...Jack
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Taxes
Aah, another year of taxes. How did it go? I used to really bellyache about the taxes in the United States until I had spent a fair amount of time traveling and living in other countries. Now, I will say this without reservation:
The United States is the safest and easiest place in the world to build a fortune. (There are easier places, but they aren't safe...your money or your life! There are also much safer places, Canada for example, but you will find it quite interesting to survive the taxes there! Wowsers!)
One of my Canadian friends sent me a video about taxes in Canada called "Knee in the Package". I wish I know how to load that here, but I think you can probably find it with an online search. Worth a quick glance!
Till next time...Jack
The United States is the safest and easiest place in the world to build a fortune. (There are easier places, but they aren't safe...your money or your life! There are also much safer places, Canada for example, but you will find it quite interesting to survive the taxes there! Wowsers!)
One of my Canadian friends sent me a video about taxes in Canada called "Knee in the Package". I wish I know how to load that here, but I think you can probably find it with an online search. Worth a quick glance!
Till next time...Jack
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