Welcome to Your Achievement Ezine
Issue 292 - January 3, 2007

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Special Note: Happy New Year! This is an exciting time as we close out 2006 and jump into 2007 with renewed excitement, vigor and anticipation! May 2007 be the year you accomplish more, reach higher levels of success and a year that you stretch and grow more and new skills!

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These ten steps will help you achieve your goals in 2007.

1. Make the commitment to reach your goal. "One person with a commitment is worth a hundred who only have an interest." Mary Crowley.

2. Commit yourself to detailed accountability. Record your progress toward your goals every night, and list the six most important things you need to do the next day. Daily discipline is the key to reaching your goals.

3. Build your life on a sold foundation of honesty, character, integrity, trust, love, and loyalty. This foundation will give you an honest shot at reaching any goal you have set properly.

4. Break your intermediate and long-range goals into increments.

5. Be prepared to change. You can't control the weather, inflation, interest rates, Wall Street, etc. Change your decision to move toward a goal carefully--but be willing to change your direction to get there as conditions and circumstances demand.

6. Share your "give-up" goals (i.e., give up smoking, being rude, procrastinating, being late, eating too much, etc.) with many people. Chances are excellent they're going to encourage you.

7. Become a team player. Remember: You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

8. See the reaching. In your imagination see yourself receiving that diploma, getting that job or promotion, making that speech, moving into the home of your dreams, achieving that weight-loss goal, etc.

9. Each time you reach a goal your confidence will grow so that you can do bigger and better things. After accomplishing any goal, record it in your journal, Weekly Planner or Palm Pilot.

10. Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals--what you will become is the winner you were born to be!



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3. Your Achievement Tips -

Forget New Year's Resolutions - They Don't Work by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)

You can forget about making New Year's Resolutions if you're hoping for a successful outcome. Most aren't worth the paper they're written on.

No less than Mark Twain has written of New Year's Resolutions, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."

The biggest majority of New Year's Resolutions have gone by the wayside before January is over and most won't even be remembered six months later. And the reason is pretty simple: Most are made in response to something negative -- a habit or situation that the person wants to change or end. And therein lies the problem - it's hard to develop momentum from a negative response. It is always easier to move toward something rather than away from something.

Consider one of the most adopted resolutions --- weight loss. No one can get excited about losing weight because it requires deprivation. It's a negative response to concerns about appearance, health, etc. The results of weight loss Resolutions demonstrate their weakness. A 1998 survey sponsored by Garden burger found that more than three-fourths of all women between the ages of 25 and 54 make diet and weight-loss plans each year. Nearly nine of 10 respondents reported only occasional or no success, while almost half lost little or actually gained weight instead.

The people who succeed at losing weight and maintaining the loss have usually been motivated by a dream much bigger and more positive than just losing weight. They see themselves living a healthy lifestyle. They begin to act and think like people who are in good physical shape. There's more of a radical change in a person's thinking and actions than you see with most resolutions. It wouldn't be possible to effect and sustain such a radical change unless the person is motivated by a big dream that is positive in nature.

Another popular aim is to quit smoking. And I can certainly relate to that -- I was a three-pack-a-day smoker until I celebrated a smoke-free New Year's twelve years ago. For over twenty years I had tried to quit many times using every tool and technique I heard about. But as long as I was trying to quit, I couldn't break the grip.

Instead, I developed a dream to become a non-smoker. I fell in love with the idea of breathing clean air instead of smoky air, of my body and clothes smelling nice instead of smoky. I thought about how wonderful it would be to taste food again. I decided to start acting and thinking like a non-smoker, and when the thinking took hold I simply quit smoking. In all the years since, I've never wanted another cigarette, never even thought about wanting one.

If you're going to make a New Year's Resolution this year, make one with a high probability for success. Make a Resolution to develop a life plan. Most people are in a free-fall through life, careening from one crisis to the next. They wake up one day and 10, 20, 30 or more years have passed and they're nowhere near where they thought or hoped they'd be. Working with a life plan you're much more apt to be excited by what the future brings even if you succeed at attaining only a small part of your plan.

A life plan should address all areas of your life including finances, health, relationships, career, spiritual and even recreational. While a lot of our focus tends to be on financial issues like increasing income or decreasing debt, or health issues like losing weight or quitting smoking, the undeniable truth is that a life lived out of balance isn't a life of quality at all.

If you were going to build a new house and you had this idea for a fabulous master bedroom suite, you wouldn't rush out and start building the master bedroom. You'd have a complete plan before you started. When you approach resolutions and goals in the same manner, you end up with a much better chance of achieving success.

Vic Johnson


This article is excerpted from Vic Johnson's book, Day by Day with James Allen. "Day by Day with James Allen" gives you a bite-sized, daily helping of James Allen's self-help classic, As A Man Thinketh, along with the insights and experiences of himself and others. Some days bring comfort, some bring hope and inspiration, and still others bring a call to action. But every day brings the ageless wisdom that has helped so many understand that as we think in our hearts, so we become. Book includes complete text of As A Man Thinketh. To order go to Vic Johnson or call 877-929-0439.



 

"Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life."  Zig Ziglar

4. Zig's Strategies for Success

Zig's Strategies for Success   "You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar    What if you could be in a room with the great Zig Ziglar as he shares on 5 key components to success in life and business (including building a healthy self-esteem, developing & maintaining the right attitude, building winning relationships and how to set and achieve goals)?   And not only would you get to review the ideas and strategies Zig shares, on 6 full DVDs over the future weeks, months and years with your family and staff (and for yourself), but you also could listen to the CD version in your car and when you go for a walk or jog.   And lastly you would be able to translate all this into a strategic working personal and professional life plan using Zig's Performance Planner.   ------If you watch these 6 DVDs, I can assure you that you will soon after make an appointment with your family to go through this entire program together! Just think -- what if (for so many of us) our parents had made sure that we had an opportunity to hear a Zig Ziglar or Jim Rohn while we were growing up and we had set our goals, life goals, financial goals, career goals.. while we were still in school - wow!--------     Zig's Strategies for Success is comprised of 6 powerful DVDs, 6 CDs and as a bonus for the first 100 to order, a Zig Ziglar Performance Planner.   On DVD 1 (view a clip online) Zig teaches on Building a Healthy Self-Image     •    Why self-image and success are interwoven     •    Self-Image – its relationship to happiness and accomplishments     •    The steps to a healthy self-image     •    How you can – and why you should – feel good about yourself     •    Healthy self-image – consistent performance   On DVD 2 Zig teaches on Developing & Maintaining the Right Attitude     •    Why your attitude makes the difference     •    What the right attitude enables you to do     •    The formula for keeping the right attitude     •    What the right attitude will and won’t let you do     •    Why attitude counts in every area of life   On DVD 3 Zig teaches on Building Winning Relationships     •    Relationships – the key to health and happiness     •    A relationship philosophy     •    Family relationships     •    Career relationships     •    Steps to successful relationships On DVD 4 Zig teaches on Hope: The Foundation For Successful Change     •    Why hope is the activator     •    Making radical changes in minute steps     •    Why and how you can do something now     •    Why failure is an event and success is a process     •    Keep on pumping   And on DVD 5 & 6 (view a clip online) Zig teaches on The Goals Program     •    Why a goals program is a MUST     •    Four reasons most people don’t have a goals program     •    Why a goals program will make you happier and healthier     •    Exactly how you set all your goals     •    Exactly how you reach all your goals     This program is so very powerful! It is a must for anyone who wants to improve in any area of their life.   We do have a limited supply of this amazing package at this very special offer (lowest price anywhere, plus an incredible bonus).   Strategies for Success 6 DVDs, 6 CDS Retail $249 Special $149 $129*   Plus the first 100 to order receive free the Zig Ziglar Performance Planner ($39 value) - details below.   To order and/or to view video clips, go to http://ziglar.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.   The Performance Planner Features:  - Goal Achievement Formula Charts - Seven Steps to Success - Weekly Activity Record - Personal Performance Record - Your Daily Objectives and Activities Diary - Important Meetings and Projects Journal - A Permanent Record of Notes, Thoughts and Action Ideas - Monthly Activity Record - Appointments and Priority Activities - Calendars and Holidays - Birthdays and Special Events - Address & Telephone Directory - With the Performance Planner and our exclusive goals-setting and tracking system, you can focus your time and energy on top priorities, which lead to the realization of your business and personal goals. Become a winner. Set and record your goals today.   Also add How To Stay Motivated 3 Vol. Program by Zig Ziglar - 18 CDs and Planner   To order and/or to view video clips, go to http://ziglar.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.

 

"Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination."  Sir Frederick Treves

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