Saturday, May 29, 2010

What you need to reach goals?



Set goals – A long term goals and a short term goal. The reasons to set a long term as well as short term goals are because you will have a better and clear daily schedule, more focus on what you doing each day, and let's say you fail your short term goals you still have a long term goals to focus.

How to schedule your time to achieve your goals?


Example scenario a self-employed selling toilet bowl:


2010 goals: 100k (Long term goal)

Self-employed based on commission as income: Rm2000 per deal


100k yearly / Rm2000 per deal = 50 deals

50 deals / 7 month (June-Dec) = 7-8 deals per month (Short term goal)

7-8 deals / 4 weeks (1 Month) = 1-2 deals per week


1-2 deals per week. How many customer you need to meet? Let’s say 10 Appointment you able to close a deal.

So per week = 20 appointment.


20 appt per week = 2-3 appt per day

Daily time table (24 Hours) to achieve 2-3 appt per day –





and as well Tuesday , Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedule...


P/S: The time table might not be that accurate and is just for an example.



Questions to be answer:
1) Who can assist you to achieve your goal?

2) Note down what is the obstacle you going to faces?

3) Who going to assist you to solve the problem?

4) What skill do you have in order to achieve your goals?

5) Which skill that you don’t have and you need it?

6) Who can assits you to have the skill?

After setting goals,


Motivation – You have to identify what is a thing that can motivate you. It could be family, friends, loves ones, money, luxury product and etc. As for my experience, I never stop motivate myself every time. When I tend to relax and stop motivating myself to achieve my goals, I find it difficult to get back on track. It just like replacing the period of time you have miss.

Motivation plays a part of your daily life too. Example, what motivate you to get up from bed early in the morning 7.00am when you don’t have to work? What motivate you to stop smoking and drinking every night? Each of this does need motivation. Keep motivating yourself and lead you to achieve your goal!
Ways of motivating yourself – Seminar , Books, Communicating, and etc..



Positive – Keep in mind!! Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything! When you have a positive thinking, each day you tend to have a better day. Why I say so?

Research published in Psychology and Aging, a journal from the American Psychological Association (APA), shows that while genetics and overall physical health play a part in how people age, positive thinking can also play an important role.


While researchers in the study couldn't explain why positive thinking or positive emotions reduced the incidence of frailty, they speculated that positive thinking may directly affect health via chemical and neural responses that help maintain an overall health balance.


Another possibility, according to the researchers, is that positive thinking can have a beneficial effect on people’s health by increasing a person’s intellectual, physical, psychological and social resources.


Try to focus your energy on positive thinking rather than negative thinking, and look for reasons to feel happy and hopeful every day. If you put your energy toward positive thinking and ways to make your life more enjoyable, you may discover that positive thinking really does help you feel better.


Example of a positive thinker: When you faces some unlucky situation 1 day, you tend to say to yourself “Damn, WHAT A BAD DAY!”. Why not we smile and say to ourselves as what Chinese always use to say “坏的不去,好得不来” (Bad luck don’t leave you, The Good luck will never approach you) No doubt some of us tend to believe that positive thinking won’t help in term of reaching the goal BUT neither do negative thinking will help.



Determination attitude - we need to determine our attitude in order to achieve goals. Why I say so, human being tends to give up when they meet failure. I would say this is normal for a human being! In order to achieve our goals we need determination.

How to build the determination attitude is the question that only can be answer by yourself. In this world, I bet no one can remind you each day of your life to have determination attitude of your goals UNLESS you hired that person. That is what everybody use to say, mind your own business!



Action – My favourite quote ‘ NATO’ (No Action, Talk Only). This problem is the major problem among us. Do you agree with me? For example: ‘I want to be rich’. But do you react toward it? To me, Action is more important than talk only. In every things I have say for my prospect of work life, I will tend to ask myself 2 simple question “When I will do it and how to do it?” . This will affect me to react on the time I have set and look for ideas.
In order to reach your goals, you need motivation to make a decision, positive thinking of what your life will be, determine attitude towards reaching your goals and ACTION towards it!
This are some of my way to achieve goals

1) Set goals

2)Motivation

3)Positive thinking

4)Determination attitude

5) Action



Let's strive together to reach our goals!!




Source: “Onset of Frailty in Older Adults and the Protective Role of Positive Affect," Glenn V. Ostir, Kenneth J. Ottenbacher and Kyriakos S. Markides, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Psychology and Aging], Vol. 19, No. 3. (PDF format)

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