Step#16

Day #1: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Your sense of personal well-being and enrichment lays foundation for every other achievement in your life.

1) Take five minutes to brainstorm all the Possibilities: what would you like to learn? What skills do you want to master? What character traits would you like to develop? Who would your friends be? Who would you be?

2) Give each of your goals a timeline (6 month, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years) for completion.

3) Highlight your top one-year goal.

4) In two minutes, write a brief paragraph stating why you are absolutely committed to achieving this goal within the next year.

Step#15

Guidelines for goal setting (Programming Your RAS)

1) Commit now to spending ten minutes each day for the next four days setting goals. (NOTE: keep a permanent record of these goals in a hardbound journal.)

2) As you work on the goal-setting exercises, constantly ask yourself, "what would I want for my life if I knew I could have it any way I wanted it? What would I do if I knew I could not fail?"

3) Have fun! Imagine that you are a kid again. You're in a department store on Christmas Eve, about to sit on Santa's lap. (Remember what this was like?) In this state of excited anticipation, nothing is too big to ask for, nothing costs too much, everything is within reach…