There are three part structure you’ll need to succeed at anything you want in life:

1. What do you want?
The simpler and specific, the more you will increase the chances of success. Goals are helped by having a date you want, as it is something to work towards. Also, this question naturally supplies an answer stated in the positive, because if you focus on what you don’t want, you might get that instead of what you do want.

2. How will you know you’ve got it?
This question gives you the evidence to know when you’ve got your goal. If you’re not clear about what’s going to happen once you’ve got it you may either get it without realizing, or you will unconsciously keep re-evaluating the end-point. This will either cheat you of enjoying the fruits of your labor, or even worse, mean you’ll never achieve an ever-shifting end-point.

It helps to use sensory based language as we understand our entire world through our senses. We move towards things we like, and away from things we don’t. So to help move towards your goal feed your imagination to increase its attraction. Include what you will see, hear and feel once you’ve got it. Step out into your imagined future and noticing what is around and inside you at the time.

Once you know you’re end goal, you’ll be able to more easily notice if what you’re doing is working.

3. Flexibility – This is essential even before you get to work on your goal.
It is worth pre-empting any problems and the deeper reasons behind them before you start. By addressing them before starting, figuring out what needs / wants they are fulfilling, you’ll be able to more easily move past them when they come up. You will also save yourself a lot of grief and heartache working towards a goal that will leave you worse off when it’s completed than if you hadn’t even bothered.

By doing this, you’ll probably come up with a few benefits to not working on the goal as well as not achieving it. There are nearly always benefits to not achieving a goal and whatever these are it’s important to be aware of them.

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