Posts Tagged ‘Desire’
Do big goals lead to big success?
"No Hands" by Adam Hawkins http://anodizeproductions.com
Should you set big fat hairy audacious goals or stick to the reasonable, more easily achieved variety?
Many interviews with highly successful people reveal that they set themselves huge goals, fired by a burning desire to achieve something specific and that these goals determine their direction and purpose in life and colour all their decisions and actions.
They also freely admit that when they set these goals it’s usually without any clear idea of how to achieve them.
What they do have however, is an unwavering belief that they CAN.
What happens is that when a goal excites you enough, you start to live every day in a way that makes it possible to achieve it and obstacles don’t seem so daunting. Setting reasonable goals rarely leads to that sense of excitement so there isn’t the same incentive to overcome obstacles and the goals just becomes another “so what?”
All great achievements begin with an idea, a want, a longing, a desire.
While she was still Posh Spice, Victoria Adams said she wanted to be “more famous than Persil”. As Mrs Victoria Beckham she got her desire but many of our wants and longings never get past the wishing and dreaming stage.
If you’ve ever had your dream laughed at, if you’ve been told to ‘get real’, keep your feet on the floor, your shoulder to the wheel and your nose to the grindstone (ouch!) you’ve probably let go of that dream and it may now be just a vague longing.
How would you feel if you re-ignited that flame? What’s stopping you from blowing on the coals of your burning desire and setting off on an adventure of achievement?
My guess is, that interfering with your thinking, your determination and your belief is a very small word called FEAR. It may be fear of failure, fear of success or simply a series of “what if’s?”
Fear is a tricky emotion. Most of the people who have achieved big fat hairy audacious goals say that the magnitude of what they were trying to achieve scared them – but they did it anyway.
If you knew that you could not possibly fail, what would you attempt?
On June 16th in Cambridge, Andy Gibney will be leading an interactive session on “How to set and achieve audacious goals and create a sense of purpose. Details here >>
If you can’t be there, join in the debate by telling us your views here – it would be great to know what you think – especially if you have a big fat hairy audacious goal!
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Putting Desire into Action
Here are the pictures from the event
According to Napoleon Hill ‘Desire is the starting point of all achievement’. Bob Garbett takes it one step further and says ‘Desire is nothing without passion’.
Passion was in evidence in every word of Bob’s presentation as he explained how his military training is easily translated into taking action to get a business idea working.
His main points are:
*If you aren’t passionate about what you’re doing – do something else. He describes passion as a crazy mad emotion that you absolutely have to satisfy, not a rational reasoned argument for doing something.
*Aim for complete success – why would you settle for anything less?
*Don’t do it for the money.
*Don’t listen to reason, just the facts. There will always be people who tell you it can’t be done and why – you may even tell yourself this but if the facts add up and you’re passionate enough you’ll make it happen.
*Make decisions not deliberations. Don’t spend so much time weighing up the pros and cons that you drive yourself mad. Just get on with it.
*Never give up. You may need to find a way around obstacles or take a different route but keep going until you get there.
*Think fast and move fast. Don’t look back in ten years time and wonder why you didn’t get anywhere.
*Manage the risk. What will you need or risk in terms of money/ getting the right team/ the right environment?
*Just do it. We regret the things we didn’t do more than the things we do.
*Follow through. It will get rough, you will get criticism, you will fail occasionally, but if you follow through you cannot FAIL.
Inspired events are very different and very special – join us at the next one on November 18th when Andy Gibney will be talking about“How to Master Procrastination and Overcome Obstacles”
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Putting Desire into Action
Some people make things happen, some people watch what happens and others sit and wonder what the hell happened
Having good ideas and a strong vision is not enough. Organised planning is the key to taking the right action that will bring the right results. Many people have a desire to achieve great things but the key steps to this achievement involve putting into practice true leadership skills so that other people buy into your vision and help you to achieve it.
This is just one of the steps to success – the others are outlined below. You can read more in other posts here and join a dynamic group of business owners as they put them into action.
http://theinspiredgroup.com/inspired-events/
Steps to Success
(Inspired by Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”)
1. Decide what you want. Desire is the starting point of all achievement.
2. Believe that you can get what you want. Self doubt will prevent you from taking action.
3. You don’t have to do it all yourself. Surround yourself with people who know what you don’t know and who can do what you can’t do.
4. Make practical use your imagination. Work out how to turn your dreams into reality.
5. Create a plan, organise your ideas and take continuous action.
6. Avoid procrastination and make decisions. Use information and knowledge from others but let the decisions be your own.
7. Persist. Things will go wrong, people will let you down. If your desire is strong enough you will find a way through all difficulties to achieve your desire.
8. Aquire power and learn how to use it. The ability to lead others in a spirit of harmony to achieve a definite objective is a major source of success.
9. Understand that sex is the most powerful of human desires. When this desire is harnessed into a creative process it can be the source of genius.
10. Learn to use the power of the subconscious mind which can work for or against you but which can be controlled.
11. Develop and learn to trust the ‘sixth sense’. Intuition can help us to avoid dangers and grasp opportunities.
12. Deal with fear, the major obstacle to achievement.
Join us at our next event on October 14th when keynote speaker
Bob Garbett, military veteran, MD of RMIS Ltd and Founder of O4RB brings his own brand of leadership skills, military and business experience together in a riveting talk that explains why some people make things happen while others are still wondering what to do.
http://theinspiredgroup.com/inspired-events/
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Belief in yourself
I’ve been verbed! At a recent meeting, Nigel Wathen of
www.sjpp.co.uk told the assembled gathering that he’d been
“Anned” (thank goodnes my name isn’t Roger 
). Becoming
a verb isn’t something I set out to do but I’m not
complaining!
If the first action in achieving success is deciding what you want (your major definite purpose and all consuming goal) and creating a plan to get it, this also involves ‘starting with the end in mind’.
Victoria Beckham famously said that she wanted to be “more famous than Persil” and she got her desire. Lots of people have become more famous than Persil but that was a side product of what they really wanted.
If you can’t decide on your major definite purpose or all consuming goal then starting with the end in mind may help.
I recently spoke to Richard McCormack of www.rjmltd.com who told me that when he started his business it was with the idea of selling it. He has a definite end in mind and is working towards it. Do you?
What comes after that is your belief that you can get it. The old saying “whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’ll prove yourself right” is absolutely true. Our thoughts are so powerful that they influence everything we do.
You can read below (March 17th) about the number of people who achieved success against all the odds, just because they believed they could do it.
Do you believe you can get what you want? If not, what are the thoughts that are holding you back? The first step to working on a lack of self belief or self confidence is to acknowledge that you have them. The good news is that self-confidence really can be learned and built on. All other things being equal, self-confidence is often the single ingredient that distinguishes a successful person from someone less successful.
Action Plans:
1. Decide on your definite major purpose or all consuming goal. What is the end result going to be?
2. Write down your goal and read it aloud twice a day. Imagine that you have already achieved it. (See post below from March 16th)
3. Do you believe you can get what you want? If not, find out what is stopping you and work on it.
Come to our event on 22nd April to do some practical work towards achieving success.
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Missed opportunities
Edwin C Barnes was a penniless salesman who had a
DESIRE to go into partnership with the inventor
Thomas Edison.
More than that – his DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE was
to be Edison’s associate.
He had the chance to be one of Edison’s salesmen but that wasn’t what he wanted. He waited until the opportunity came and Edison’s other salesmen decided that they couldn’t sell the latest invention – a dictating machine.
When his opportunity came, it was in a different form and in a different way to what Barnes was expecting.
Barnes showed Edison that he could market and distribute the machine in partnership with Edison and made a fortune.
Barnes knew what he wanted and had the determination to stand by his desire. Opportunity has a habit of slipping in the back door and can sometimes come disguised as misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps that is why opportunities are sometimes not recognised and missed.
(My version of a story from Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich)
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