Olympian’s, Goal Setting and You

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Jan 082010

I love sports…specially the Olympics! I’m in awe of top performing athletes, no matter what the sport.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics almost here and a New Year still fresh with us; I thought we could take a look to these top performing athletes and see what we can learn…specially with goal setting.

Virtually every Olympic athlete shares the same goal: winning the gold medal. (Although a few seem to be there just for the parties – we’re talkin’ about you, Bode).

Seriously, though, the interesting finding from research by sports psychologists is that successful athletes set goals in a very specific way that is far more precise and detailed than just setting one big goal.

The best news: we can all use the goal-setting strategies of elite athletes to achieve more in our everyday lives.

Here’s the most crucial principle: supplement the big, long-term goal with specific, challenging, near-term goals. Then focus more of your effort and attention on those near-term goals.

An athlete who wakes up each day to focus only the gold medal (or the Super Bowl, or the World Series, etc.) will quickly become overwhelmed. He or she will start to wonder:

How can I get from here to there?

As two experts on sports psychology, May and Veach, put it: “Repeated daily focusing on long-term goals is often counter-productive. The focus is too far into the future and prevents the athlete from completing the intermediate steps essential to ultimate success.”

What happens when you focus on near-term goals?

According to the scientific research, lots of good stuff, including…

Heightened performance and success
Greater likelihood of accomplishing goals and making life changes
A stronger sense of confidence and self-efficacy
More determination and persistence, particularly after setbacks
More enjoyment and intrinsic interest in the topic

What happens when you don’t set near-term goals, or focus too heavily on long-term goals? I call it “the goal gap,” and it’s a perfect recipe for procrastination and rumination – thinking about goals, but not taking action toward goals. It’s also a recipe for general unhappiness.

People who focus too much on their long-term goals view those goals as more difficult, more pressure-filled, and less enjoyable. And at the same time their near-term goals seem less relevant and satisfying.

Who avoids the goal gap, and successfully leverages the power of near-term goals? The scientific research points to many examples, including…

Successful athletes, as we described above
Successful students. Research conducted at Stanford University found that students struggling in math significantly improved their grades, and their psychological well-being, by focusing on near-term goals
Successful business and military leaders. Effective leaders often “segment” or “compartmentalize” complex tasks or missions into smaller, “bite-sized” sub-missions.
Resolution-keepers. Less than 20% of New Year’s resolution-makers become resolution-keepers. One of their key success strategies: focusing on near-term goals.
Happy people. Those who are most satisfied with life are those working toward enjoyable, moderately challenging goals of high short-term importance.

It’s easy to use the power of near-term goals to achieve more success in your everyday life. Just don’t go overboard by making goals “too near-term.” For example, students asked to make general monthly plans and goals perform better than those asked to make highly specific daily plans.

They spend more time studying, study more effectively, procrastinate less, and get better grades. Monthly planners experience more flexibility in crafting strategies for accomplishing their goals. They more easily adjust “on the fly” and are less easily “derailed” by changes in circumstance.

A daily planner who gets a mild case of the flu quickly finds his daily goals unattainable, resulting in disappointment and a loss of momentum. General planners enjoy the process of planning more, gaining a sense of designing their lives, while highly specific planners get the sense of their lives being controlled by their appointment books and PDAs.

The bottom line: Set weekly or monthly goals, and work aggressively toward them while giving yourself some flexibility about how to achieve them. Do this, and you’ll not only get the maximum performance boost, but you’ll also be setting goals like an Olympic champion.

Mental strength coaching and training will help you develop the strong mind-set need to set and stick with your goals. And presuming you have your strategy and tactics in place, with the development of the mind-set you WILL be able to accomplish your desired goals.

If you need assistance in determining your top 5 goals, developing a plan to achieve your goals, or sticking with plan…I’m here to help you.

Let me know how I can assist you OK?

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It's Time To Think Big!

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Dec 302009

I just read some interesting and disturbing data.

Only 9% of people keep their New Years resolutions for the entire year. While almost 65% don’t even make resolutions!

No wonder we’re in the shape we are.

Incase you have forgotten, here’s some compelling info in support of setting goals:

“Mark McCormick in his book What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989.

In 1979, graduates of the MBA program were asked to set clear written goals for their future and their plans to accomplish them. It turned out only 3 percent of the graduates had written goals, 13 percent had goals but they were not in writing and 84 percent had no specific goals at all–aside from getting out of school and enjoying the summer.

Ten years later, in 1989, the researchers again interviewed the members of that same graduating class. They found that the 13 percent who had goals that were not in writing were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent of students who had no goals at all. Most surprisingly, they found that the 3 percent of graduates who had clear, written goals were earning, on average, 10 times more than 97 percent of their graduating class. The only difference between the groups was the clarity of goals they had set (and spelled out) for themselves when they graduated.”

What does this say?

Goals a.k.a. resolutions are important.

I suspect that those that don’t make resolutions or set goals don’t have the mental strength to examine their life and to set important resolutions and goals. It’s easier to float through life like a cork on the ocean. They’re afraid of ____ (fill in the blank)

It’s time to THINK BIG!

Here’s a quote from “The Magic of Thinking Big”

“Fear of all kinds and sizes is a form of psychological infection. We can cure a mental infection the same way we cure a body infection—with specific, proved treatments… condition yourself with this fact: all confidence is acquired, developed. No one is born with confidence. Those people around you who radiate confidence, who have conquered worry, who are at ease everywhere and all the time, acquired their confidence, every bit of it.” ~ David Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big

ACTION. As Schwartz says: “action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear… Jot that down in your success rule book right now. Action cures fear.”

I’d make this a screen saver – ACTION CURES FEAR!

Action stems from a burning desire, an important, mission critical goal.

A friend of mine Darren Hardy (publisher of SUCCESS magazine) is giving away a fantastic gift – “Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life”. This is an 8 week program to help you establish and stick with your goals.

In order to receive the information you’re going to have to take action and request it. You can find out more and signup for it here:

http://darrenhardy.success.com/2009/12/db10-intro/

This will take mental strength to see this process through and then to stick with it. I can and want to help you make 2010 and the next decade YOUR best ever!

I’m offering a complimentary consultation to find more about mental strength coaching and see if you’re ready for it. If you’d like to schedule a friend conversation please download and the form here – DOC – PDF - and then e-mail it back to me.

I’m committed to helping you develop and increase your mental strength so that you will become unstoppable and have the best decade EVER!

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Why 2010 Will Be An Incredible Year For You

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Dec 242009

The world is undergoing a big shift. It may SEEM like there is a tremendous amount of turmoil and insecurity in our society. It may appear that it’s more difficult to succeed. It may feel like it’s easier to tell yourself that people aren’t spending money on services like yours.

The belief that it’s harder to be “healthy, wealthy and wise” seems to be spreading like wildfire.

But the reality is…

Everything You Need to Thrive Is Here Now

In fact, there has never been a better time to prosper and create abundance than right here right now.

And it’s not about the economy recovering so that people begin spending money. It’s not about hope and wishes. It begins with you knowing that a new way of enhancing and developing yourself is emerging out of the rubble of what no longer works, and really never did…at least in the long run.

And frankly, I am excited and inspired by it.

What’s This New Way?

The shift to a new way of living strong starts with the knowing WHY you will succeed.

Here are some powerful affirmations I’ve created to help you have an amazing 2010. You might want to ‘copy & paste’ them on a separate document. Then print them out and read them everyday and see what happens!

I will succeed because I have defined success on my own terms. I get to decide what MY success is!
I will succeed because I know that when I have aligned who I am with what I love, success is the ONLY option.
I will succeed because I get to do what you love everyday.
I will succeed because I’ve learned to attract and serve others from a caring, loving and secure place.
I will succeed because I know that creating mental strength and taking action is the key to ALL success.
I will succeed because I’ve learned to FOCUS (follow One Course Until Successful) and tune out everything else.
I will succeed because the world is a better place when I do.

I’m Here to Help

Yes, I want all of that and more for you in 2010!

Here are some of the shifts I am personally committed to helping you achieve for yourself and your life in 2010:

A tri-strength program (mental, physical and spiritual) that allows you to expand your energy and live life on YOUR terms with joy and ease.
Learning to master your energy for maximum fulfillment and results.
Becoming masterful at engaging people into what you do.
Inspiring you to move from GREAT to ELITE

To Your Inner Strength!

“See” you next year…

Gregg

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The Quest and Mental Strength

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Nov 102008

What a great positive and inspiring weekend…well except for the Bears loss that is I received Friday three DVD’s that I ordered. There are: Spiritual Warriors, Quest for Success and Quest – Happy, Healthy and Wise.

All these movies are extremely inspirational in their own right. I’d like to highlight the Quest movies. This is another production of Lili Fournier.

Lili abandoned her lucrative career, and set off on a journey to find a way to make the Quest. The previous Quest series of specials have been critically acclaimed as one of the most powerful, inspirational and motivational series ever produced on personal achievement and for pioneering spiritual programming on PBS.

Some of the participants in this Quest are Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, John Assaraf, T. Harv Eker and Sir Richard Branson.

The information in these two DVD’s is so powerful and inspiring that I made a commitment to create a workshop I’ve been dreaming about, Warriors Quest. The workshop will be base in indigenous and shamanic practices and experiences that will assist the participants to find and embrace their warrior roots. Once these roots are rediscovers the participants will be infused with their own inner and mental strength.

The learning’s will be is truly transformational and can be applied to all aspects of your everyday life.

I’ll have the rough outline will done in 7 to 10 days. Then I’ll find a location(s), probably Bend, OR, Sedona, AZ and Hawaii.

In the meantime, check out the movies…you’ll be inspired as well.

To Your Inner Strength,
Gregg

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Complimentary e-book on creating Warrior Mind Strength is ready!

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Oct 302008

I’m happy to say that I’m finished with myt complimentary e-book on creating Warrior Mind Strength. You can get it at http://WarriorMindCoach.com or at Facebook at http://profile.to/mindcoach

Enjoy!