Share your goals and let them live!
Author: Peter Bennett

I recently met up with John, a good friend of mine that I hadn't seen for a few months.

The last time I saw him he was bubbling over with excitement about how he was going to turn his life around and achieve his dreams. I guessed (correctly) that he'd recently been to a self-development seminar. His enthusiasm was infectious and we spent a happy evening talking about how we were going to change our lives.

This time I saw him, I popped the question:

"Hey John, still excited about your goals?"

"My goals? Oh yeah.... right.... my goals..... yeah, I guess so....."

This wasn't quite the response I'd been expecting. We talked a bit more and it turned out that, what with one thing and another, most of his enthusiasm had dissipated within a month of our last meeting. He now found looking back on the list of things he was going to do (and hadn't done) a daunting and unpleasant task.....

We sat over a beer or two talking about life, work, relationships, etc., and by the end of the evening we were planning again - trips, fun stuff we would do with our partners, our dreams and goals.


Have you ever experienced this? Have you noticed how often the setting of goals and the dreaming can be hugely empowering, but then the energy can disappear into nothing within a few days of your initial efforts?

Perhaps you've tried converting goals into action plans, and then been struck by how your dramatic and exciting goals have become lists of drudge work to wade through for months on end?

It's like catching butterflies: you see a beautiful butterfly in a sunlit wood, then you pin it dead to a card to be filed in a dusty museum. Do you have a goal-museum in your head? "Here are my dreams from 1996 - still mint-in-the box - never touched".....


When I was sitting talking to John that evening, it struck me just how vital support from other people is to achieving goals. Human beings can inspire in a way that processes, structures, task-lists and mantras cannot.

To make your goals live you need to speak them out; you need to share them with other people; you need to ask others to hold you to account, to help you, to encourage you. You need to visualise your goals powerfully and communicate your energy and excitement to others.

You've seen how one single motivational speaker can encourage a room full of people? If six friends / colleagues all share their goals with each other, then it only takes one person with energy at any one time to fire up all the others.


So, how do you do this? How do you capture the feedback and enthusiasm of your friends and colleagues and use it to help them and you achieve your goals?

The way we do this is through the online MyGoalMapping.com system that we (JoJaffa Ltd) developed together with Brian Mayne and Lift International, the developers of Goal Mapping.

We use it to visualise our goals, linking powerful images to strong goals. We use the action-mapping systems to keep track of where we are on our way to achieving these goals. Most importantly, we use the sharing systems to let our friends and colleagues see our goals, provide feedback, suggest actions, chat to us, and give us encouragement.

Most importantly, we find that we enjoy it!

We enjoy sharing and updating ours and each other's goalmaps, giving and receiving support from each other and the lively MyGoalMapping.com community. And we all know that if you enjoy it and are exciting by it, then you will stick at it.

So have a look at http://www.mygoalmapping.com and see what you can achieve through sharing your dreams and your goals.

Whether you use our systems or not, go out and share your goals and dreams with 3 people today and see the results you get.

Share your goals! Shout them out! Let them live!

Peter






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Peter Bennett is a Director of JoJaffa Ltd, publishers with Lift International of the online MyGoalMapping.com visual goal setting system.

Free 48hr trials of MyGoalMapping.com are available online at http://www.mygoalmapping.com

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