A key component to effective goal setting is to convert your goals to specific, measurable goals and objectives. The more specific and measurable the goal and objective the better. As Canfield says, vague goals achieve vague results.
Given that we are goal seeking beings, such a process will also utilize the power of your subconscious mind, helping you to move towards and achieve your chosen goals even while you are sleeping.
Always write your goals and objectives down, putting them into written form. Making your goals and objectives concrete through writing them down also helps you to even more effectively engage your subconscious mind in this process.
While goals need to be obtainable, be sure to create goals that stretch you, as Canfield states. Create a breakthrough goal, a goal such that to achieve it would change everything in your life.
Be sure to review your goals daily. Be sure to read your goals three times a day. Read each goal out loud and with passion, closing your eyes to visualize your achieving the goal.
Such a process of stating and visualizing yous goals creates, as Canfield states, what is referred to as structural tension, between how things are and how you want them to be in your life. The more the structural tension the more the mind will work to close the gap. Read your goals each day. Make them visual to see each day, as with writing them down using 3 x 5 index cards.
Canfield also suggests carrying your more important goal in your wallet.
However, there are things that will attempt to stop you, once you have created and started to work on achieving your goal. Considerations are reasons the mind creates for why you should not achieve the goal you want. Fears are the second thing that will attempt to stop you, for example, fear of failing, of making a fool of yourself, etc. Roadblocks are external circumstances or situations that appear once you start work on achieving your goal. Considerations, fears and roadblocks will appear in the process of your working towards achieving your goal and the work anyone is to face them and move through them to achieve what you want, your goal.
