Do you sometimes imagine living a life better than the one you are living now?
Do you see other people drive cars that you wish you could have?
Is there something in your mind that you want to do, but it’s so big that you are afraid to start?
Are you worried that you’ll never have enough money to own the house that you really want?
Are you curious about the success secrets of the rich and famous?
THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU CAN GET ANYTHING, IF YOU REALLY WANT IT!
Have you noticed that over the past few years these men Cosmos Maduka, Mike Adenuga, Basket Mouth, Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Otedola, Pastor Paul , Aliko Dangote, Raymond Dokpesi, Tony Elumelu, have been actively increasing the rate at which they succeed? They used GOAL MAPPING to transform themselves to Goal-Achieving-Machines. You can increase the rate at which you succeed using Goal Mapping.
Course Benefit
The main benefit of Goal Mapping is that you will, enjoy a purpose-full life.
Course Lessons
You will learn how to programme any area of your life to get what you want.
You will learn how to increase the rate at which you succeed.
You will learn the art of conscious and subconscious mind programming.
Course Definition
Goal Mapping is a success achieving process based on the principles of conscious and subconscious mind programming.
The difference between Goal Mapping and Goal Setting?
The difference can be explained using effectiveness and efficiency. EFFICIENCY: Anything that helps you to do things with minimum effort and get maximum result is said to be efficient. EFFECTIVENESS: Anything that helps you to do things with normal effort and get maximum result is said to be effective. With goal SETTING, you can convert your goals to effective machines; with goal MAPPING, you can convert your goals to efficient machines.
Course Outline
1. Select the Goal (Sequential Combination)
2. Visualize the Goal (Hypnosis Visualization)
3. Implement the Goal (Conscious Activation)
1. Select the Goal
There are some things you set out to achieve and immediately you succeed in getting them, the activity ends there. For example, you desire to have a car, you succeed in having the car, and that is it. The car does not reproduce or participate in helping you to achieve your next plan. In Goal Mapping any achievement that exists and expires by itself is not a goal.
Our first theory is: “Any goal that can reproduce itself as part of a bigger goal will help you grow faster.”
In essence, what we will select as goals in Goal Mapping are activities that have the ability to reproduce and replicate themselves; these are goals that do not exist by themselves, goals that are part of a bigger or another goal.
We will select from a list of goals a particular goal that is the easiest to implement, and when implemented can have the greatest impact on other goals. For this training, we will define our Goal Mapping period as one year from now. So for a start, take a plain sheet of paper and as a heading write the exact date of next year on it. Assuming today is 4th June, 2012; the date on the paper should be 4th June, 2013. Now let’s start with the selection process:
Step 1: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe – and the hand can write – the man can achieve.” One of the ways to convince yourself that you are serious with your goals is to write it and read it as often as you can.
List 10 goals that you plan to achieve between now and your next year date; remember that whatever you include in the list must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound (SMART). For example, becoming the best sleeper in PH is not a goal. Having a database of 1, 000 followers on my twitter account by 1st December 2012, is a better goal. As you select your goal don’t think about how you intend to do it, we will handle that later, for now just write what you want. Also you can increase your list beyond just 10 goals.
Step 2: “Assuming you stop working now, whatever brings money to you is an asset, whatever takes money from you is a liability.” Most of the goals you intend to achieve are good, but those that can reproduce or help you achieve more, are better. An asset closes the hole in your pocket, a liability opens the hole in your pocket.
My friend just got married, and at his wedding he received a N 500, 000:00 cash gift. One of his biggest dreams was to spend his honeymoon in the Bahamas, strolling all day along the beach with his wife. When he talked about it, you could sense the excitement. To him, this is the life of his dream – so he travelled with his wife to the Bahamas. The journey was exciting, the relaxation was good, but after this what next. What happens after they return from the Bahamas? Did going to the Bahamas put a hole in his pocket? To make matters worse, on his return he was downsized. For six months this young couple redefined life. Going to the
Bahamas was a dream, but at this point the Bahamas should not have been their major goal.
From your list of 10 goals, for each goal compare the money that goes out to the money that comes in, if you have a positive net cash balance, then that goal is an asset; if you have a negative cash balance the goal is a liability. For now, cancel all the liabilities; we will only concentrate on the assets. Why is because at this stage everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.
Step 3: “The law of efficiency states: whatever helps you to do things with minimum effort and yield maximum result is efficient.” For example, pulleys, car-jack. Your goals are supposed to be efficiency machines.
I have seen people who work very hard yet they earn very little. I have also seen smart people who work with little effort but receive the highest rewards. Because of this we will select our goals based on implementation and impact.
Goals can be easy or difficult to implement, based on the time and resources that we have presently. For example, to buy a car might be easy, but to get a private jet might be difficult. Also, a goal when implemented can have high or low impact.
Looking at your modified list (assets only), we will arrange our goals based on four different combinations. Which goal is?
a. Easy to implement with High impact (EH)
b. Easy to implement with Low impact (EL)
c. Difficult to implement with High impact (DH)
d. Difficult to implement with Low impact (DL)
Select the goal(s) in the EH group, this is your Main Goal and for the next section we will only work with this Main Goal.
Now rewrite you Main Goal as if you have already achieved it. Use personal, positive and present tense. Make it as short as possible and avoid ambiguous words. For example, if my goal is, to have a database of 1, 000 followers on my twitter account by 1st December 2012, what I will write is, I have a database of 1, 000 active followers on twitter. Words, letters, these are the languages of the left brain.
Step 4: Affirmation: “All thoughts are equal until emotions and reasons are added.” We are motivated emotionally, not logically. Try to explain to yourself why it is very important that you achieve this goal, this becomes your reason. Also think about the way you feel assuming you have achieved this goal already. When you do this, notice your emotion. Your emotions and reasons are catalysts that positively stir your subconscious for quicker/faster action.
2. Visualize the Goal
Do you know that your greatest actions are triggered emotionally, not logically?
Do you know that the conscious mind is stimulated logically, while the subconscious mind is stimulated emotionally?
Do you know that the ‘language’ of the conscious mind is alphabets, while the ‘language’ of the subconscious mind is images?
Our second theory is: “The rate at which you will achieve any goal is directly dependent on the rate at which your subconscious mind has been programmed to achieve that goal.”
Brian Tracy, the world renowned success coach, said, "Once the goals are programmed into the subconscious mind, it will take a power of its own to achieve the goals automatically."
One of the greatest secrets of the most successful people, in sports, business, religion, even in politics, is the ability to communicate effectively between the conscious and subconscious mind. Before they embark on any project or activity, they create a visual image and impress this image upon their subconscious mind. It is with this image that the subconscious creates the vibrations, activates the internal resources and manages the entire goal achievement process.
In this second stage your effort will be to convert your selected Main Goal to images and instruct the subconscious based on these images. Your subconscious controls the motions of every cell of your body, so once you begin to make certain suggestions to it, you will be moving towards that particular goal without consciously thinking about it.
The two aspects of this process we will look at are; Step 1: Visualization
"It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind." Orison Swett Marden
Have you ever wondered why you dream in pictures? Have you noticed that whatever someone says to you, whatever you hear, what you read, what you see, your mind does not ‘see or remember the words’, instead the mind sees and remembers things as pictures, images.
In the simplest of ways, and using as much colours as possible, draw your rewritten Main Goal. You can use pictures, symbols, stick-men drawing etc, but let it be something that makes you smile when you look at it.
By the side of your Main Picture, use drawings to represent your emotions and reasons.
The picture you now have becomes the image that represents your goal. This is the image you want your mind to carry, to remember, to dream of, to use and attract its natural resources.
Step 2: Hypnosis “Law of Attraction; the more accurately you are able to visualize the life you want to live in the future then the more likely you are to attract this and turn it into a reality.”
Our next activity will be dependent on two scientific research results. The first is that the connection between the conscious and the subconscious mind is open when you are in a
RELAXED state, especially just before you wake in the morning and just before you sleep at night. The second is that all behavior, when repeated consistently for 21 days becomes a habit.
You can use self hypnosis to create this natural/relaxed state of mind. Essentially it is a state where you are deeply relaxed yet highly focused. It's actually this state that you are trying to achieve anytime you do creative visualization. If you can naturally focus and create mental imagery, then you're in good shape. Otherwise, you can use self-hypnosis. Knowing self- hypnosis is one way to reach a deep focused state for visualization practice. By combining progressive muscle relaxation with affirmations you can improve your mental imagery. Learning how to do it properly can take some time.
Once you have created your image, sit in a comfortable, quiet and peaceful place, close your eyes, and take three deep breaths. Once your eyes are closed and you are relaxed, replay your image over and over. Prepare your image so that it will be easy for you to visualize or imagine it. As you replay your image, you may find that you skip or forget some of the designs. That is not a problem as long as you are using your imagination and seeing yourself accomplishing the task that is on your image. Replay the image over and over in your mind for approximately five to ten minutes, after which time you will come out of hypnosis by counting to three and opening your eyes. Do this at least twice daily.
How long will you spend on a given self-hypnosis goal? It's generally considered that it takes 21 days to form a new habit. That's what you are doing - forming a new positive sequence in the mind. Once you have spent 21 days working on a given goal, it will stick for some time. Some goals take longer, but start with the 21 days, and persevere until you succeed. It is helpful to refresh your goal every few months by doing a few sessions with the same suggestion or a slightly different one if you want to progress farther on the same path.
Richard Brooke wrote in his book, Mach II With Your Hair On Fire, that he purchased a mock-up of the cover of SUCCESS Magazine with his picture on the cover and looked at it every day. 9 years later, he was chosen for the cover of SUCCESS Magazine. I know of a friend who used to paste a picture of his first dream car on his wallet when he merely had a couple of a thousand Naira in his bank account. 1 year later, he bought the car. These stories are not coincidence. That’s the power of the subconscious mind. Scientists will tell you that this method works because of the R.A.S. (Reticular Activating System) in our brain, which is our antenna or radar that attract things that we focus to us.
3. Implement the Goal
Every goal that you successfully map into the subconscious will automatically create a pathway to achieve that desired goal. Majority of the times this pathway comes with ideas and activities that are beyond your present capacity. And the beauty of it is that as you begin to work on the goal, as you achieve the goal, you will naturally discover how well the process has helped in
developing you.
Thinking about the goal, writing the goal, visualizing the goal are easy and internal processes, where the bulk of work is, the most interesting part is acting on the goal.
During my study for this work, I discovered that almost 80% of the people I discussed with know what goal setting is. They start the year with very good and optimistic goals, but they hardly achieve any of these goals. It’s so bad that some of them even tell me that goal setting is a waste of time, effort and resources. But at the same time most of the people (about 20%) that I spoke with, were gradually increasing their success space.
What we all have in common, both the rich and the poor, the leaders and followers, even children, is called WISHES. And we are free to wish for anything, anytime, anyhow.
The issue is that most people mistake wishes, as goals. The truth is, the only difference between wishes and goals is action. The life I have seen around us is that, 80% of us spend our time conversing our wishes, the rest 20% spend their time converting their wishes. Until you do this last part of this process, what you have is just another good wish. Start, until you start, nothing will happen.
Our third theory is: Goals without actions are wishes; and wishes go with the wind.
Three ways to act on your goal:
Step 1: Strategy: What you must do
The storyline: every story has a beginning and an end, every goal has a beginning and a continuous end. Between now and when you will achieve your goal; there is sequence of activities that you must do in relation to one another. For example, 1, 000 twitter followers, by December is my goal. How I intend to achieve this becomes my storyline. “((?)How can I get people to follow me? (Answer)If you can talk about what they like reading or listening to. (?)What do people like to listen to or read about? (Answer)Sports, Entertainment, Personal Development, Politics, Business, Money etc. Ok, I have a better idea about business and Development, I will create a blog, update it daily and link the update to my twitter account. When people read and it helps them, they will follow me and also recommend others to follow me.) This is my storyline. A description of activities I have to do between now and when I achieve the goal. During the 21 days hypnosis, keep an exercise book, and write the ideas that come into your mind.
The timeline: without a timeline, your goals will lack the magic of commitment. Break the goal into smaller goals so you can achieve certain tasks between certain periods. With the 1, 000 twitter account example, my action is it publish 36 articles between March 2012 and December
2012. I used a monthly timeline, so I divided my goal into 9 smaller goals with one month interval for each timeline. I then gave myself a target for each month, 4 articles per month. That means 1 article per week.
The resource line: the people and the resources I will need for this project. To be able to publish
1 article per week I will need internet access and a computer. To start with, I have a laptop and an ISP. I’ll need a friend to also publish my work on his blog so I can get cross-referenced as well. These become my startup strategy.
Step 2: Skill: What you must know
What skill, expertise, training or qualification does your goal require? If you need to attend a seminar or training, then go for it. If it is a mentor or personal coach that you need get one. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to face an opportunity unprepared. Don’t let it happen to you, get that qualification/certification now. If your goal is to become the best leader in the world, then learn how to lead small groups of people, learn emotional intelligence etc. if you want to retire by 40 years, wow that’s great, start increasing your passive income, learn financial intelligence.
Step 3: Scale: How to measure your progress
In a football match, no matter how well a team plays, it is the number of goals that is used to measure and reward performance. Along with the timeline, develop a means of measuring and rewarding your success. For example, if I write one article at the end of the week, I’ll take myself out to Silverbird Cinema. If I complete my goal by December, then I’ll spend the Christmas holiday in Ghana. Having a goal is one thing, but you should also have a way of measuring your performance with respect to the goal, and rewarding yourself as you gradually succeed. I wish to see you at the top.
Thank You.
“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way” - W.H. Murray (Scottish Mountaineer)
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