Take a Different Approach to Achieve Your Goal

I read an article a few years ago entitled "How Committed Are You to Your Goal?" by business coach and marketing expert, Wanda Grindstaff. In this article she mentions a young man who wanted to make $150,000 within the next year. She asked him "How does it feel to make $150,000 in a year?" He replied "If I knew that, I would have it and not want it." She then said to him "No, if you knew that, you would have it and want something bigger!"  Basically, this young man's way of thinking was backwards.
 
His reply seemed normal however; it was totally coming from a feeling of lack. He didn't have the $150,000 so he couldn't feel it.  To have the type of success you desire, you need to do more than take action. You will need to change the way you think and "feel the feeling" of being at your desired level of success even if you are not there yet.

As we are approaching a new year, there is a lot of talk about goals, determinations and resolutions for 2015. One of my favorite sayings is: “If you want something different, you have to do something different.”  Many of us have no problem saying what it is that we want.  I'm sure we all want our lives to be better in some way.  One sure way to accomplish your goals and have the successful life you desire to have is to "Do something different". 

What have you done different lately? Have you written out a specific action plan to follow or
thought about hiring a coach to help you accomplish your goals? Have you made the time to talk to someone new, taken a new route to work or volunteered to help someone with a project?  Please realize that when you do something different, new opportunities will begin to open up for you. 

"I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances." -- Lee Ann Womack

 "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten." -- Tony Robbins