Life Balance the Key to Success
How can people say they have set goals if they haven’t written them down. There are those who do not write out their goals as they see it as an unnecessary extra task when they know what they want, so they believe. Because the majority of the population are visuals that is they see pictures in their minds eye writing things down, motorised memory, is the best way to recall items and therefore writing out your goals is a major factor on the road to goal achievement. This is the best step if you do it this way, as you write out your goals enjoy the feeling of having achieved them, experience the difference it has made to your life. This will be obvious but will feature later in the article for clarification purposes.
It is vital that you set goals for every area of your life if you want true life balance, professional goals are all well and good but without social goals a such as for your family life, your own well-being and relaxation your life would not be in harmony and balance. You old nine to five job meant that you looked forward to the clock hitting the moment you could go home, one of the dangers of working for your self is that you lose quality family time by ‘just completing this last task’ life balance is critical. Your family will support you but getting a work to life balance is essential for more than just keeping your relationship together.
Finally the most important part of goal setting, which is why I said that writing your goals out was very important is vizualization. Remember I said that in order to set good goals you need to know where you are going to end up before thinking about how to get there, this is where vizualization plays its part, because you have not got the thing you want you have to vizualize what it will be like when you do have it, how will your life change. In order to see your goal fully as an ideal that you want in your life you have to write it out fully and it is of little surprise that as you do so your goal becomes fixed in your mind and will probably have a few changes that make it a better goal anyway. relax in the knowledge that if you carry this step out correctly you are more than 50% of the way to achieving your goals, WOW. Look at your car with all its techincal gadgetry everything began as a thought they did not just happen as if Santa Claus visited where they are made.
If you do not believe that you can use vizualization just try these little exercises. Ever since we lived in caves man has thought in pictures, even his earliest language was pictures not words, so if I say Tiger to you a picture of a tiger will spring into your mind not the word itself. Try another one, when you last went on holiday and you were deciding where to go, as you read the brochure describing the area did you just see words or imagine the scenes in your mind. When you read a book your imagination paints pictures of the scene that is being described. We use vizualization every day of our lives.
I confess I love showing people how to use vizualization in their lives and have spent the last 25 years doing so.