How To ACHIEVE Your Set Goals by John Mabun

HOW TO ACHIEVE
YOUR SET GOALS

THE STEP BY STEP STRATEGIES FOR SETTING AND
ACHIEVING ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF YOUR GOALS
Foreword by
Niyi Adesanya
J O H N M A B U N
How to ACHIEVE your set Goals
The Step by Step Strategies for Se ng and Achieving One
Hundred Percent of Your Goals
Written by: John-Mabun Adesoga
Foreword by:
Niyi Adesanya
www.johnmabun.org
Goal Setting
FOREWORD
The idea of goal-setting is as old as time. Like the saying goes – Aim for the sun, so if you
don't get there, you will fall amongst the stars; the importance of goal setting cannot be
overlooked because at the end of the day, success is only possible when GOALS are
achieved. If there are no goals, how then will you know you are successful?
Now that the significance of goal setting has been established, we need to have a look at the
other aspect of goal setting – Action! Yes, everyone emphasises the importance of goal setting
in success, but very few focuses on the need for action. However, action is as important on
goal-setting because even the best dreams and goals cannot be achieved if there is no
continuous action to drive their attainment.
Often times, it is observed that we set goals and inadvertently lose track of them. At a time
when we are supposed to be attaining the goals, we realise that we are so far from actually
attaining them. Looking to get better and pushing our already written and planned goals to
actionable successes, we ask ourselves, “how do I achieve these goals?”
In this unique book, John-Mabun is not coming as another goal-setting preacher, he is set to
drive you to action and lead you to the attainment of your goals. He has put in this book,
realistic actionable methods that can move you from a point of overwhelming confusion and
non-action to a point of pursuit and attainment of your goals through consistent action.
This book gives a new insight that not only focuses on the set goals but also on you, the goal
setter; your personality and how you can set actionable goals. Most times, it requires more
than just self-will to drive a goal to action, it requires systems, tools and accountability to be
put in place.
At the end of the day, the only reason why we set goals is so that we can drive these goals to
attainment and attainment is only possible in action. But it is easy to get carried away with life
and happenings, it is easy to forget all about your goals and continue in the busyness of life. At
times like this, this book “How to achieve your set goals” by John-Mabun will be your guide.
Now, you don't have to bother about setting goals that won't give the desired results, you don't
have to fret over your ability to drive your goals to attainment. Let this book do all of the
thought processing in goal setting while open up your heart to be pushed to action.
Niyi Adesanya
CEO FifthGear Plus
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The Step by Step Strategies for Setting and Achieving One Hundred Percent of Your Goals
Goal Setting
CREDITS FOR GOAL SETTING
BLUEPRINT
Dare Adesogan
Lead Coach
Elicit Coaching Company
Setting Goals is one thing, achieving the set goals is another.
John Mabun Adesoga robustly covered the strategy for achievement in this book. He
succinctly also helps potential readers with values, beliefs and how to hack the mind!
Uniquely crafted and written in plain language for anyone to understand.

This book is a game changer!
Dr. Ope Banwo.

Founding Partner at, Banwo And Igbokwe, LLC with offices in Omaha, Nebraska, USA and
Lagos, Nigeria.
My Sincere Review Comment on the Book :
“I have had the pleasure of going through this momentous book on Goal Setting by Pastor
John-Mabun Adesoga and I can honestly say it's a serious manifesto on the technology of goal
setting for those who are serious about setting goals and achieving them in a predictable
manner and on a consistent basis.
Many people fail to achieve goals consistently because they have no process or blueprint to set
goals and achieve them within set time frame. This book provides the step by step blueprint on
the different stages for the reader to become a successful and deliberate goals setter and goals
achiever.
The book is a serious and very professional treatise on goal setting and a bit technical for the
casual reader but it definitely delivered on its premise and objectives as stated by the author at
the beginning of the book.
As a one who is big on goal setting myself, I would certainly recommend this fine for goal
setters who are serious about properly setting their goals and achieving them in a professional,
timely and predictable matter “
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CREDITS FOR GOAL SETTING
BLUEPRINT
Nearly everyone has a desire to succeed. However, unwittingly, a lot of people take steps
contrary to their desires.
In this well-researched Book, Pastor John-Mabun has explained some life-changing

principles. It speaks of companions in our habit, that might just be destroying us slowly.
I am persuaded to reason that even if no one has a recipe for success, putting these
principles into practice might make failure, difficult to attain.
In other words, living ones life according to these principles, should drastically reduce the
chances of failure.
So, whether you think you are budding, or you imagine you are blooming, this Book is an
invaluable assistant.
Ogunberu Ade.
I.T. Consultant and Programmer.
The book How to achieve your set goals is a simple and a direct instruction on achieving
your goals.
Pst John highlights the steps and procedures to make you goals a reality.
It is a must read for anyone who wants to make a difference.
Timon oviawe
Chief Operating Officer.
Skills Bridge Consulting.
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Goal Setting
PREFACE
The percentage of people who set goals and don't achieve their goals is alarming, a whooping
92%. For this reason, a lot of people are getting discouraged in the whole act of goal setting
itself.
I had the story of a young professional who said that she does not believe in goal setting and
that her life had always been led by whatever comes with the season, she just goes with the
flow and that things always sort themselves out. So, she is” when I get to that bridge, I will
cross it” person, and believe me the statistics of the people in that category is staggering.
Yes, there are lots of books and blogs about goal setting, but I will like to straightaway clarify
that this book is not about goal setting but rather about how to achieve set goals. This work
is a contribution in the limited category of books and blogs on goal achievement, so that I
would have contributed to my own quota in reducing the number of people who don't believe
in goal setting.
From studies and personal experience, most people still have at best a mediocre level of
understanding of what goal setting is and what it entails to set and achieve a goal.
I said personal experience referring not just to my own encounters alone, I conduct a class that
I call 'self-mastery school' where I always have an average of 50 people in attendance on
monthly basis for two year, talking about self-discovery, awareness, management and mastery
and one thing that consistently comes up is that many don't know who they really are, they are
mostly operating through their acquired minds, environmental scripts from friends, relatives,
associates and so on. Then it dawned on me that if this is the case then goal setting process is
out of order.
Based on these findings and feedback from other sources, I find this book crucial and
necessary. This book is written to address four major areas and one crucial factor of goal
setting. So, the book is structured in the following way –
BLOCK 1
This block addresses issues about the goal and goal setting.
In this block, I looked at the psychology of goal setting and the neuroscience of same.
Please don't expect a comprehensive and detail work on the psychology and neuroscience of
goal setting here as the book is not an academic submission in these areas.
All I have tried to do here is to reveal to the reader what goal setting does and can do to our
lifestyle and brain.
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PREFACE Goal Setting
Why we should embrace goal setting considering its impact in these two domains of life and
how it can help the reader live a healthier and better life.
BLOCK 2
In this block I took my time to look at the goal setter – you.
It is a block about 'hacking and harnessing' you. If you get the man right, you will get the
world right goes the saying. This is my take on the subject of goal setting as well.
Many people want a different result and yet are so naïve about who they are, their belief
system, the culture powering them, their values and son.
When all of these are out of order, goal setting loses its magic, mostly people and
organisations miss out on goals because they miss out on self, who they are and what they
stand for.
We want to find you, define you and identify your values in this block before we go ahead to
do any other thing of interest
The bridge –
In a chapter, I decided to quickly address few factor head on why people don't achieve their
goals just to quicken the reader again and realign you with the essence of the book.
BLOCK 3
In this bock I address the issues of systems, tools, techniques, exercises and games as
designed by psychologist and mental health practitioners.
All the tools, techniques and so on recommended on this block are all from professionals. I
realised that people's idea about goal setting are at best at mediocre level, more like ideas and
thoughts from the streets, so in like manner, many don't realise that there are professionally
designed and well researched tools that helps and aids the goal setter to achieve their purpose.
BLOCK 4
And finally, the last chapter in this book is in block four and it is about the ultimate goal
achievement system [G.A.S].
This system will give you a simple four processes or an extended six process system that you
can never forget and will guide you always even without consciously sitting down to assess
yourself.
It is such a powerful system that it will guide you on a daily basis at both conscious and
unconscious levels.
As I said earlier, it is not a book on goal setting but a book on goal getting. It is not an
academic work and research, but a book written from the soul of a concerned pastor and coach
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ISBN: 978-987-50118-5-2
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TABLE OF CONTENT
PREFACE
BLOCK 1 – About the goal
Chapter 1
1. Your Disposition and Goal Setting
2. Your Brain and Goal Setting
BLOCK 2 – About You: The Goal Setter
Chapter 2
1. Hack and Harness You
2. Personal Declaration
Chapter 3
1. My Goals | My Mission
2. Master Your Wiring: Increase Flow Mental Strength
Chapter 4
1. Cognitive Distortions
2. Hack and Harness You 2
· How to work with yourself and achieve more
· Career Quotient Quantification
· Intuition
Chapter 5
1. Career and Business Crafting:
Gain the leading edge
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TABLE OF CONTENT
PREFACE
THE BRIDGE
Chapter 6
1. Why people don't achieve their goals
BLOCK 3 – About the systems, tools and structures
Chapter 7
1. Goal Setting Laws

2. Unconventional laws of goal setting
Chapter 8
1. Goal Setting Exercises
Chapter 9
1. Goal Setting Tools and Techniques
BLOCK 4 – About the ultimate G.A.S

Chapter 10
1. The ultimate goal achievement system
· References
· About John-Mabun
· Other titles by John-Mabun
· Contact Us
· Parting Word and Prayer
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About the goal
THE PROCESS AND ACT.
BLOCK
ONE
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Goal
ChapterSetting
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Your Disposition and Goal-Setting
Your Disposition and Goal Setting
We will be exploring what goal setting does for you when you do one.
Rick Mc Daniel said “Goal-setters see future possibilities and the big picture.” This quote
describes the whole essence of goal setting and why the exercise is the first step in any
endeavour both personally and corporately.
Generally, people lack drive and motivation when a goal is not set or is not clear.
When you want to explain why you do what you do – in other words, you want meaning,
goal setting come in handy.
I want you to imagine this scenario, you woke up in the morning, dress up and you hit the
road without defining where you are headed. On your way you met a friend with whom
you chatted for 5 minutes and afterwards headed in the same direction with her, when you
got to where she took you, you decided to take a drink and then from there received a call
that your mum needed to see you. And on your way to your mum's place your remember
that you forgot something to a shop you had visited 2 days before, you quickly went to
pick it up when you mum called back that your meeting with her wasn't necessary again
and there and then you decided to visit a sick friend at the hospital.
What kind of a day will that be, now imagine a life time of similar agenda?
One tool that I know which helps greatly in living a meaningful life is goal setting.
According to the research work done by Locke and Lathan in 2006, setting goals are
linked with higher motivation, self-esteem, self-confidence, and autonomy, and research
has established a strong connection between goal-setting and success (Matthews, 2015)
Why Goal Setting
When our mind is set on achieving a purpose, we become more determined and focused
than one whose mind is not fixed. Challenges and obstacles become mere hinderances
rather than a reason to give up.
Studies have shown that when we train our mind to think about what we want in life and
work towards reaching it, the brain automatically rewires itself to acquire the ideal self-
image and makes it an essential part of our identity.
If we achieve the goal, we achieve fulfilment, and if we don't, our brain keeps nudging us
until we achieve it.
Researchers in the fields of mental health and psychology associate goals with a higher
predictability of success, for the following reasons:
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Chapter 1
Personal Values
Goals challenge our values, if you must achieve certain set goals, you must revisit your
values in life, this is so important that I created an exercise to help you craft your true
values as against acquired values that can't support your set goals in life. Your core values
come to play once you are set to execute your set goals in life. In other words, your
identity will have to shift if you must achieve your goals
Alignment with reality
There is a goal setting model called GROW Model. A goal that is worth anything will
ensure you align with realities of life and the realities of your life. The present conditions
you are in and how to navigate with them. Your strength and weakness. What you are and
what you are not.
You will be focused to go into a state of introspection, where you will self-analyse and
make right choices. You will come to understand what is called realistic expectations from
yourself.
How Goal Setting help lead a great Life?
Leading a great life is about our ability to imagine and conceive a great future that we
intend to start living now.
Goal setting wakes us up to requirements of this great future we so desire, the activity
helps us to manage our expectations by providing the necessary guidelines needed.
Why we want what we want or need is proven and checked by the act of goal setting. Our
wants and needs are pruned and justified or eliminated without any sense of loss. Our life
style is been restructured in essence and a new identity gradually emerge.
The right motivations see the light of the day which helps the goal setter to have great
insight about what he or she desires. In other words, desired are properly adjusted.
Extracting from psychology today, let me show you instances of how goal-setting is
effectively used as a psychological intervention.
Popular therapeutic practices like the CBT or Anger Management often use weekly goal
planners or charts to record the progress of the clients and help them keep track of the
exercises they are supposed to practice at home.
Even in child therapies, counsellors often use mood charts or set weekly exercises for the
kid, and provide positive reinforcements to the child on accomplishing them.
Almost all educational institutions today agree that setting clear goals makes it easier for
the students to realize their strengths and work on building them. It boosts their self-
confidence and lets them identify the broader targets in life.
Goal-setting as a personal habit is also beneficial to hold ourselves in perspective.
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Personal goal-setting may be as simple as maintaining a daily to-do list or planning our
career moves beforehand. As we have a clear vision of the end-goals, it becomes easier for
us to advance towards them.
The A – B – C of Goal Setting
Having realised how goal setting help us lead a great life and how it shapes our life style
all together. I want to quickly introduce you to extremely simple goal setting guidelines
that can help you to right away start setting goals and guide yourself with one for a
meaningful life.
The A – B – C rule was introduced by Frank L. Smoll, [Ph.D.] and he calls it the A – B – C
of goals
A – Achievable
This is good place to start from, ensure that you can achieve the goal you have set. That
simply means that this simple rule or principle gets you to start thinking of your strength.
Simple but a great way to do a simple self-check.
B – Believable
If you have any doubt about your ability to achieve a set goal, then you will ask you self
why. This ensure that you start thinking about you and what you do. Introspection begins.
C – Committed
If the goal set is achievable and believable then are you willing to commit yourself to it. If
you believe the goal and you reckon that it is achievable then you must do, if you are
failing to take action then it's time to check what we are committed to in life.
Be Sure of What You Are Doing
When people are introduced to goal setting newly, they get excited about the whole idea
and jump at it and months down the line, you will hear same people tell you that goal
setting sucks.
I know of a young professional who said he doesn't believe in goal setting, that it does not
work for him. In my years as a pastor and coach I have come to discover that the mix up
lies in the fact that people don't understand what type of goal they are setting and as such
have wrong expectations. To drive home my point, let's consider these three types of goals
and the expectations that should follow as against the expectations that people have.
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The Process Goals –

these are goals that teaches you to stick to a procedure, or stick to execution plans. It is a
goal that teaches you discipline to hold a routine.
So, the outcome or expectation should be that after weeks or months you are now able to
stay with a routine. Now imagine a new bee who takes that as a performance goal and now
expects a performance outcome such as numerical increase or loss of weight. This mix up
discourages some from setting goals. The other type of goal is called
The Performance Goals –
this is different from process goals that helps in establishing routine. This type of goal
measures progress. For example, I want to drop a particular habit and I set out to see at
what rate [progress] this happens. The goal here is to see definite progress and celebrate it.
It is much more quantifiable than the process goal.
Expectation in this case is to record a definite increase or decrease in what I do.
The Outcome Goals –
this is a combination of the earlier two types of goals – process and performance. The
greatest undoing of new bees is that most of them set outcome goals without checking for
the parameters that measures both process and performance objectives.
Both individual and organisations fall prey to this great mistake and end up saying goal
setting sucks.
In as much as goal setting involves the subconscious, it is real and practical, it is SMART.
Check This Out as You Set Your Goals –
Just like the A – B – C of goals that I ensure guides me and my clients when setting goals,
there are other measures that I take to ensure that I and my clients align with the goal to
ensure both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.
You need to be strongly motivated to get your goals to be achievable if you don't want to
join the 'goal setting sucks' movement.
There are several models that can help you do this, but I always recommend this simple
model published in the journal of A.P.A [American Psychological Association]. I love it
because it easy to use as a guide and yet probes deeply when you implement. It is called
the E-E-E Model of Goal-Setting.
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I approach this model as deep probing questions -

Does the goal Enlighten you?
doe this goal help you rearrange your priorities by opening your eyes to your strength and
weakness. You must gain a meaningful insight about yourself
Is the goal Encouraging?
are provided with the impetus to execute and win. Are you motivated and encouraged? Are
you stirred from deep within?
Is the goal Enabling you?
does it give you confidence. Can you figure the balance between the ideal situation on
ground and the real situation you want to achieve?
Does it help you fit into the social support system that can help you achieve the goal?
Incorporating Goal Setting Principles for Successful Living
Many people are distracted from achieving great results in life and yet people can't easily
identify what distractions are, if they can at all.
When you incorporate the principles of goals setting, you will be open to a host of
possibilities in life and you will identify what activities are distracting you and which ones
are leading you achieving your desires in life and business
To help us increase productivity at corporate levels and increase performance as a leader,
the research work of Martin Seligman incorporates the principles of goal-setting in several
ways and the following recommendations were made –
Commit to a specific set of actions for goal-setting.
Considers individual ethics and core values before setting goals.
The following remarkable statements were made by different researchers concerning
successful living and goal setting –
Professor Gary P. Latham
Aligns actions to individual capacities and character strengths.
Create space for introspection and insight into one's thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
Emphasized the role of successful living and the interconnection of it to goal-setting in his
ground-breaking work on life goals and psychology. He mentioned that optimistic people
have a strong sense of self, which helps them derive the motivation to set goals and extend
them for self-improvement.
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Successful living, according to Latham, intersects with goal-setting in the sense that it
calls for building self-efficacy and create a sense of mastery over our internal and external
environments.
Doug Smith
Author Doug Smith, mentioned that successful goal-setting mainly involves asking three
questions to the self:
How important is the goal for us?
How confident are we about reaching and accomplishing the goal? How consistent is the
goal with our core values and beliefs?
Smith said that successful leaders and management professionals use this systematic
approach when striving for goal accomplishments and use threads of positive psychology
such as optimism, thought replacement, strength, and resilience.
Greater Accomplishments Through Goal Setting
God created man to make the world a better place and as a result achieve great fits in life
through the industry you find yourself. Humanity yearns for greatness and impactful life
style. Every one you see want to be great at something.
We all want to live and die for something great. We crave great results in what we do.
Applying the principles of goal setting goes a long way in helping humanity achieve this
task of becoming great and ding great things.
Edwin Locke proposed a goal setting theory that he believes will help humanity achieve
great results in whatever you do, his believe is that rather than focusing on general
outcomes, professional goal-setting and management should focus on meticulousness of
the tasks and address specific goals for each area of accomplishment. This he believes will
help people tap the power of goal setting for accurate and measurable goals.
Locke believed that there are five key principles of goal-setting:
Clarity – How specific and comprehensive the goal is.
Challenge – How difficult the goal is and the degree to which it requires us to extend our
abilities.
Commitment – How dedicated we are to reach the goal and what value it renders to us.
Feedback – How our achievements are perceived and recognized by others. Positive
feedback increases satisfaction after achieving the target.
Complexity – The difficulty of the tasks that we need to accomplish for reaching the
ultimate goal.
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Your
Brain
and Gaol
Setting
Your Brain and Gaol Setting

I will bring your way the different impacts that goal setting has on our minds and health
generally so that you will know that the act of goal setting truly enhances our life styles
and successful living greatly.
From our previous discussions, you have seen the direct impact that goal setting has on
our identity as a person and how it helps increase the productivity and motivations of staff
in organisations. Its only logical now to realise that for there to be such an impact on
identity and organisational performance, then definitely it should have a degree of impact
on our brains.
The brain is the central nervous system and as the central coordinating organ, it is not
possible for the human identity to shift without a direct correlation and impact on the
central controlling organ which is the brain and of cause by extension all the other organs
that makes up the human system.
According to Granot, Stern, and Balcetis –
Goal-setting gives a boost to our Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) which makes us readily
act on it. When the goal is tricky and yet achievable, the SBP gets an enhanced spike that
increases our zeal to act and achieve it.
Impossible or challenging goals, or the ones that make us question our abilities, are linked
with low systolic thrust and they do not provide the spike for ready action. Extensive
studies have shown how neural connections and the brain activities pump up our
motivation to set and achieve goals.
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For example, the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (MPFC) deals with the present orientation of
the goal-setting process. The MPFC activation allows us to think about what we need to do
right now to achieve our goals, and we set the targets accordingly.
If the goal seems too distant or is too future-oriented, the MPFC activation lowers
significantly which is why we may lose interest in sticking to the goals or lose the vision
of what might be the best ways to achieve them.
Usually, goals are the incidents that have not yet happened to us, but we want to make
them happen. And since they cannot occur on their own, we follow a set of rules or a plan
to ensure achievement. (Balcetis, & Dunning, 2010).
The sense of struggle and power testing that involves the goal-setting process is what
makes it so engaging to us. For example, a primary drive or intrinsic motivation that forces
us to do well on a new or challenging assignment is the ability to demonstrate and validate
our skills (McClelland, 1985).
The underlying neurochemical changes that cause this motivation to keep burning is
therefore vital to understand before we embark on setting the goals.
RAS AND GOAL SETTING

Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a part of the brain that plays
a crucial role in regulating our goal-setting actions. The RAS is a
cluster of cells located at the base of the brain that processes all
the information and sensory channels related to the things that
need our attention right now.
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An exciting fact about RAS activation is that it gives us signs. For example, a person
whose goal is to start a family, is likely to see more couples and families around him.
This happens because of RAS activation. The RAS is aware that this is what the person is
paying attention to at this very moment, and hence he chooses to register only the
information related to it. .
Before deciding to start a family, the RAS would naturally have filtered out any such
information. The person may have seen so many couples walking past him earlier, but
never really paid attention to them, until the time he decided to get married himself.
(Alvarez and Emory 2006).
The reticular activation functions in two ways when it comes to goal-setting:
1. Writing goals
RAS gets activated by the simple act of putting our goals in pen and paper. Seeing our
aims written in clear words before us, feeling the touch of the pen, or engaging in the
thinking process of writing the targets trigger the RAS functions and ensures that we go
for it.
2. Planning goals
The art of imagination is essential when it comes to goal-setting. Studies have shown that
people who have the power to visualize their goals before setting their actions have a
higher activation at the brain level.
Repeatedly imagining success and reminding ourselves of our targets maintains a steady
stimulation in the RAS and promotes effective goal-setting (Berkman, Lieberman, 2009).
The RAS activation helps in focussing the mind to attend to only those pieces of
information that are related to the goals we seek to achieve.
Neurologists working on the science of goal-setting have proved that the brain cannot
distinguish between reality and imagined reality. So, when we give ourselves a picture of
the
goal we want to achieve, the mind starts believing it to be real.
Eventually, the brain begins driving us to take actions for making the state and hence, the
goal-setting becomes a success.
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About you
THE GOAL SETTER
BLOCK
TWO
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Having seen the impact that goal setting has on our lifestyle, success mechanism and
brain, then it is time to understand the goal setter – you.
In this block we want to start the process self-mastery through the journey of discovery,
awareness and management. If the act of goal setting is so powerful with such tremendous
impact on our lives and business, then it is important to put in perspective the one carrying
out the act.
We need to establish a form alignment between the goal setter and the goal setting process
or act. But before that could be achieved, there is a need to embark on the journey of self-
mastery.
To achieve the self-mastery quest, I have dedicated four chapters of this book to achieve
that.
The first thing we will do is to “hack” into who you truly are and then look into how you
are “wired” by working on your mental strength, that achieved we will come back to see
how you can work with yourself effectively to produce great result by “hacking” you again
and then finally see how you can achieve personal mastery by establishing purpose to a
degree.
In all this is an exciting block of four chapters all about you so we be sure that the goal set
is done by you and not the “acquired” you, enjoy.
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Chapter 2
Hack and Harness You
Introduction –
In this chapter we going to start focusing on you the goal setter. Like I have explained
earlier, the last block and chapter examined the goal and the purpose. Now our search light
comes back to you.
We are going to examine three sub topics to ensure that you identify and align with the
said goal. The first sub topic that will begin the process of self- examination and
exploration is for you to make personal declaration [I am]. Making a personal declaration
brings you to state of being, a state of consciousness, you will come in contact with who
you are and most of all declare it to and for yourself.
Once that is done and you have made a proclamation, the next thing is to write a big, hairy
and audacious goal [BHAG]. That is so because, I want you to experience a shift in your
mind and then set a goal.
Finally, to really align your declaration and BHAG, we will check your guiding
philosophies – your core beliefs. This is what will ensure the goal in question is set from
your core-self known as your true you as against goals been set from your acquired mind.
Personal Declaration [I am]
A Deliberate Choice of Being | ipse dixit. In Latin, it literally means - 'he himself said it”
He 'himself' connotes that declaration is made by the true mind, not the acquired.
Declaration is mostly made from the core, the true person comes to the fore mostly when a
declaration is made, all forms of environmental influence are dropped. The soul speaks in
declaration not the influenced and conformed mind of the goal setter.
The act of declaration makes you to go through introspection, you go beyond ego and the
mind into the soul, which is the realm of reality of being.
Your true potential is tapped into at this point, when this happen, you find yourself saying
things like, 'where did that come from' when you descend back into the mind from your
soul.
Declaration is a formal or explicit statement or announcement from your soul [true self] to
your mind [acquired self]. It is "a declaration of love" in the sense that, your ideal as
against your real potential is revealed.
A declaration is an announcement, it is statement of truth, a communication of insight, a
pronouncement of identity, a proclamation of self. Again, in Latin, ipse dixit, which
means, my true identity said it. I [true me] have spoken.
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Things To Consider When Creating A Declaration:

1. How do you want to think?
2. What brings you joy in life?
3. How do you want to feel?
4. How and what do you want to believe?
5. How do you want to conduct yourself?
6. What types of food and substance do you want to put into your body?
7. What do you want the purpose of life to be?
8. What inspires you?
9. What kind of people do you want to be around?
10. What kind of person do you want to be?
All these questions ensure that you go into your ideal identity. The questions break ego,
break you into the realm of imagination, when properly guided by these questions, you
will definitely have an encounter with the real you that had been 'suppressed' by your
conformed life style.
Take a few minutes now to answer each question and actually write down your answers.
The answers that you have describes you.
This book I about helping you achieve your set goals; the process will be initiated if you
ensure you actually do the exercise.
Don't read through, questions are not for reading, questions deserve your response, so
please answer the questions, don't come back to them, answer them now, thank you.
Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you build your own Personal Declaration
Statement:
Go big.
The tendency to be influenced by your old, conformed mind is high, so to really ensure
you make a proper declaration, I will advise that you go really big in your reasoning until
your old self is intimidated.
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Just imagine you are Elon Musk, or Alexander the Great or Albert Einstein. What kind of
declaration will you make?
No limits.
Imagine you have an endless supply of money, power, and potential, what would you do
with your time? Guess what? You do! Yes, you do, you have all in abundance, it is your
old mind that is speaking contrary.
Give it time.
This is a living document. Let it grow and change. Don't forget that your old self is still
adjust to this strange and all new expressions from your soul, your true you, so allow
yourself to adjust, it might take a while, but let it be.
Build your dream.
Don't hold anything back. Don't be ashamed to have material thoughts and desires. You
deserve health, wealth, and happiness! Put everything in your document, it is your
document, let it be detailed.
Here are some examples so you can get the idea:
Example 1
I, (NAME), am going to have an epic day! I inspire and motivate those around me! I am
actively completing the things that are both important short term AND long term. I am full
of energy, have a clear mind, have plenty of time to complete my projects and feel healthy
inside and out.
I, (NAME), am a masterful creator. I create products and services that provide huge value
to the people I work with
I have the ability to choose. I CHOOSE to create energy, warmth, acceptance, productivity
and good vibes
I am powerful beyond measure. I can create ANYTHING I set my mind on and I
constantly tap into the divine power around me.
Example 2
I, (NAME), am wealthy with positive monthly cash flow. I have a strong, healthy savings
account and I make the investments I want. I drive the cars I want, live in the house I
want, wear what I want, travel where I want, and am very generous with my friends and in
the community.
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I am a loyal friend! I am kind to everyone. I am filled with light, knowledge and power.
God, the creator of all things, is my Father and my personal mentor. He teaches me daily
how to tap into inspiration and attract all good things. As I do this, I can create
ANYTHING.
I am one of the most highly sought-after personalities, leaders, and individuals.
Companies apply to work with me and investors, venture capital and private equity
groups seek me out and ask for my opinions.
I have amazing relationships with my wife and my family. I constantly go above and
beyond with my wife and we have a legendary relationship—full of love and growth. I
bring love and understanding, acceptance, and compassion into every interaction I have. I
am filled with love always.
I am a good person.
Chant your declaration -
You will love the extra power you will have each day as you read your Personal
Declaration Statement. Remember, you need to read them with POWER and
CONVICTION – Chant Them
As you write your Personal Declaration Statements, I would love to see them. If you feel
like sharing, please email a copy to me.
B. H. A. G. [My Goals | My Mission] – Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal.
The essence of setting a BHAG is to help you go mega. BHAG takes you beyond you
acquired mind to the deep recesses of your soul where you reside, and believe me, you
are big in that realm
A personal BHAG gives you a vivid description of possibilities. What your acquired
mind don't know is possible will be revealed to you by a BHAG. A BHAG is like writing
down in a structured form what you declared earlier through your personal declaration.
A BHAG brings to the fore your hidden possibilities, it introduces you to a new world in
your old self, it brings s new dawn and a new consciousness. The only thing you need
now is to BELIEVE so that your soul, your true self can help you generate as it were a
new set of values that can power your new found strength.
Believe orchestrates a shift in your identity from your old self to a new self, and with a
shift comes a new set of values so that you can experience congruence that is needed to
go on.
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A BHAG is a 10+ year visionary goal that describes your envisioned future. A BHAG
should stretch you and guide you while helping you determine what to say yes and no to
as you forge ahead to accomplish your goals.
A good BHAG is specific, numeric and has a time-based component. It should also
connect to the soul and inspire us to work hard to reach it.
Here are 4 Tips to developing a great BHAG:
All these tips will work when you first believe, because there is still a struggle ongoing
between your old self [which know, hear and relate with well] and the new you [which
hardly know, listen to or relate with].
So, it is your believe [trust] in this new you that will power the shift, so all these four tips
will have to be done with the new you.
1. Choose an arrival or completion date.
2. Develop a quantitative goal to achieve.
3. Make it qualitative in a way that connects to the heart and inspires you to achieve it
while connecting to your core values and purpose.
Share with others around you to hold yourself accountable
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Five Guiding Criteria for A Good BHAG:

1. A good BHAG is set with understanding, not bravado, is bold, but not unrealistic.
2. It fits squarely in the three circles of
1. what you are deeply passionate about (including your own core values and
purpose),
2. what drives your economic logic, and;
3. what differentiates you (what you personally can be the best in the world at).
3. It should have a long period to achieve—10 to 30 years.
4. It is clear, compelling, and easy to grasp.
5. It directly reflects your core values and core purpose.
Photo credit: sevencareercoaching
How to Link my Declaration with my BHAG
Introduction –
The declaration and BHAG was done by your 'self', your true you.
Your 'acquired' mind will get in the way when trying to 'live' [execute the goal] that life.
To prevent this from happening, you will need to get 'conscious' of two areas of your 'self'
“When the unconscious controls the conscious, you will call what happens to you fate” –
Carl Jung
“Consciously adopting your beliefs can make your life amazing. Randomly or
unconsciously collecting beliefs can make your life hell” – paidtoexist.com
Two components to help you achieve –
1st component:
a Guiding Philosophy – core beliefs and its purpose.
Your guiding philosophy can be defined as an idea in your mind that you agreed to long
ago and had since forgotten.
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WHAT ARE YOU DEEPLY

PASSIONATE
These philosophies guide all we do at the
ABOUT
unconscious level, in fact, they define us,
they are there just the same way we might
not see the windshield because we have
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It might not seem like much until we bump BEST IN THE ECONOMY
our head into it. Beliefs are the same way WORLD AT ENGINE
Core Beliefs ... 1st part of guiding philosophy

Ensure your beliefs are not preventing you from your dreams!!! Some examples of core
values include the following:
· A belief that the world is a fundamentally brutal place and that only the strong
survive
· A belief that people are powerless to change their fates or personal situations
· A belief that you don't deserve good things or relationships in life
· A belief that other people are fundamentally untrustworthy and unloving
· A belief that life is meaningless
How to change believes –
One great way that have helped me and many clients change their beliefs so that they can
experience new things and promotions is to get conscious of your values.
They way to do this is by listing all your values in life and even segment them, for
example –
· Money values
· Work/Job values
· Family values
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· Relationship values
· Health values
· Spirituality values
· Personal growth or development values and son.
Having done that, take your time to define them and ask them what each means and how
each of these values is helping you progress in life. And finally check how these values
align with your BHAG and declarations.
Another exercise I carry out to check and test values is what I call the Vision – Value
Exercise. It is attached here with –
The Vision – Values Exercise
This exercise will help you discover your true values.
People unknowingly have 'acquired' values as against 'true' values
Acquired values are environmentally imposed values, by environmental, I mean values
acquired from FRANs [friends | relatives | associates | neighbours]
True values are 'hidden' in your subconscious and are untapped
Acquired values are not empowering in real life situations because they are superficial –
hence people are pulled away from their desires and frustrated.
True values are untapped and therefore suppressed, so at best your true values are
potentials. What we want to do in this exercise therefore is to help you tap the your 'true'
values and
be empowered in real life challenges – using the back from the future technique.
Step 1 –
Write down who you are in 10 years' time
Step 2 –
Write down your feelings as clearly as you can [what you see, hear, feel, etc.]
Step 3 –
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Step 3 –
From the list of values you are provided with, now tick what your values are, the ones that
can support what you saw.
Step 4 –
Write in front of each value, the meaning of each word you chose.
Values are mere words until they take root in your subconscious – John-Mabun.
Values are not selected, they are discovered. We don't choose our values reveal themselves
to us – Scott Jeffrey
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Chapter 3
Master your Wiring: Increase Flow
Introduction –
A lot depends on our brain, if there will be performance and productivity, the brain must
be trained and equipped or else, you will remain in the dream world. The link between the
soul and planet earth is the brain.
When you harness your soul to start operating as your true self with your true and ideal
identity, there won't be a performance except the brain is as well harness so the that there
can be a flow of ideas from the realm of the soul into the world without any form of short
circuiting.
Therefore, in this third chapter of the 2 block, we will be dealing with mental strength and
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capacities.
The desired outcomes of neurohacking [understanding human wiring] cover everything
from focused productivity, to expanded creativity, more restful sleep, reduced anxiety,
enhanced empathy, and anything else that contributes to the psychological well-being and
emotional health of whole, thriving human beings.
Applications and research now show that Mental Strength is directly and closely related
with: Performance – explains up to 25% of the variation in performance
Behaviour – more engaged, more positive, more “can do”
Well-being – more contentment, better stress management, less bullying
Aspirations – more ambitious, prepared to manage more risk Realisations – change,
commitment, focus, direction
Once you understand your wiring mentally, you will be to relate well with “self” which is
the place of creativity and authenticity.
Also, we will be looking at cognitive distortions that takes us off the outflow from the soul
and how to handle them, cognitive distortion are vices that are fighting the new you.
Inability to control our brain is responsible for most of the result we get and are still
getting.
Mental Strength Defined
There are two definitions that have emerged in recent times, both agreeing on many
aspects of the definition.
According to Clough and Earle –
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Mental Strength is first the capacity that an individual has to deal effectively with the
stressors [not cope with], challenges and pressure to present their best performance in spite
of their circumstances (2012).
And according to Clough & Strycharczyk –
It is also part of the personality trait that contributes the large part of how an individual
deal with stress, the pressures and challenges facing them no matter what the situation is
around them (2012).
Elements of Mental Strength [Mantra]
Increase Your Performance by Realising the Following:
First of all –
Personality trait has plasticity.
That means personality is not fixed, it is pliable and capable of changing. It is plastic This
means it is good news when trying to implement change in yourself
“That is me” program can be erased or at the least “adjusted”
So now think of situations that your “personality” has been stopping you.
Now you know that “self” is stronger than personality
Secondly –
You can respond and perform
[instead of reacting and losing control] when under stress, pressure and adversity.
The “best” response can be achieved by asking yourself three times calling your own
name each time before the question –
This led us to the understanding of why two people that may come from similar
background and life experience have different outcomes when faced with similar
situations.
Thirdly –
You have a “deal with” as opposed to “coping with” mechanism.
Resilience [which is a coping mechanism], which tend to have a connotation as a passive
quality – is an acquired mind
Although the situation might be challenging, but generally see the world as full of
opportunities, and possess the confidence to take on problems and challenges.
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Finally –
You have in-built responsibility and accountability system
Stay accountable for how the situation was dealt with? Not accepting responsibility is an
acquired program
Those with a strong element of mental strength will admit when things went wrong, and
admit they could have done things differently.
Guidelines:
To help you bring out the elements of mental strength and increase performance -
The 4 C's of Mental Strength –
CHALLENGE >> COMMITMENT >> CONTROL >> CONFIDENCE.
Subscale 1. Challenge
This subscale describes the extent to which you see problems as threats or opportunities.
Do you actively seek out challenge and change and identify these as ways for self –
development?
The Two Parts of Challenge are:
Does the individual see a challenge or a threat? Rate yourself
Will you learn from the challenge no matter the outcome?
Subscale 2. Commitment
This subscale is sometimes described as “stickability” ...
Do you have the ability to carry out tasks successfully despite any problems or obstacles
that arise whilst achieving the goal?
The Two Parts to Commitment are:
Do you set goals? Rate yourself
Do you achieve your goals, that is, will you finish what you start? Yes | No
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Subscale 3. Control
At this subscale, you are capable of exerting more influence on your working environment
and you are more confident about working in complex or multi-tasked situations.
The Two Subcategories in Control are:
Emotion control – are you able to control your emotions. Rate yourself Life control –
more control of your life. Yes | No
Subscale 4. Confidence
Are you high in confidence evidenced by having the self-belief to successfully complete
tasks?
Audacity: How audacious are you? – rate yourself.
Less confident individuals are also likely to be less persistent and make more errors. The
Two Subcategories in Confidence are:
Confidence in abilities – do you believe that you are a truly worthwhile person.
Interpersonal Confidence – are you assertive without bullying or pushy.
Cognitive Distortions:
Distorted Thinking Patterns | When your brain lies to you –
Introduction –
Cognitive distortions are thinking traps | stinking thinking | thinking ditches They can
cage, hinder and stop anyone from performing maximally.
I describe them as seeing, hearing and feeling wrongly.
Some common patterns are –
1. Filtering.
Magnifying negative details while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation or
discussion
For instance, a person may pick out a single, unpleasant detail and dwell on it exclusively
so that their vision of reality becomes darkened or distorted
s saying so, we know what they are feeling and why they act the way they do.
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These are “I have my rules people”, “I have my boundaries” people – this is their self-built
limitations
Fixing Cognitive Distortions
1. Identify Our Cognitive Distortion
We need to create a list of our troublesome thoughts and examine them later for matches
with a list of cognitive distortions.
An examination of our cognitive distortions allows us to see which distortions we prefer.
Additionally, this process will allow us to think about our problem or predicament in more
natural and realistic ways.
2. Examine the Evidence.

A thorough examination of an experience allows us to identify the basis for our distorted
thoughts.
If we are quite self-critical, then, we should identify a number of experiences and
situations where we had success.
3. Double Standard Method.

An alternative to “self-talk” that is harsh and demeaning is to talk to ourselves in the same
compassionate and caring way that we would talk with a friend in a similar situation.
4. Thinking in Shades of Grey.
Instead of thinking about our problem or predicament in an either-or polarity, evaluate
things on a scale of 0-100.
When a plan or goal is not fully realized, think about and evaluate the experience as a
partial success, again, on a scale of 0-100.
5. Survey Method.
We need to seek the opinions of others regarding whether our thoughts and attitudes are
realistic.
If we believe that our anxiety about an upcoming event is unwarranted, check with a few
trusted friends or relatives.
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This hinders people from seeing the big picture in life

2. Polarized Thinking (or “Black and White” Thinking).
Things are either “black-or-white.”
We have to be perfect or we're a failure — there is no middle ground.
You place people or situations in “either/or” categories, with no shades of grey or allowing
for the complexity of most people and situations.
If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. This is why
some people never started their business or take some giant steps
3. Overgeneralization.
We come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence.
If something bad happens only once, we expect it to happen over and over again.
A person may see a single, unpleasant event as part of a never-ending pattern of defeat.
This is why some never made sales – and business is not growing
4. Jumping to Conclusions.
Without individual
In particular, we are able to determine how people are feeling toward us.
For example, a person may conclude that someone is reacting negatively toward them but
doesn't actually bother to find out if they are correct.
Another example is a person may anticipate that things will turn out badly, and will feel
convinced that their prediction is already an established fact.
This people can't build relationships – and we know that relationships are the bedrock of
life
5. Should
We have a list of ironclad rules about how others and we should behave.
People who break the rules make us angry, and we feel guilty when we violate these rules.
A person may often believe they are trying to motivate themselves with 'should' and
'shouldn'ts', as if they have to be punished before they can do anything.
For example, “I really should exercise. I shouldn't be so lazy.” Musts and oughts are also
offenders. The emotional consequence is guilt. When a person directs should
statements toward others, they often feel anger, frustration and resentment.
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Chapter 4
DO: Hack and Harness You 2
How to Work with Yourself and Achieve More
Introduction –
If you have been reading this book chapter by chapter, it means that you have made your
declarations and possibly chanted them and you have written your BHAG, then you
should already be experiencing a shift in your identity.
Having realised the strong link between the soul and the brain and that there could be short
a short circuiting of ideas and other insights from the realm of the soul, we have also put
the brain in other so that you will not be cheated by cognitive distortions that hinders
people from great productivity.
The next thing we want to deal with in this chapter in this second block is to look at how
you can effectively work with yourself and achieve more. Let's get started.
Curtain-raiser –
Let us raise the curtain by having a pip into the Subconscious
Your body and your mind [conscious + subconscious] are the tools you use to get things
done.
Learning how to work effectively with yourself makes accomplishing what you set out to
achieve easier and more enjoyable.
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Photo credit: eocinstitute

Career Quotient Quantification: What Is the State of Your Career?
Measure your Career Quotient
Is your career on-track or off-track? Your Career Quotient measures how well you are
managing your career. Circle your answer for each question and you will be rated...
1. Career Satisfaction: Currently I am -
I. on track with my career,
II. a bit bored and coasting
III. disengaged and needing a new career direction or challenge
2. I wrote a formal Career/Business Plan –
I. in the last 12 months,
II. more than a year ago,
III. never.
3. I completed a formal survey of my professional Skills and personal Values -
I. during the last year,
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II. more than a year ago,

III. never.
4. My Resume/Profile is –
I. 3 months old,
II. 12 months old,

III. more than 1-year-old.
5. I keep an up-to-date Professional Portfolio of my performance, accomplishments,
achievements, and special projects – Yes, No.
6. (a) I have a strong network where I work,
(b) I don't have an internal network.
4. I make –
I. about 2 Networking Contacts weekly,

II. about 1 networking contact weekly,
III. networking contacts only when there's a need,
IV. I don't have time for networking.
8. To keep my career on track, I ask for new projects and tasks –
(a) every 3-6 months,
(b) yearly,
(c) never.
9. Professional Development: Last year, I led a technical or professional organizational
committee, attended 2+ technical meetings, attended a workshop or conference.
(a) 2 or more,
(b) 1 of these,
(c) none of these.
10. Mentoring and Championing: My boss is aware of my career aspirations, I have a
mentor, I have champions within my organization who support my career development –
1. a) all of these,
2. b) 2 of these,
3. c) 1 of these,
4. d) none of these
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Intuition
intuitions are tweets from the universe to the soul -- John-Mabun
What is Intuition
“Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.” -- Anthony J.
D'Angelo
Intuition is:
· spontaneous, direct knowing
· appropriate guidance
· accessed through love
· non-rational and often obscure, symbolic, nonverbal, faint and unexpected
· filtered through the subconscious
· connected to the soul.
[you have to know how you process, so you won't be missing your tweets – Visual | Audio
| Kinesthetics]
Big warning!!!
The exercise you are about to do on intuition can only be done once.
So, make up your mind before starting to answer the questions spontaneously, don't think
too much, don't change what comes to your mind after rationalising, just write it and let it
be.
This is the only way you can get the best of the exercise. Don't read through before
coming back to answer, answer as you read, don't be disturbed by your response.
Just keep answering and keep moving – enjoy yourself.
This exercise by Diane May is a master piece for me, the exercise will really show you
your nature, I was thrilled when I did the exercise.
Intuition Exercise Worksheet – Self
Centre and give yourself your full attention. Without talking, simply notice how you feel
being with yourself. Being receptive, allow yourself to be aware.
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With eyes either opened or closed, notice what images come to mind when you are given
the following suggestions and write them on your paper.
If nothing comes to mind, simply guess and go with your first thought. Just notice the
answer and allow whatever comes to be okay
1. If you were:
a. A plant _____________________________________________________
b. An animal ___________________________________________________
c. A landscape _________________________________________________
d. A body of water ______________________________________________
--how deep __________________________________________________
--how clear __________________________________________________
- how much movement ________________________________________
e. A light ______________________________________________________
--what colour ________________________________________________
--what intensity ______________________________________________
--other qualities _____________________________________________
f. A type of music ______________________________________________
g. A tool ______________________________________________________
h. A food ______________________________________________________
Putting everything together, what do you make out of yourself? Now relate that 'nature' to
your career success
Intuition blocks
If you notice you are not intuitive, you can check through the following list and I am sure
you will find many of the things that are blocking you from been intuitive.
All you have to do is identify them and change those habits, and your intuition will start
coming in bit by bit, trust the little that comes and more will follow as you believe in the
ones that come.
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The list is not all inclusive but comprehensive -

· Addictions
· Fatigue
· Drug Use
· Stress
· Chaos, Disorganization
· External Influences
· Fears (Of Responsibility, The Unknown, Success, Failure, Etc.)
· Anger
· Depression
· Being Reactive
· Attachments
· Rigid Beliefs
· Moods
· Desires
· No Direction, Goals or Focus
· Consistent Thinking
· Control, Attachment to Results, Expectations
· Negative Self Talk, E.g. I'm Not Creative
· Judgment, "Should"
· Rules
· Low Self Worth
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· No Quiet Reflective Time

· No Purpose
Strategies and Techniques for getting you to action when you lack energy and drive –
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· Priming
· Externalisation
· Counterfactual Simulation
Let us examine them:
Priming
Priming is being Specific – John-Mabun
Before you decided you were interested in something, you brain filtered those things out of
your awareness.
Once you become interested, your brain stopped filtering out that information and you
start noticing every time that particular thing.
In a sense, you programmed your brain to notice certain things about the environment
around you and not to notice some based on your perceived need.
All it took is to become interested in something specific to remove the filter.
Priming is a method of consciously programming your brain to alert you when particular
information is present in your environment.
Tell your mind what you specifically want to find - and it will alert you whenever your
senses notice it.
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You can also prime the brain by sending a question that is specific and focused – for
example, how can I submit my deliverables on Tuesdays by 4:30pm and your
subconscious goes to work.
One of the fascinating ramifications of our brain's pattern matching function is that we are
constantly scanning the environment for useful information.
You can use this method to achieve almost anything you desire.
If you want to be promoted, all you have to do is get conscious of that office you want to
be promoted into and ask questions like, what does it entail to get promoted there, what
will I be doing in that office, what kind of life style should I adopt now and soon, you will
begin to see and notice things you are not aware of before that will be of help in achieving
your desire.
Externalization
Externalisation is using your cloud storage – John-Mabun
One of the quirks about how your mind works is that it handles information from outside
your head better than the thoughts that are rattling around inside your head
Since we respond more easily to stimuli in our environment than our own internal
thoughts, there is a simple method we can use to improve our productivity
we can convert our internal thought into an external form our minds can use more
effectively
Do the following always -
· Regularly write your thoughts and try to arrange it into a plan.
· Say out what task you are trying to solve
· Ask to speak to a colleague for 10minutes
You will be surprised how these techniques work, for example when I am stuck and I
decided to talk to my wife, I just realise that while talking about the whole confusing
situations, ideas start coming.
That is why I describe this technique as using your cloud storage, you know when you
phone says memory full and you decide to shift some information into external storage
devise and the phone start functioning well again, that for me is the way externalisation
works.
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I also take advantage of the writing approach a lot as well, I realise that I almost always
get a clearer pattern to my thought when I put things on paper, most of the models I have
created that are useful for solving problems for me and my clients where created after
writing thing down.
Counterfactual Simulation
Counterfactual Simulation is Mental prophecy – John-Mabun
Our minds are constantly trying to predict the future through mental simulations.
Counterfactual – 'what if' questions allows you to directly access your brain's simulation
capabilities.
How simulation works
You can think of counterfactual simulation as applied imagination – you are consciously
posing a 'what if' or 'what would happen if' question to your mind then sitting back and
letting your brain [the subconscious] do what it does best.
Based on the Pattern | Association and Interpretation [P.A.I] you have stored in memory –
concerning your career; your brain will produce what it believes to be the most likely
result.
All you have to do is suspend judgement [at the conscious level], pose the question and
wait for the answer [from the subconscious].
Counterfactual stimulation can help you discover hidden opportunities you may have
previously assumed weren't possible in your career.
When you run a counterfactual simulation, you assume the event or end state you are
simulating is already true, by supplying your mind with artificial destination, it will
automatically start to fill in the blanks between point A and point B. For instance –
What will happen when I become the head of treasury?
As you run the simulations, other questions will automatically present themselves, as these
questions come, answer them as best as you can and write your answers down, by the time
you are through, you would have started seeing possibilities
So, do you have any questions coming to you now... try and answer them
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After doing a simulation, you will always come away with a greater understanding of
what it takes to make progress consistently in your career
Take away:
Pose 'what if' questions regularly and forget them
Consciously Prime: it determines your P | A | I
Thinking is making a prediction based on available information [memories]... since the
subconscious have more memories [information], therefore, the subconscious is a better
thinker than the conscious.
The conscious only have information, but the subconscious will check patterns,
associations and interpretations during the thought process.
Think about your career at the subconscious level... please.
Great thinkers are so because they engage the subconscious...
Knowing that the subconscious have a greater reservoir of information than the
conscious,
wisdom therefore, is your ability to use the subconscious regularly
To engage the subconsciously in your regular decision-making process or thought
process...
start by 'sleeping over' stuff, don't judge any situation immediately, no matter how
obvious they could be.
If you must respond immediately, use empathy, use love, ask questions before you speak.
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1. Establish Your Purpose or Direction

The purpose of any development activity needs to be identified. Why are you doing it?
Establish Purpose – Self Hacking Starts
Let us determine your own purpose in what you do, with the following exercise –
I am going to establish your purpose through the following exercise by checking your
mindset in three major areas as far as your career/business is concerned.
At the end of the workday, jot down approximately how much time you spend in each of
the three following mind-sets:
How to Determine Purpose Exercise –
Your career or business ___________
1. Job mind-set. pay check mentality
Rate yourself on scale 1 – 10
If in your present job, you know you are salary driven, rate yourself high, to yourself be
true. If not rate yourself low.
2. Career mind-set. title | power | sphere of control
If in your current job, you are promotion minded, rate yourself high and also check your
reason, is it just for the power and control, or for effectiveness, again to yourself be true.
3. Purpose mind-set. passion | innovation | commitment
If in your current job, you are purpose driven, this job is more like your life, not because
of the salary, but because it gives you room to express yourself, go ahead and do the
rating, again to yourself be true.
If the job and career mind-sets total more than 50% of your time, that may be a warning
sign that you need to re-evaluate or redefine your personal purpose.
No one lives in the purpose mind-set all the time, but spending too much time in the career
or job mind-sets is destructive
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How to Build Purpose into Your Life/Career/Business –

3 methods
Method 1.
Job/Assignment/Business Crafting Technique.
Method 1 comes in three parts, but seeing improvements in any one will help with
improving your enjoyment and sense of purpose at work.
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Goal Setting
Chapter 5
Career and Business Crafting: Gain the leading edge

Introduction –
This is the last chapter in this block that is about you, the goal setter. What I am going to
be doing here is to align you and your career, business or calling.
This help you to gain further insight into yourself as you begin to reason out why you do
the business or the job you do. It is important we do this because our lives should be lived
as one block. Many set career goals independent of other areas of life and wonder why at
the end of the day the goals are not achieved.
The first thing we will do is to align your purpose with career/business and once that is
achieved, we will identify development needs based on the alignment.
We will now formulate action plan based on discoveries from the alignment process and
finally, we will develop and use reflective practise to stay on course
Let us begin:
Answer the following questions as we start –
What do you do for a living [career/business]? _________________
How will you rate yourslf in the following areas of life ranging from 1 to 10? 1 been the
lowest.
· Career/business _____________ [1 – 10]
· Family _____________ [1 – 10]
· Networking skills _____________ [1 – 10]

In one year from now, where will you be or do you see yourself, what kind of
improvement would you have had?
· Career/business ______________ [1 – 10]
· Family ______________ [1 – 10]
· Networking skills ______________ [1 – 10]
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Task crafting:
This is the process of picking up or dropping particular tasks to adjust the day-to-day of
your role.
This could mean taking on a task that forces you to learn a new skill or engage with people
you wouldn't normally get to.
State the task you will craft__________________________
Relational crafting:
This is the process of purposely creating or deepening relationships. For instance, you
might
take some time to meet new people through volunteering. What will you
do______________________________
Cognitive crafting:
This is essentially changing the way you think about your job/business/life.
A simple cognitive shift in the way you think about what you do and why it's important is
an easy way to imbue your existing role with more meaning and purpose.
My job/career/business is about _________________________ but now I choose to see it
as_____________________________
Method 2:
Tap into a Higher Corporate Meaning
In order to motivate yourself during those tedious and uninteresting tasks, just tap into a
higher meaning. Look into the community
Reflect on how the value of what you do is contributing to the world.
Many businesses these days have explicit goals not just for maximizing profit, but also for
the triple bottom line impact: social, environmental, and financial.
Method 3:
Give Yourself a New Work Title
Think creatively when reframing your work.
My new work title or name is __________________________
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Purpose Crafting -
I read the memo of a young man on his status, how he crafted his purpose and it goes thus
–
'My name is Oluwafemi Ogunsanya, I wanted to be a doctor. I save brands now instead of
lives'
The following is an example of how an engineer in one of our trainings crafted his work
purpose to have more energy and focus:
Purpose Crafted: __engineering___
My job/career/business is about _____building__________ but now I choose to see it as
_______ uniting families____________
I reflect on how the value of what I do is contributing to the world and My new work title
or name is ______care giving _______
2. Identify Development Needs
There are 3 stages to identifying your needs – in relation to what you do or want to do
Stage 1
Topic/New title or name ___________
Identify what skills, knowledge and behaviours are 'required' for you to do your job well
[as a care-giver on engineering platform]
Required –
Skill
Knowledge Behaviours
Stage 2
Look at the skills, knowledge and behaviours you actually have now Actual –
Skill
Knowledge Behaviours5
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Stage 3
Compare 'actual' with 'required' to identify the gaps. These are your development needs
Compare [actual and required]
Skill
Knowledge Behaviours
3. Formulating Action Plan
Evaluate and Review
Developing and Using Reflective Practice
Reflective Practice
We want to develop the critical, constructive and creative thinking that is necessary for
reflective practice?
Neil Thompson suggests these six steps: See–
be about and around the topics you are learning about, read, research and study, follow
global trends
Ask–
others about the way they do things and why
Listen –
be sensitive to both internal and external environment, listen with all your senses
Emotions –
pay attention to your emotions, what prompts them, and how you deal with negative ones
Imagine –
meditate and check how much of your time given to it, share your views and experiences
with others in your industry Talk–
speak about it at every opportunity What do I want/need to learn What will I do to achieve
this? What resources or support will I need? What will my success criteria be? Targets
dates for review and completion. How have I chosen these dates
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Chapter 6
Why People don't Achieve their Goals
92% of people don't achieve their goals – University of Scranton
Introduction
Thus far, we have dealt with the goal, psychology and neuroscience, by checking reasons,
values, alignment with the realities of life, rules, process, the role and impact of goal
setting on the brain and so on in block 1 and chapter one of this book.
In block 2, chapter 2 to chapter 5, we took our time to look at you the goal setter, four
chapters were dedicated to you the goal setter because, I believe that when the man is
right, every other thing will be right
We made declarations, wrote BHAG, check your values and from there to chapter three
where we dealt with mental strength and some cognitive distortions which weighs in
heavily in goal setting.
Then on to chapter 4 and we examined how to work with yourself, maximizing the brain
power and finally in chapter 5, we did some crafting, career crafting, job crafting and
relationship crafting.
You will agree with that so much was done on getting the goal setter right.
In this chapter therefore, we will be looking at some specific reasons why people don't
achieve goals, if you are ready, let us go having sorted you out in the last block.
Goals and motivations
Most meaningful goals require hard work over months or even years. But despite people's
best intentions, they often struggle with achieving goals because they fail to maintain
motivation over the long haul.
So how do you stay motivated, especially when your goals are big and you are likely to
encounter setbacks along the way?
I will be considering a theory that is put forward by a school of thought. I especially love
the theory because it puts into consideration two factors that are crucial in goal setting,
which are trust and believe, if I value [trust] a thing, it will stir my believe in it and once I
believe in it, I will be motivated to go through whatever it takes to achieve.
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People unconsciously give up on their goals mainly because of the absence of these two
factors, if these factors are in place, when things go wrong and goals are not achieve, I will
be ready to find out what went, what didn't I do right, but in the absence of these factors, I
have no reason to go through the stress of finding out anything.
The theory is called the Expectancy theory -
Expectancy theory – states that motivation is a product of two things:
I. how much you value your goal and
II. how much you believe you can achieve your goal.
It's a formula for achieving goals.
According to the formula, a failure to achieve goals results from a failure in one or both
parts of motivation.
Long-term goals are particularly susceptible to failure because people often undervalue the
goals' benefit and underestimate their own ability to achieve them.
This occurs because:
You fail to clearly evaluate your goal at the start, and the positive gains in reaching the
goal do not accrue for a long time (leading to the slow drop in goal value) and
It is hard to see evidence that today's small actions matter to something so abstract and far
away, especially when encountering setbacks along the way (leading to the slow drop in
goal belief).
As a solution to this problem, the following framework will get you to focus on the goal-
setting process of motivation so that you can stay the course on the work ambitions that
are important for you.
So, what can you do to ensure you increase the value you have for your goals and then
they believe in the goal?
There are two things you can do according to the school of thought to increase the value
of your goal –
I. Set clear goal definitions
II. Practice future – focused thinking
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Also, there are two things you can do to increase your believe in the goal – I. Build in
regular, trackable measures of your progress
II. Build buffers against inevitable challenges and failures Let's break this down –
here this structure comes in to goal setting and believe me, it will add value to you.
How to increase the value of your goal -
Step 1:
Set clear goal definitions
many people set great goals, goals like I will lose 30kg in 2weeks. I will start my own
business next year. I will make so and so amount of money by so and so time.
They write these great goals, stick it somewhere, look at it regularly and that is all, so
somewhere down the line, these goals become a mockery, a joke and a source of
depression.
The question now is what makes a goal clear, relevant and supportive. The well worn-out
strategy that have become a cliché comes in handy, make the goal SMART.
Yes you want to be that thing by so and so period, but then you have to make what you do
now to be relevant in the achievement of the goal and that is w
This is how it works –
Specific –
Clearly define your goal. Who, what, where, and how? Be detailed.
The brain loves specifics, when you specific, your brain now realises what is important to
you and the filtering process starts help you by you seeing relevant things to the goal set.
Measurable –
Establish how you will evaluate whether you have reached your goal. What will you
assess and how will you quantify it? Include numbers. Set mile stones, so that you can
celebrate mini achievements, this tells you that you are progressing, no matter how small.
Goals don't add value when there is no progress, but where there is progress, the value
increases
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Attainable –
Ensure your goal is challenging but realistic. Ensure it is in your control, don't set goals
that depend on people you have no access to or influence over, you will be asking for luck,
goals should depend on you not chances or luck.
The value of a goal increases the more involved you are and you are not isolated and
having fate that it will work out in your favour somehow.
Relevant –
Ensure this goal serves your overarching ambition. Why did you choose this goal? Does it
serve your values and ultimate aspiration(s)? it should be relevant to you and what you do.
Timed –
Set a clear schedule with deadlines. Include specific dates.
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Step 2:
Practice future-forward thinking
Even with SMART goals, people still lose motivation over time. This happens in part
because a psychological tendency called “delay discounting” warps our ability to properly
value benefits that occur in the future.
Delay discounting describes how rewards decrease in value the farther they occur in the
future. Many people, for example, prefer $10 today over $15 next month.
How can you increase the value of your long-term goals and reduce delay discounting?
Growing evidence suggests one effective way is to engage in what psychologist call
“episodic future thinking.”
Episodic future thinking –
Describes imagining yourself in future experiences. Imagine that it is next spring, and you
are lounging on a beach with the breeze in your hair and the sun in your face. This is an
episodic future thought (and quite a lovely one at that).
To reduce delay discounting as much as possible (and bring more value to your long-term
goals), make sure the future experiences that you imagine are related to your goal.
· Will achieving your goal potentially lead to this experience?
· Were you able to take the beach vacation in part because you reached your goal?
Would imagining something else be more related—perhaps that you successfully
developed a cool new product, got a raise, or moved up the ranks within your company?
Put the following into consideration, make sure the episodic practise is [P.E.R.V] –
Positive.
Is the experience enjoyable?
Do you actually like going to the beach?
Exciting.
Does imagining the experience energize you?
Is a beach vacation something you would find fun and invigorating?
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Realistic.
Is this something that feasibly could happen?
Perhaps you would like to win the Nobel Prize too, but what is the chance you could make
that happen?
Vivid.
Does it include specific details?
What is the time and setting?
What do you feel, smell, and see?
How does the sand feel on your toes, do you hear the crashing of the waves?
How to Increase Your Believe in Your Goal - Step 3:
Track your progress
Creating and rewarding sub goals to track your progress can help you recognize the
evidence that you're achieving goals even though it may not feel like it.
Create Sub goals
Sub goals make your rewards more immediate and your evidence for goal success more
obvious.
When creating your sub goals:
Work backwards from the big-picture long-term goals down to the weekly goals.
This is sometimes called reverse planning, and it has been shown to boost motivation and
productivity.
Sub goals are not about outcomes, but instead about developing helpful behaviours.
With repetition, they can turn into habits that keep you on track even when your willpower
is low.
Create a visual representation of your goals.
Something that highlights what you have achieved and how you are moving in time
towards
your bigger goals.
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Reward yourself for each sub goal

Some reward comes intrinsically from achieving your goals – it just feels good to do
them. But to boost the incentive and highlight evidence of your accomplishments, it helps
to also include explicit rewards.
Importantly, ensure your rewards are relatively quick and reliable. If you're the kind of
person who is bad at following through on rewards for yourself, consider:
Step 4:
Building buffers against failure.
So how do highly successful people deal with the dejection, anxiety, and frustration
without losing confidence in achieving goals? One solution is developing an action
orientation. Action orientation refers to the ability to disengage from one's negative or
harmful emotions and to foster the emotions necessary for effective goal pursuit.
There are two ways you can cultivate an action orientation.
Commit to achieving your goals and getting things done
People are more likely to adopt a state orientation rather than action orientation when they
are unsure of their goals and how to achieve them – that is, when people have a “deficient
intent.” The good news is that if you have done the previous steps of creating SMART
goals, you've already started to tackle this issue.
Thus, one solution to shift from state to action orientation is to commit to your goals and
sub goals.
Change your environment.
For example, if colleagues or email constantly distract you, could you move to a quiet
place or set up an email blocker during certain times?
Schedule worry time. Can you set aside specific, limited time to worry about or tweak
goals, to limit how much such thoughts are always over your head? When negative
thoughts do arise, practice telling yourself “this serves no useful purpose right now” and
return to your current task.
Remember, the purpose is to stop constantly evaluating your goals, to stop allowing other
people or circumstances to always come before them, and to just pursue them.
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THE LAWS OF GOAL
SETTING
BLOCK
THREE
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Goal
ChaptersSetting
7-9
THE LAWS OF GOAL SETTING.

In the first block, we looked at the goal itself, psychology, neuroscience and processes.
In the second block we considered you, the goal setter, where we hacked and harnessed
you, made declarations, wrote BHAG, checked mental strength, cognitive distortions, how
to boost the brain, did an alignment with career and so on.
After this block, there was a bridge where we considered why people don't achieve their
goals.
We are now here, block 3 and in this first chapter of block 3 which is the seventh chapter
of the book, we will be looking at the laws of goal setting.
In chapter 8, we will consider exercises and games that will keep us engaged through the
entire goal achieving process and finally in chapter 9 we will look at the tools and models
for setting and achieving your goals.
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Chapter 7
Goal setting laws – don't break them

Introduction –
Anyone can set a goal. Only the wisest get their goals. – Jeff Herring
We are looking at the laws of goal setting because many people simply don't achieve their
goals because they broke some laws.
We will be guided both consciously and unconsciously when we have these laws at the
back of our minds when setting or executing them.
One thing that is constant about laws is that, whether you know the laws or not, once you
break them, you will suffer the repercussion and if you obey them, they will support you.
So, we will take our time in this chapter to consider few.
Please not that all the laws we will be considering here are from personal experience
journaled over the years and summarised under the general laws of the universe.
Let us go get them –
The Law of Ownership
Don't ever set goals that depend on external factors such as friends, laws of the nation,
climatic conditions.
The people, situations or places that your goal depend on can change and that is automatic
failure for you. Your goal should be in your control or at the least under your strong
influence.
The Law of Subconscious
We are constantly under a great barrage of stimuli from our immediate environment,
friends, family, associate, neighbours and so on. So, to set a goal that will pull you, you
have to ensure that the goal is from your true self [your core] and not from your acquired
mind.
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The Law of Work

Nothing can replace work in the execution of your goal. Be ready to work.
Joyfully engage in whatever task necessary, having at the back of your mind that you are
on a journey to a new you and guess what, its work that will assist you in achieving that.
Reset your thinking that work is an associate in progress and before you know it, work
will transmute to fun believe me, I have experienced and still experiencing it.
The Law of Steadfastness
Don't change your goal even when it seems it's not working or you are not achieving your
target, stick to it, you are only permitted to change or tweak your strategies, but don't
change the goal.
A goal is your compass in this journey, and I guess that a treasure hunter doesn't change
compass. I first learnt this from Brian Tracy and I now know it experientially. You can
keep tweaking your strategy but don't change the goal.
The Law of Visualisation
It is difficult to have what you can't see in your mind before it happens. So, you have to
constantly use your imagination alongside your work until your goal is achieved.
Create your vision board, check the internet you will see a lot about how to create a vision
board, it is a great tool in anchoring yourself till the manifestation of your goal.
The Law of Faith
What you lack confidence in can't work for you. You will have to have strong belief in
yourself that you can and will achieve your goal. Faith brings congruence, if you are not
living in congruence with your goal, you can't achieve it.
One thing I have realise about goals, goal setting and goal achievements is that you can't
test if a goal will work, you can't experiment with a goal. You either go for a goal or you
are not.
A goal is not a theory to be proven right or wrong, a goal is a life to be lived.
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The Law of Leadership

You must be ready to take responsibility for the goals set, there is no genie that helps
anybody to achieve their goals. Be ready to follow routines, knowing that no one is
supervising you.
Lead yourself in the direction that your goal is leading you. You are only permitted to
leave the leadership of your life to your goal.
The Law of Value
Unknowingly to many people, a goal will always change your value system.
Since a goal is an achievement of a new thing, a goal will necessarily take you through a
new route and a new route will demand new values.
So, you will have to be ready to change your values or at the least adjust your values.
Everything we do is powered by our values. If your goal is anything to go by, then you
must expect it to affect your power source.
Fresh zeal, drive and insight that are needed to shoot you ahead in your journey of goal
achievement comes from your values and believe system.
As your goals change or upgrade your values, you will find yourself enjoying the journey
all the more and you will be seeing vivid transformation of your life.
The Law of Flow
You must be ready to go with the direction of the goal and the 'demands' of the goal. If this
contradicts your old lifestyle, you will have to surrender and then go on.
This is called the flow. Our goal will ultimately bring us to this state as we allow and let.
One of the hall marks of goal achievement is when we find our self in this state of bliss
and splendour. Where it seems that everything is just the way we are and we are the way
everything is.
Like a fish enjoying the law of buoyancy without the fish even knowing that the law exists
and yet obeying the law even by her very design, structure and habits, this is what goals,
our goals will lead us to, in flow.
The Law of Intensity
You must refuse to give up, you must be resolute and determined to follow despite the pain
and the challenges.
Distractions can't be defined in general terms for people.
w as if you are looking for this progress, and we sure see what we are looking for.
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But when you intensify your focus on the goal, one thing that will start happening is that
you will begin to identify your own distractions in all its shapes and forms.
You will also apart from identifying distractions, you will realise where you are not
cooperative with your own goal, you will see where you are self-sabotaging that no one
can identify for you.
Goals are peculiar to the goal setter.
This is what I mean – A and B can set same goal, but as they set out to achieve the goal,
the demands from the goal will start to differ for them simply because their values are
different. So, setting the same goal setting rules for them is a great recipe for failure.
Absolute concentration on your goal and yourself is what this law is about.
The Law of Progress
Acknowledging, celebrating and announcing every little progress adds a degree of
unquantifiable energy to your soul.
People get stressed out because they can't see any changes in what they are doing, but the
truth is that they have not taught or trained themselves how to identify small, seemingly
intangible progress.
The only way that people can be trained to identify or notice changes is to celebrate tiny
changes when noticed.
Whatever we concentrate on grows, as you do this on a regular basis, the changes grow
because you are concentrating on them. It is no
The Law of Engagement
Following the flow leads to new ideas and new level and you keep adjusting and engaging
yourself.
When you are driving, you are naturally guided by the driving rules, you know the road
signs, you will observe your side mirrors, your rear mirror and so on, you will know when
to stop other conversations and concentrate absolutely, this is what is called engagement.
Same goes for your goals and achieving them, you will have to know the rules intuitively
and follow them.
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There will be accident for a driver that don't engage in the driving rules, so also there will
be goals disaster for the goal setter who refuses to engage.
The Law of Alignment
Allow the flow created by the goal to take over you and all you do. This bonds you
perfectly
with the goal until you become your goal.
I will use the analogy of Jesus Christ here. There was a time that the people asked Him
about His father [God], and His response was that, have you seen me and you are still
asking for the father and He told them that I and my father are one. He went ahead to say
that the father works and He works.
Here we have a perfect example of alignment, in other words, Jesus is saying that I can't
do a thing without the father. I am in Him and He is in me and we are one in complete
alignment.
If there is still a degree of separation or distance between you and your goal, it doesn't
matter how small, you can enjoy the complete 'dividends' of the goal.
If you have any reason to complain or get frustrated in any way, no matter how small
about your goals, this is pointing to a loop hole somewhere in your alignment.
This law guides me strongly, I have made it an iron clad law of goal getting for myself.
The law of Positive Scripting
Always ensure you write your goals in the positive. This provides better motivation and
more
forward looking.
If you decide to go to point B from point A. you will not write down all the thing you
won't do, you will write down all the things that you will do.
If you write down all the things you won't do, your brain will only have records of those
things and once you set out, your brain will scan for all those things you wrote down and
figure out by the principle of counterfactual simulation how to achieve all the thing you
wrote down, and unfortunately, they are the thing you want to avoid
forward looking.
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If you decide to go to point B from point A. you will not write down all the thing you
won't do, you will write down all the things that you will do.
If you write down all the things you won't do, your brain will only have records of those
things and once you set out, your brain will scan for all those things you wrote down and
figure out by the principle of counterfactual simulation how to achieve all the thing you
wrote down, and unfortunately, they are the thing you want to avoid.
So, this law says that you should write what you want and your brain will filter out what
you don't want and bring about what you want.
Stop frustrating your life and your goa by wrong scripting.
No film director or producer or script writer will give the actor a script of what he should
not say and do on the set, that will be a monumental waste of resources and catastrophic
destruction of a movie.
There you have them, like I said at the beginning of the chapter, let them guide you both
consciously and unconsciously.
When you uphold them, they will uphold your results, if you violate them, you will have
challenges.
Whatever problem you may be having now in achieving your goals, run through these
laws and see which of them you are probably violating now.
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Goal
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8
Goal Setting Exercises
Introduction –
All the brain boosting activities that we learnt in chapter 4 will be greatly put into practice
by these exercises, please do them, even if you have come across them before, now is the
time to actually DO THEM.
All the stuff about priming, counterfactual simulation and externalisation will be
experienced now as you DO these exercises.
The other reason I love exercises and games is that they lighten you up in a relaxed
manner, they take you away from the rigours of reading and conscious thinking and allow
your thought pattern to flow freely.
If you have ever played the game of monopoly, you will understand a whole lot about life
and business while playing, same goes for the game of chess, which teaches you
leadership, politics, decision making and so on.
Games and exercises help build the 'muscles' of the brain, especially the ones relevant to
what you are doing that is related to the game.
So, in this chapter I am going to select some games and exercise that I particular love and
know that yield results in the player.
How Goal Setting Exercises Work
According to the research work done Locke (1964) it seems for goal setting exercises to
work they need two key things:
I. To be small, achievable and measurable over time
II. Set specific and clear outcomes
And according to another researcher Miner (2005) the following are three core principles
for how goal setting works.
Goals motivate individuals to:
I. put in the required effort to set tasks
II. keep persisting in the required behaviours or activities over time
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III. stay focused on the goals and tasks they are trying to achieve, rather than becoming
distracted by irrelevant behaviours
Goal Setting Exercises
King (2001) asked students to write about a traumatic experience, their best future self,
both topics or a non-emotional control topic for twenty minutes a day, across four days.
The student's mood was measured before and after writing and followed up three weeks
after the initial test. King found that writing about life goals – or best possible future self –
was associated with a significant increase in feelings of well-being compared to writing
about trauma.
What this tells us is that writing about positive, self-regulatory topics – such as what we
want our future to look like – can be hugely beneficial for our well-being. It can also be
hugely beneficial in helping us achieve our goals.
Goal Setting Writing Exercises:
The 'Average Perfect Day' Exercise
You can do this exercise in a journal, blank notebook or on your computer, and as the title
suggests it's pretty straight forward – you write about what your average perfect day looks
like.
Focus on what your perfect day looks like without any added extras or surprises (so no
winning lottery tickets or surprise romantic getaways). The idea here is to create a detailed
list of what an average day looks like, step by step. This could include:
The perfect time for waking up and what that looks like – do you read for 20 minutes
before getting up? Cuddle with your partner? Do a sun salutation or mindfulness to start
the day?
What do you do once you're out of bed? Do you make coffee and breakfast first, or shower
first? Do you pick out your outfit for the day or did you do that the night before? Is there
music, the radio, morning TV in the background? Are the curtains or window blinds open
fully or do you prefer them closed while you get ready?
What happens next? Do you go to work – what does that look like? Whom do you engage
with? What does your desk look like?
Are you at home with the kids? What do you get up to? What activities or adventures do
you do together?
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What does a nutritious lunch look like and include? And so on.
Create a day you will never get bored of, that you could happily repeat five or seven days a
week.
Create an 'Average Perfect Day' for your work day and your downtime days. With or
without your partner or kids. Really think about the individual behaviours that go into that
day. What you'll begin to see clearly are little habits you can start actioning straight away
to get you closer to your idea of a perfectly average day.
The 'One Year from Now' Exercise
Similar to King's exercise of asking students to think about and write down what their best
possible future self might look like, you can adapt this to think about what your best
possible life might look like one year from now.
You can do this exercise alone, with a partner, family or a close friend. It can be really
rewarding to share your ideas with someone you trust, who will also challenge you to
consider things outside of your comfort zone. Some of the key areas to think about when
completing this exercise include:
Your Work – What job will you be doing? Where will you be working? How will you be
working towards what you want this to look like?
Your Home – Are you hoping to save up to buy a place? Are there some home
improvements in your current place you've been putting off? Does the garden need some
TLC?
Your Finances – Do you have some debts you want to pay off, once and for all? Are you
saving for something in particular? Do you want to get on top of your retirement plans?
Your Relationships – Are you happy in love? Wanting to get married? How much value do
your close friendships bring? Do you need to work more on connecting with people?
Yourself – How do you want to feel about yourself one year from now? Mentally,
physically, socially, personally? What does that look and feel like?
Once you've created what one year from now looks like for you, start thinking about the
steps required to achieve those things. Be reasonable and don't try and commit to
achieving everything at once. Pick one or two achievable and measurable goals for each
area and build a goal setting plan for each. Include a rough timeline of when you'd like to
achieve that by so you can keep yourself accountable.
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Again, you can write this down on good old-fashioned paper, in a journal, or use a
computer – whatever works best for you. Make sure it's written up somewhere you can
refer back to it and add to if needed.
The 'Treasure Mapping' Exercise
The Treasure Mapping exercise begins with some basic visualization techniques and takes
it
one step further.
Visualization is a wonderful tool to help you build a picture of what you want certain
aspects of your life to look like. When it comes to goal setting, visualization can become
tricky as it takes time to concentrate and re-visualize what you're working towards when
you need a quick boost of inspiration and motivation. Visualization is a strong tool and the
Treasure
Mapping exercise can help to take it to a new level!
With Treasure Mapping, you create a physical representation of your visualization. You
can do this with a drawing, painting, collage, or digital art. It serves as a manifestation of
your goals and intensifies the work you put into visualizing them in your mind.
A few tips on getting started:
First, clarify the goal you want to work towards. Visualize what this looks and feels like. Is
it a personal achievement or more tangible, like running a marathon or paying off your
debt?
Now, write it all down in detail, using visualization as you go to build a clear picture.
Think about the outcome of achieving your goal: What will you have? What will you be?
How do you celebrate? What do your friends and family say?
Once you have written this all down, it's time to get creative! Grab your art supplies, a
stack of magazines or whatever else you want to use to create your treasure map. At the
top of your map create the visual representation of what achieving your goal looks like –
this is the treasure you're working towards.
Now start thinking about all the steps required from where you are at now, to achieving
that ultimate goal. Begin the above process again for each step you can identify and work
backward from your ultimate goal, creating a visual manifestation on your map as you go.
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Align your images – drawings or collage – in a way that you can see how they connect.
This will help imprint in your mind how you are going to achieve them.
Once finished, place your treasure map in a place where you can see it easily for a regular
hit of motivation and inspiration. If you created in using some digital art software, print it
or keep it as your background screensaver so you see it daily.
These exercises are just a starting point. Some might work better than others for you, so
it's worth trying a few and getting a feel for what you respond to the most.
Goal Setting Activities
The Winning Lottery Ticket Activity
This activity is great for giving the mind free reign to think about what you would do if
you had no financial constraints. It can be really telling to see what you come up with –
most of which can be quite achievable if you start putting in the effort and setting some
goals!
The premise is easy: You've just won the lottery! The winning amount is $30 million.
· What is your first reaction?
· What do you do next?
· What are some of your key priorities to use the money wisely?
· What about savings?
· Whom do you help out?
You can write this down, visualize it, or discuss it openly if you're doing the exercise with
a partner, family or group. Once you've done this, restart the exercise, only this time
you've won half the original amount – $15 million.
Think about what changes you'd make to your original plans (if any). Keep restarting the
exercise, each time halving the winning amount. You'll notice that you start to drill down
to your core values and these can inform the goals you need to focus on
The Retirement Party Activity
This activity flips the lottery ticket activity on its head a little bit. Instead of visualizing
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you would do, you think about what you would regret not doing.
Visualize the following scenario: Fast forward a few years or so to your own retirement
party. You've worked hard, held down a steady job and now it's time to enjoy some free
time. You've invited all of your close friends, colleagues, and family. You give a speech
about all the things you've enjoyed in life and then someone asks: What do you regret not
doing?
Look back over your life and think about the things you wished you had done but didn't.
Perhaps work got busy so some personal travel goals got pushed to the side. Or maybe you
never ended up going back to school to study that degree in creative writing you wanted
to. Based on how your life is heading right now, you'll probably have a good idea of what
these regrets might look like.
Now take each regret and rewrite as a positive. You've just created a list of goals to work
towards.
The Six Months Left Activity
While the title of this activity might sound a little morbid, it's still worth trying! When you
think about it, knowing you only have six months left to live can be a freeing feeling:
there's no reason not to go after the things you really want in life and try to make them
happen as much as you can. The very worst thing that could happen to you has already
happened so what do you have to lose?
What will you do with this new found courage?
Questions to think about could include:
· Where do you want to spend your time?
· Are there any cities on your bucket list you want to visit?
· Whom do you want to spend this time with?
· Are there any old connections you want to reach out to?
· How do you spend this time?
· Relaxing with loved ones or cramming in as much as possible?
The key to this activity is to not spend too long and hard thinking about it. Write down as
much and as quickly as possible the first things and ideas that come to mind. Review and
reflect on these to help you develop some tangible goals.
ipant an attempt at beating their time goal, until you have an overall winner.
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All of these activities focus on helping you to get at the core of what your potential goals
could be. It's worth trying a few different activities and seeing what results you get, and
especially worth revisiting them over time to see how your ideas change.
Goal Setting Games
The 'Mine Field Goal Obstacles' game
This is a fun game to use for goal setting with students, or if you want to get more active
within your goal setting workshop. It has a focus on communication and trust within a
group setting in achieving the desired goal. It requires a bit of preparation but can be a
rewarding activity.
You will need:
Objects and space to create an obstacle course (be as creative and challenging as you like)
A blindfold
A timer
Pen and paper
How to play:
Step One: You'll need to create an obstacle course. You can do this outside with basic gym
equipment, or inside with office equipment (desks, chairs). The idea is to create a maze or
course with obstacles through which participants will need to navigate.
Step Two: Divide your group into pairs or small groups. Within the group, they must
decide
on how quickly they want to complete the obstacle course. These times can be written up
visually and you can create a little competition by challenging the teams to beat each
other.
Step Three: One participant from each team is blindfolded. With the verbal queues from
their other teammates, they need to try and navigate the obstacle within the time goal they
have set.
Step Four: Allow each partic
Purpose of the game:
While fun, this game allows participants to reflect on the different aspects that go into
achieving a goal. By creating a timeframe, the group should put in the required effort to
achieve this, and use the resources (each other) to do this successfully. Once you've
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finished playing the game, each participant can then reflect on one goal they have and
identify the obstacles that may get in the way and the resources around them to help
support them.
The 'One, Some, Many' goal sharing team game
This is a particularly good activity for a goal-setting workshop, as it allows participants
time to focus on their own goals and come together to discuss group goals. It can help
teams reflect on where there are overlaps in the goals they want to achieve, and how to
work collaboratively on them.
You will need:
Selection of pens/markers
A3 paper and a flip chart board or whiteboard you can write on Post-it notes
How to play:
Step One: Focus on the 'ONE' part of the activity title. Each participant has a selection of
post-it notes and the opportunity to write out their individual goals. Aim for 1-3 goals per
person. These can be small goals or long term, but keep them concise when writing them
down.
Step Two: Focus on the 'SOME' part of the activity title. Participants get into pairs or small
groups of three and share the individual goals they have written down. If there are some
that are the same, they can combine these to make one shared goal. Ask each group to
identify
other overlaps and similarities.
Step Three: Now focus on the 'MANY' parts of the activity title. Using a large piece of
paper or whiteboard, ask each team to come and place their post-it notes on the board. This
activity should take the longest as participants will need to identify other similarities and
overlaps and combine goals. The group can discuss as a whole which goal are the most
common and identify how to work on these collaboratively
Purpose of the game:
This can be a strong team exercise as it demonstrates very clearly and visually how much
everyone can be on the same page. There will be goals that aren't shared and these can be
discussed proactively, but the purpose of the game is to identify common group goals and
devise a way of achieving them together.
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Vision Boards Collage Exercise

This exercise can be a lot of fun, while also encouraging group engagement. Vision
boards
are a great way to create a physical representation of goals and ideas. You will need:
Selection of art materials including pens and pencils
Selection of old magazines, books or newspapers that can be cut up Scissors and glue for
all participants
Paper, cardboard or other material for sticking on
How to play:
Step One: Begin by asking each participant to practice a simple visualization exercise.
Ask them to focus on one goal they would like to achieve and build a visual idea in their
mind of what achieving that goal will look and feel like for them. Focus on the mental
images that come to mind, and any feelings they anticipate on success.
Step Two: With these images in mind, participants can then look through the old
magazines, books or newspapers to collect images, words and visual representations of
what their visualization could look like. They can collect as many images as they like.
Step Three: The fun part! Participants can now start creating their boards. A vision board
is a very personal thing so encourage participants to create something that represents them
and their goal – there is no wrong or right way to do this. The final images they chose
should all make them feel and remember their visualization of their goal.
There needs to be a strong emotional connection to the board to help remind and motivate
them what they're trying to achieve. In the end, each participant can share their board with
the group if they would like to.
Purpose of the exercise:
This exercise is a fun way to build a physical representation of the desired goal. By
starting with a visualization activity, participants can create something they feel connected
to, that will help to motivate them when they need it.
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Goal setting tools and techniques

Introduction –
I saw this awesome quote and I can't resist sharing it here. Can you guess why
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? – Robert Browning
Tools
Goal setting tools and the questions to ask
Next ask yourself –
· When I get what I want, what exactly will that do for me?
· How, in fact, will I know when I have what I want?
These questions may sound a little banal, but they are necessary to concentrate your mind
on
the specifics.
The next question to ask yourself is –
· how will I know when I have achieved my ambition?
So, for example, what signs will you expect to see?
· Will you feel differently?
· Will others act differently towards you?
· Will you possess something that you don't already possess?
Then ask yourself: What will I see, hear and feel when I have achieved my ambition?
The next question is important and worth thinking about carefully:
Do I have control over the outcome and does the outcome involve others?
And then ask yourself: Can I create and maintain the momentum to achieve my goal?
You will also need to ask yourself when you want to achieve your goal, where, how and
with whom.
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Finally, ask yourself these questions:

1. (i) what will happen if I achieve my goal?
2. (ii) what will happen if I don't achieve my goal?
3. (iii) what won't happen if I achieve my goal?
4. (iv) what won't happen if I don't achieve my goal?
Goal setting tools and your timeline
Your mind thus clarified; we may now proceed to the next step.
For the purposes of this technique you will need to establish your timeline. Let us quickly
establish your time line -
There is no right or wrong about this; people envisage their timeline in different ways.
Stand up and permit yourself enough space to step forward, backward and sideways.
Think of yesterday and take a pace in that direction. Then think of last month and take a
pace in that direction. Then last year and take a pace in that direction.
Resume your starting position and then think of tomorrow and take a pace in that
direction. Then next month and take a pace in that direction. Then next year and take a
pace in that direction.
Now you can resume your seat. Some people envisage the past directly behind them or
slightly to an angle, and the future directly to the front or at an angle.
Others see the past to one side or the other and the future directly opposite. Still others
view it differently.
It does not matter. What does matter is where the past is to you and where the future is to
you.
Goal setting tools and achieving your ambition
Now you know that, we can turn to the goal you wish to achieve. What do you really want
to do?
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You have taken some time to established your well-formed outcome and to imagine
yourself achieving your ambition. Now is the time to plan seriously, so read More Goal
Setting Tools before going further
Build on a well-formed outcome
You will be ready for more goal setting tools if you have read Goal setting tools and Goal
setting tips because you will have established a well-formed outcome and will understand
some of the basics.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course
and prescriptive right – Aldous Huxley
Now that you have got this far, remember that there is nothing that can stop you achieving
your dream except quitting. Too many people quit when they are on the brink of success.
It is perfectly natural to have setbacks along the way, but those who succeed keep right on
to the end of the road.
Think about it hard and convince yourself. On a scale of 1-10, how badly do you want to
achieve that ambition.
If you want it really badly you are going to be up around 9 or 10, so using that scale will
help you establish whether you are serious about it in the first place.
Now, imagine that you have achieved your ambition. You have the very thing you desire
so much. Relax. Close your eyes and think about it for a few moments.
Allow your mind to drift down and see what you would expect to see. Make the image you
are holding in your mind bigger, more vivid and brighter, and then double it.
See yourself achieving the objective. Hear the sounds you would hear and make them
louder. Feel what you would feel and make those feelings more intense.
Smell what you would smell and, if there are tastes associated with the ambition, taste
those too.
Goal setting tools and attaching the line
Imagine now there is a line attached to your body and visualise it stretching out into the
future. At the other end it is attached to your goal. Take note of where on your timeline
that goal is.
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In your mind's eye imagine now that you are walking along your timeline towards your
goal with the line still attached to you.
As you get to the position where the goal is, walk into the image, feel it surrounding you
and intensify the vision, the sounds, the feelings, the smell and the taste.
When you have fully experienced that, decide in your mind that you will walk back to
your starting point keeping the line attached, but walk back only as fast as your
unconscious mind can make all the adjustments needed to take you easily and effortlessly
to your goal.
Those italicised words are worth remembering so read them again and memorise them for
use in the technique.
When you have reached the starting point, you can now release the line that is attached to
you, look forward and envisage yourself achieving your ambition.
Techniques
Three highly effective, and perhaps the best, techniques of goal setting are:
I. The SMART Method
II. The HARD Method
III. The WOOP Method
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Let us dive into the three highly effective systems of goal setting, and learn how to best set
your goals.
1. THE SMART METHOD
For this, we take a cue from George T. Doran's 1981 paper in Management Review to
identify how can we find out if our goals are worthwhile and purposeful.
What he described in that original document has almost become a gold standard today, that
goals should be: S.M.A.R.T. This became famous when one of the most successful CEO's
ever on planet, Jack Welch, inducted this model in GE in the early 1980s.
S – Specific – should target a specific (clearly stated) area for improvement.
M – Measurable – should have numbers or indicators to measure progress.
A – Achievable – should stretch you a little, but stay within your skill/knowledge range. R
– Realistic – should say what results can be achieved in realistic terms, with available
resources.
T – Timely – should specify when the results are due, so that a sense of urgency is there.
2. THE HARD METHOD
This is a very easy and effective way to follow when you want to set personal goals. This
second way was ideated by Mark Murphy in his well-researched 2009 book Hundred
Percenters, to set effective goals, is: H.A.R.D.
H – Heartfelt — have emotional attachment with your goals when setting them.
A – Animated — imagine vivid pictures of the positive feelings you'll have after achieving
them.
R – Required — build a sense of urgency and necessity into the goals you're setting.
D – Difficult — make your goals difficult and be prepared to take their challenges head-
on.
3. THE WOOP METHOD
The third goal setting technique is the newest one. Gabriele Oettingen and Peter
Gollwitzer, psychologists at New York University, created WOOP as a result of their 20+
years of scientific research. It has proven to be effective across ages and life domains.
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WOOP has been shown to improve effort, attendance, and even GPA among students by
significant margins.
WOOP reduced insecurity-based behaviours (e.g., looking through the partner's phone
log) and increased commitment in romantic relationships.
WOOP doubled regular physical exercise over a time period of four months and
increased fruit and vegetable intake by 30% over the period of two years.
WOOP stands for:
W – Wish –
Wish something you want to accomplish for real, one that's exciting, challenging,
realistic.
O – Outcome –
Imagine the best outcome of your goal, and feel how would the outcome make you feel.
O – Obstacle –
Imagine the personal obstacles that prevent you from accomplishing your goal.
P – Plan –
Make an if/then plan to name an action you could do if your obstacle occurs
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In the first block, we looked at the goal itself, your disposition, your brain and processes.
In the second block we considered you, the goal setter, where we hacked and harnessed
you, made declarations, wrote BHAG, checked mental strength, cognitive distortions, how
to boost the brain, did an alignment with career and so on.
After this block, there was a bridge where we considered why people don't achieve their
goals.
In block 3 and in this first chapter which is the seventh chapter of the book, we considered
the unconventional laws of goal setting.
In chapter 8, we considered exercises and games that will keep us engaged through the
entire goal achieving process and lastly in chapter 9 we will look at the tools and models
for setting and achieving your goals.
The book will be closed in this block and chapter looking at the ultimate goal achievement
system [G.A.S].
This system will give you a simple four processes or an extended six process system that
you can never forget and will guide you always even without consciously sitting down to
assess yourself.
It is such a powerful system that it will guide you on a daily basis at both conscious and
unconscious levels.
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5. Financial self
Being responsible with your finance, understanding the noble use of money and conscious
relationship with money
6. Spiritual self
Beliefs and values, having noble goals,
7. Environmental self
Having organised, well maintained and clutter free work, business and home environment.
Having clean clothes and a clean and well-maintained mode of transport.
Minimising waste and monitoring technology time.
8. Professional self
Sharing your strength and gifts. Having clear professional boundaries. While living your
purpose.
All your eight dimensions must be fully and actively involved in the achieving process of
the goal.
Any of the dimensions not involved in the achievement process is strong enough to cause
a negative disruption in the flow of achievement.
Once there is a disturbance or hitch from any of these dimensions, the achievement
process will be greatly slowed down if not completely blocked from manifestation.
The G.A.S process has basically four interdependent levels of process and it can be and
should be extended to six [interdependent] levels for a fail proof manifestation.
The entire process is given an acronym that you cannot forget. The four-step process is –
P. R. A. Y. and the six-step process interdependent process is P. R. A. Y. | E. R. | S
Tell me if you can forget the word pray, prayer or prayers, the meaning is even more
intense –
§ P – Pray [Meditation | Centering | Mindfulness]
§ R – Read [ Research | Study]
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§ A – Ask [your Spirit | People | God | Observe | Listen]

§ Y – Yell [Affirm | Say | Declare]
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§ E – Execute [Systematise | Process]
§ R – Reason [Purpose | Why]
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§ S – Specific
▪ Pray –
Nothing stirs the soul and the spirit like prayer. When you pray especially in the spirit, you
are communicating through your spirit to God.
Prayer is the act of pouring the content of your spirit to God in supplication and
thanksgiving.
Prayer gives a man access to the almighty. It is clear from the bible, that effective prayer
makes energy available to the one praying.
The available energy guides in the direction of the goal set so that there can be a
manifestation at the right time.
If you want to know more about prayer – how to pray, types of prayer and so on, they litter
the pages of the internet.
▪ Read –
Reading engages the mind, the human mental faculty, the cognitive zone.
If you want your reasoning to be sharp and smart, read, reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body – Joseph Addison
You need your imagination to be functionally active if you want your goals to be achieved,
reading challenges your imagination.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading – William Styron.
The bible says that people perish where there is no knowledge. The greatest source of
knowledge that I know is reading, if you must achieve your goal, then you must read. I
love the photo expression below.
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Ask –
There is a mystery about this process, and the mystery is that you don't have to ask
anyone, just ask. Even the bible just said ask and it shall be given to you, the bible didn't
specify whom to ask.
I have practiced this time without number and answers came when I least expected,
accurate, time bound answers. It is simply amazing. This one process you must not leave
out of your goal achieving system.
One of the reasons why the 'ask' system is so powerful is that, it sometimes help you to
pray, it puts you in the meditative mood, it sometimes gets you to be mindful. It sometimes
takes you into the 'yell' system, to be discussed soon.
I like asking as a system because it gets my subconscious to be involved in my goal
achieving process automatically, and once the subconscious is involved, then expect
synchronicities. Make sure you ask, it cost you nothing.
▪ Yell [affirm, say, declare] –
I love the Mariam Webster dictionary definition for this purpose, because it drives home
the
point I am about to make here. The definition says –
To utter or declare with or as if with a yell. It gives other definitions of interest –
· To give a cheer usually in unison
· A usually rhythmic cheer
When you make it a regular practise to declare your goal to your-self., what you are
simply doing is called repetition, it is known that repetition is one of the best ways to
record or input stuff into your subconscious especially when you do it in the positive and
in the first person singular, this is what I mean – 'I have a red Lamborghini sport car by
December 2020'
When you repeat this especially in a rhythmic tone, it becomes so powerful, that your
entire life goes into a zone for manifesting the red Lamborghini sport car by December
2020.
Caution, don't say what you don't want, ONLY say the things you want.
To yell in the goal achieving system means – to affirm, to say or to declare cheerfully and
rhythmically. So, yell.
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Execute –
The missing link – the main reason people fall short of their potentials in life – the gap
between what a person wants to achieve and his/her ability deliver it – not simply tactics,
but a system of getting things done through questioning, analysis, and follow-through.
A discipline for meshing strategy with reality, aligning self with goals, and achieving the
goal set – a central part of a person's strategy and his/her goals and the major job of any
person who wants to fulfil purpose in life and in business – a discipline requiring a
comprehensive understanding of life, people, and environment – the way to link the three
core processes of any goal – self-mastery, the strategy, and the operating plan – together to
get things done on time. Adapted from the book Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram
Charan.
Execution is the core of everything and is key, lack of dexterity inexecution is the ban of
most goals not achieved.
Reason –
Purpose discovery is the backbone of any successful endeavour. Challenges will come,
strong reasons to give up will arise. You will get to a point where it does make any sense
logically to continue, at such points, the only reason to continue will be that you have
define your reason for the goal. Your big, very big why.
A lot of people have good reasons to give up and even friends and family reason with them
and my answer is often, was the purpose clear at the onset.
This is the point where we have to check where the goal was set from in the first place. If
the goal was set from the 'acquired mind', it can only go as far as the mind – the logical
mind can go. But if the goal was set from the soul, then it will be sustained by the large
and abundant supply of all the earth.
If you want to be fully engaged with and aligned with your goals so that you can achieve
your set goal, you must define your purpose.
· Specific –
This process helps the brain in deeper ways than imagined. If you remember the filtering
process I discussed earlier on. The brain selects from the millions of waves in the
atmosphere based on what we want, our beliefs, value system and experiences.
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To help your brain select and reveal to you the resources from the environment that you
need to process your goal, this process of been specific comes on handy, it is like been
very clear on what your desires are so that your brain don't guess.
The brain uses what I call the P.A.I. process [Pattern, Association and Interpretation] to
select for you, but when you employ the process of specificity, you are making the job of
your brain very easy and at the same time very fast.
This process does not just help the brain in selection, it also a language of the
subconscious. The more specific you are in setting your goal, the faster you are sure of
getting it achieved and now you know the reason.
Result Guide for Career Quotient Quantification
Scoring:
1. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0 2. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0
3. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0 5. a = 1 b = 0
7. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0 9. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0 How did you rate?
If you scored:
4. a = 2 b = 1 c = 0 6. a = 1 b = 0
d = -1
8. a = 2 b = 1 10. a = 3 b = 2
c=0c=1
19 or more:
Very strong CQ! Congratulations; you are effectively managing your career.
13 to 18:
Above average. You only need minor adjustments to increase your CQ.
7 to 12:
Average. Are you coasting in your current job or frustrated that you're not advancing?
Focus on developing 1 or 2 of the above CQ areas.
Below 7:
Your career is off-track, or is heading that way. Consider devoting more energy and effort
to managing and shaping your career. Identify 1 thing you can do this week to re-ignite
your career.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
JOHN - MABUN
About John-Mabun Adesoga

John-Mabun Adesoga is the Chief Executive Officer of PoweredUp Motivational Services
- a leading coaching and manpower consulting firm in Lagos. He has
over 15years experience in public speaking and life coaching with
specialty in self-discovery, self-mastery and peak performance.
The cerebral John-Mabun is recognised as a leading mind,
emotions and behavioural change coaches helping in
self-discovery, unlocking potential, motivating and
partnering individuals and organisations and
government, helping them to confidently navigate
ife transitions.
John-Mabun, a certified management trainer, has
worked with several small business leaders and
start-ups and individuals to discover their career
paths. He is a pull coach that challenges people
and organisations to get more out of themselves.
Through PoweredUp, he has coordinated training
sessions for non-profit organisations and great
brands such as Staco Insurance Plc, Sweet
Sensation, Petro Equipment Logistics Limited,
Ernal Resources Limited, TTTF International
Limited, Solar Sister Entrepreneurs, Imasel
DV Limited, Ibile Vogue and Ibile Vogue Academy, Edmark International, Demi- Matt
schools, Creative Entrepreneurs Association of Nigeria [CEAN], Inspired Multi-
Dimensional Services and legislators.
He is a published author of three books namely:
· Peerless: Strategies for Academic Excellence
· Peerless: Personal Development for Students
· The Practices of Legends
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MEET THE AUTHOR
JOHN - MABUN
John-Mabun's key areas of expertise are learning facilitation, Corporate & Executive
Coaching, Self-Mastery, Personal Performance Coaching, Leadership Coaching,
Confidence Building, Career Coaching and Team Coaching.
He is an alumnus of the prestigious Olusola Lanre Coaching Academy [OLCA], Lagos;
member of the Life Coaching Association of Nigeria, [LCAN]; member Catalyst Coaching
Community [CCC]; Certified Life Coach and NLP [neurolinguistics programming]
Practitioner and Certified management trainer with Centre for Management Development
[CMD] – the policy making, promotion and coordination of managerial manpower
development accreditation and registration of management trainers and training
institutions in Nigeria.
John-Mabun has attended and participated in several entrepreneurial, professional and
management courses and has authored articles and organised professional seminars and
podcasts.
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RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Other Titles by John-Mabun

· First Principles of Performance
· Exploits by Revelation
· The Practices of Legends – Hard copy only
· The 6 Incontestable Qualities of a Purpose Driven Life
· Life of Exploits – the Triads
· Purpose Discovery – Cheat Sheet
· My Life Zone Exercise – Work Sheet
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OTHER REFERENCES
References –
▪ Krishanti – 5 fun intuition exercise
▪ Madhuleena Roy Chowdhury – the science and psychology of goal setting 101
▪ Todd Sylvester – creating your personal declaration statement
▪ Josh Kaufman – the personal MBA
▪ John and Jeff – the purpose revolution
▪ James C Collins and Jerry I Porras – building your company's vision
▪ Gregg Swanson – seven neurohacks
▪ Joanne Loberg – measure your career quotient
▪ Diane May – intuition exercise work sheet.
▪ John Robson – what blocks your intuition
▪ Elaine Mead – goal setting exercises, tools and games
▪ Sandip Roy – highly effective goal setting techniques
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My Parting Word and Prayer for You –

May your hand hold Destiny...and may Victory be yours in Jesus name.... amen. Thank
you for taking your time to read this. Thank you.
I see a better you. I see a greater planet. – John-Mabun
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HOW TO ACHIEVE

YOUR SET GOALS

Written by: John-Mabun Adesoga

Setting Goals is one thing, achieving the set goals is another.

Uniquely crafted and written in plain language for anyone to understand.

Dr. Ope Banwo.

My Sincere Review Comment on the Book :

In this well-researched Book, Pastor John-Mabun has explained some life-changing

It is a must read for anyone who wants to make a difference.

Copyright © 2019 by John-Mabun Adesoga

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BLOCK 1 – About the goal

BLOCK 2 – About You: The Goal Setter

BLOCK 3 – About the systems, tools and structures

1. Goal Setting Laws

BLOCK 4 – About the ultimate G.A.S

· Other titles by John-Mabun

· Parting Word and Prayer

The Process Goals –

I approach this model as deep probing questions -

Your Brain and Gaol Setting

RAS AND GOAL SETTING

Things To Consider When Creating A Declaration:

Five Guiding Criteria for A Good BHAG:

WHAT ARE YOU DEEPLY

Core Beliefs ... 1st part of guiding philosophy

Interpersonal Conﬁdence – are you assertive without bullying or pushy.

2. Examine the Evidence.

3. Double Standard Method.

This hinders people from seeing the big picture in life

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II. more than a year ago,

II. 12 months old,

I. about 2 Networking Contacts weekly,

The list is not all inclusive but comprehensive -

· No Quiet Reﬂective Time

The three that will be addressed here are –

1. Establish Your Purpose or Direction

How to Build Purpose into Your Life/Career/Business –

Career and Business Crafting: Gain the leading edge

· Career/business _____________ [1 – 10]

· Family _____________ [1 – 10]

· Networking skills _____________ [1 – 10]

· Career/business ______________ [1 – 10]

· Family ______________ [1 – 10]

· Networking skills ______________ [1 – 10]

Reward yourself for each sub goal

THE LAWS OF GOAL SETTING.

Goal setting laws – don't break them

The Law of Work

The Law of Leadership

Vision Boards Collage Exercise

Goal setting tools and techniques

Finally, ask yourself these questions:

§ A – Ask [your Spirit | People | God | Observe | Listen]

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About John-Mabun Adesoga

Other Titles by John-Mabun

My Parting Word and Prayer for You –

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