Motivational Monday – SETTING YOUR BHAG – BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL

SETTING YOUR BHAG – BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL
by
Coach Rozy for Motivation Monday Blog
(Adapted from Darin Hardy – Author of “The Compound Effect”

In less than 5 days from now, we will enter into 2016.

And while many people will be considering making a new year’s “intention” (and ultimately fail!), I want you to be the success minded achiever that you are and set your BHAG—Big Hairy Audacious Goal—for the year.

I’ve been blessed over the years to hang around and spend time with folks that have such BHAG’s that it made my head spin. With each one, the one skill they had that allowed them to not just set the BHAG’s – but achieve them was: setting, sticking to and staying committed to BIG goals. Following are a couple of ideas I’ll share with you come from my studies and practices of this program.

The Two Common Traits of Superachievers

I am often look for common traits when I get around successful people. And I love to get to know superachievers. So what are these traits? The answer is easy because those common factors are shared by nearly 100 percent of top achievers. They are:

1) A relentless commitment to constant learning and;

2) Clear goals expressed in a beautifully crafted document detailing their plans to achieve them.

Business 101: Goal Setting

Coach Larry Buffington, from GVHS was one of the first people to talk to me about this study. You’ve probably read about the Harvard study, but it’s worth reviewing again as we dedicate some significant time and energy to our decision to get serious about designing the life we want to lead.

Mark McCormick in his book What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989.
In 1979, graduates of the MBA program were asked to set clear written goals for their future and their plans to accomplish them. It turned out only 3 percent of the graduates had written goals, 13 percent had goals but they were not in writing and 84 percent had no specific goals at all–aside from getting out of school and enjoying the summer.

Ten years later, in 1989, the researchers again interviewed the members of that same graduating class. They found that the 13 percent who had goals that were not in writing were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent of students who had no goals at all. Most surprisingly, they found that the 3 percent of graduates who had clear, written goals were earning, on average, 10 times more than 97 percent of their graduating class. The only difference between the groups (it wasn’t background, looks, smarts or other things we seem to think brings folks success) was the clarity of goals they had set (and spelled out) for themselves when they graduated.

Now if you knew that stretching several hours out over eight weeks to devote to strategic goal-setting could multiply the results in your life by 10—surpassing the accomplishments of your peers, competitors, family members and neighbors—and produce 10 times more than what you are likely to achieve without defining your goals on paper—would you do it? Would it be worth it? Of course it would. So how do you go about. Keep reading my friend.

HOW Goal Setting Actually Works: The Mystery ‘Secret’ Revealed

You only see, experience and get what you look for.

If you don’t know what to look for, you certainly won’t get it.

By our very nature we are goal-seeking creatures. Our brain is always trying to align our outer world with what we’re seeing and expecting in our inner world. When you instruct your brain to look for the things you want, you will begin to see them. In fact, the object of your desire has probably always existed around you, but your mind and eyes weren’t open to “seeing” it.

This is actually how the Law of Attraction really works.

It is not some mysterious, esoteric voodoo–which it sometimes sounds like.

It’s far simpler and more practical than that.

We are bombarded with billions of sensory (visual, audio, physical) bytes of information each day. To keep ourselves from going insane, we ignore 99.9 percent of them. You only really see, hear or experience those upon which your mind focuses. This is why when you “think” something, it appears that you are miraculously drawing it into your life. In reality, you’re now just seeing what was already there. You ARE truly “attracting” it into your life. It wasn’t there before or accessible TO YOU until your thoughts focused and directed your mind to see it.
Make sense? It’s not mysterious at all; it’s actually quite logical. Now with this new perception, whatever your mind is thinking internally is what it will focus on and all of a sudden “see” within that 99.9 percent of remaining space.

So this week it’s time to set your BHAG – and WRITE IT DOWN. When you do – what AMAZING happen.