Dec 10
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Earlier this year I wrote an article on 52 Things To Help You Live More Fulfilling Lives In The 52 Weeks of 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/25wh5j7) I think they are pretty much still applicable to 2011. Do check it out. 
Today I share with you Eight Principles to help you to maintain and achieve your goals for 2011.
1. After thinking and writing down your goals, ask yourself how are you doing to achieve them. Too many people set goals without thinking about how to achieve them — thinking through this will also help you to see if your goals are realistic or not.
2. If you don't know how to achieve them or lack information on how to achieve them, learn! You could search out a mentor, coach, read a book or attend a course. This should not be a reason for not being able to achieve your goals.
3. Set realistic deadlines. It would be best to set an overall goal for the year, and then break them up into months, and then weeks. This way, you will find that your goals are actually not as overwhelming as you thought and are easily achievable.
4. One of the sabotaging factors in achieving goals is the tendency to set unrealistic deadlines. I know because I've done this before. When you set unrealistic deadlines, either too far down the road which may make you procrastinate further, or too tight a deadline at the expense of lacking balance in your life, you will want to stop going for your goals. This is why making the adjustments on the weekly or monthly basis is wise.
5. However, it is important to be honest with self, and not let the procrastinating nature come up with excuses to keep changing the deadlines!
6. Be specific in your whats and hows. If you are not specific enough, you will not be able to achieve them because you did not give yourself instructions to do so. Just as when you employ someone to work for you, and if you do not train your staff to do them with a proper system, your staff will not be able to help you to achieve the results. Same with yourself, you are your own 'employee' in this sense.
7. Set up systems. Everything we do must have a system. From taking care of our health, achieving financial goals, improving relationships to everything else. A system keeps you in check and allows you to follow the steps without you wasting too much time thinking about how, what, where every single time. Use the system and save time, save energy.
8. Look into what are some of your internal laws. These internal laws are governing ideas ingrained in your mindset and habits that are sabotaging you constantly. For example, if you would never dare to speak up because your internal law says that you are not supposed to because you are not knowledgeable enough then you need to change this internal law. Other internal laws we may have include, "we can't do this what will people think!", or "I don't think it is my divine path to be rich because I want to focus on being spiritual in this lifetime". These are obviously self imposed laws that only serve to hold you back and make you small.
I wish you the best in 2011 and may all your goals be attained at the highest level possible!
© 2010/2011 Shamala Tan
