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Goal Setting Workout

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Dear Reader,

Brian Tracy said, Success is goals, and all else is commentary. Thats why Iwanted to give you this first chapter for free. Even if you never purchase my 50Personal Development Exercises for Entrepreneurs, youll at least benefit

greatly by learning how to set and achieve goals. All successful people do so.

Youre in for a treat. In this e-book I have written all the exercises for the homebased business entrepreneur, so it will all be relevant. And in many cases,added multimedia components (audios and videos) at my website.

Enjoy,Mike

Watching the videos and listening to the audios

Many of the exercises in this book have a multi-media (audio or video)component. When you see these symbols, you know that there is more contentonline:

for Audio

for Video

To access the multi-media content of your Goal Setting Workout, youll simplycreate a username and password on this page:

http://michaelgriesmer.com/goals-workout/goals-workout-create-password/

And then log in using your new username and password, here:

http://michaelgriesmer.com/goals-workout/goals-workout-login/


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The Goal Setting Workout for Entrepreneurs was written and compiled byMichael Griesmer and is available absolutely free athttp://michaelgriesmer.com. Just give me your name and e-mail address so Ican keep in touch with you. Ill send you blog updates, educational pieces,recommendations, etc.

The Goals Workout is Chapter 1 from 50 Personal Development Exercisesfor Entrepreneurs. (Coming out in 2011.) If you like this free material, considerpurchasing the whole thing at michaelgriesmer.com. Also, tell your friends!

About the picture on the cover.

I did not ask permission to use that WONDERFUL picture, so I hope Sensei

Perry will forgive me, if he every finds out. To give credit where credit is due,here is his website:

http://yawara.seikijukukarate.com/kHistory/SenseiFrankPerry.html


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Table of Contents

1. Five-year fantasy2. Brainstorm your dreams3. Add time frames and prioritize4. Define the reasons why, check congruency5. Purpose, passion, mission6. Convert dreams in to goals7. Fine tune your daily tasks8. List resources you have or will need to acquire9. Make a visual representation of your major definite purpose

(See page 2 for how to access the online,multi-media content of this eBook)


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Exercise 1: Five-Year Fantasy

What would your life look like in 5 years if it was perfect in everyrespect?

Imagine for a moment that you have no limitations at all. You imagine that allthings are possible for you.

Listen to the audios on the website and answer the various sets of questions.Before you write down your answers, day dream about your ideal future first.Making mental movies will involve their right brain, so your subconscious mindcan contribute ideas (and details) that you would not otherwise get.

Then write your answers below.

(See page 2 for how to access the online, multi-media content of this eBook)

Business and Financial:

How?


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Family and Lifestyle:

How?


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Health and Fitness:

How?


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Personal Development and Contribution:

How?


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Exercise 2: Brainstorm your dreams

This second exercise may seem really similar to the first one. It is.But since Ill be asking the questions in a different way, youll findyourself coming up with different answers. You wont write exactly the samething for both exercises. And this will serve you.

What do I want to do?

What do I want to be?

What do I want to see?

What do I want to have?

Where do I want to go?


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Inventory of your dreams. Keep your pen moving for 10-15 minutes.


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Exercise 3: Add timeframes &Prioritize

Listen to the first audio, Anthony Robbins Assign Timelines and then go back

to your answers in the previous two exercises and write when you would expectto achieve them.

Are most of your goals:

Short term Long term Or is there a balance?

Listen to the second audio, Jim Rohn Add Timeframes and Prioritize.

(The beginning of this one overlaps with the Anthony Robbins audio.)

Jim Rohn and Tony suggest different timeframes (6 months to 20 years vs. 1year to 10 years) but you are free to assign whatever timeframes you want.These are your goals.

Jim Rohn suggests picking 16 goals (4 goals in each of 4 timeframes). I thinkthats a bit excessive. If you only spent 5 minutes on each one, this exercisealone would take over an hour. So I give you permission to pick only 5 goals forthis exercise. I want you to be able to devote more than 5 minutes to each one.

Print out a copy of the next page for each goal and write your detaileddescriptions.

These written descriptions will become one of your most importantpersonal possessions. Jim Rohn


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Goal Description

Goal:

First vividly imagine it, then write down what you saw:


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Exercise 4: Define the reasons why,check congruency

Listen to both audios on the website and watch my video. Then, print

out as many copies of the next page as you need and figure out thereasons why you will be motivated to work on your goals for as long as ittakes and the reasons why your life goals are an expression of whatyou really want.

Authenticity to your true values requires deep self knowledge. You may not beable to write definitive answers for this exercise today. You may need to comeback to it from time to time. For now, write something to stimulate your thinking.

The next exercise will help you gain clarity by viewing this from a differentperspective.


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Reasons

Goal:

Define in writing why achieving this goal is important to you:


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Exercise 5: Purpose, Passion, Mission

Listen to the three audios on the website, then answer the followingquestions (and the ones on the website).

What do you love to do? What are your particular gifts and talents? What reallytouches you deeply (i.e. an injustice)? What do you think needs to be changedabout the world, that you feel called to tackle (or contribute to)? What do youwant to create and share with the world? Picture yourself on your death bed.What meaningful accomplishments would make you feel fulfilled and smile withpeace of mind?

(Now this is not a ten minute exercise for most people. I went through a period ofquestioning that took me 2.5 years before my purpose became clear to me.These questions will get you started thinking about it. Write down yourprovisional answers now.)


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Exercise 6: Convert dreams into goals

What Jim Rohn called Long term goals in Exercise 2 above, StevenScott calls Dreams. In exercises 6 and 7 we are going to break thosedreams down in to goals, steps, and tasks, so that you end up with a detailedwritten plan for your goals. Then all you have to do is carry out your plans!

Again, to avoid confusion, in exercises 6 and 7:

Dreams means your big life goals, the targets that youve decided topursue

Goals means the sub-goals or major milestones youll reach on your wayto your big goals (your Dreams)

Steps and Tasks make up the detailed plan to achieve your goals anddreams.

Listen to both audios on the website, then

Create a Goals Page for each of your Dreams. Map out the milestones that willhave to happen for you to get to that dream. Print multiple copies of the nextpage, and do this in writing.

Or you can download the Dream Conversion Journal from the website and dothe same thing in Excel.


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Goals Page

Dream:

Ill have to accomplish the following Goals to get to my Dream:


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Exercise 7: Fine tune your daily tasks

You convert your Dreams into Goals.You convert your Goals into Steps.You convert your Steps into Tasks.

The Steps can be thought of as parts or phases of each Goal.

The Tasks are the specific things youll have to do to complete each Step. TheTasks are small enough to actually work on. Review your list of tasks when youdo your week planning (and/or day planning) and schedule them on yourcalendar.

Listen to further instructions at Exercise 7 on the website. You can alsodownload an Excel version of the Goals Sheet and the Steps and Tasks sheet. Ifyour comfortable using Excel it might work better for you than the paper version

because you can add as many rows as you like under each Step to lay out asmany tasks as you think necessary to accomplish each step.

Break down each of your Goals into the Steps and Tasks youll have to take tobring them about.

Print multiple copies of the next page, and do this in writing.


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Goal:

Write down the Steps and Tasks youll have to take to accomplish your goal:

Steps Tasks


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Exercise 8: List resources you have orwill need to acquire

Make an inventory of your strengths and abilities and resources you can draw on

to achieve your goals.

Now list the information youll need to seek out and the resources that you willneed to acquire by partnering with other people.


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Exercise 9: Make a visual representationof your major definite purpose

Watch the video on the website then sketch out your initial answers below. Then

get creative with some kind of visualization (PowerPoint slide, poster/collage,photos, drawing or audio recording) that you can review every day. The purposeof reviewing your goals daily is to inspire yourself, so get excited. If your goalsare not that exciting, revise them upward!

Goal/Amount:

Give:

Date:

Plan:

Future benefits:


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Since reviewing your goals every day is a new habit, you should be diligent atreally doing it for the first several weeks. Check off all these boxes over the nextthree weeks, and you will have trained yourself to think about your goalsconsistently!

Print out this page and tape it to a wall somewhere where you will see it everyday. Then check of a box each time you review your goals.

(Today)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7Morning

Evening

8 9 10 11 12 13 14Morning

Evening

15 16 17 18 19 20 21Morning

Evening


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The Goals Workout is Chapter 1 from 50 Personal Development Exercisesfor Entrepreneurs. (Coming out in 2011) If you like this free material, considerpurchasing the whole thing at http://michaelgriesmer.com. Also, tell yourfriends!

50 Personal Development Exercises forEntrepreneurs

Table of Contents

GOAL SETTING

1. Five-year fantasy2. Brainstorm your dreams3. Add time frames and prioritize4. Define the reasons why, check congruency5. Purpose, passion, mission6. Convert dreams in to goals7. Fine tune your daily tasks8. List resources you have or will need to acquire9. Make a visual representation of your major definite purpose

PERSONAL POWER

10. Identify your procrastination patterns11. Put in place a remedy, check for values conflicts vs. congruency12. Preframe activities you might avoid: make them appealing13. Do something small and obvious in each room. Start for 15 min & you'll

probably do more14. You are responsible15. Developing habits

TIME MANAGEMENT

16. List the 6 most important things you have to do tomorrow, and put them inorder of importance

17. Important roles18. Activity log19. Daily Successes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

20. Financial Independence, escaping the rat race.21. Making lots of money means youve given lots of value. Be fruitful / Get

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22. Entrepreneurs look for a need and fill it. Your identity as "problem solver"23. Philanthropy (something bigger than yourself)24. What patterns of success and achievement did you learn from each of

your parents (or whoever raised you)? What patterns of laziness? Whatattitudes about money?

TEAM/LEVERAGE

25. List the most negative and most positive people in your life26. List people who you would like to approach about forming a mastermind27. Do something effective and leveraged (start a business)28. Leveraging people (network marketing, employees, delegating and

outsourcing)29. Leveraging technology (Internet Marketing)30. Revise your goals: shooting for the moon

MENTAL SOFTWARE

31. Meditation for stress reduction32. Meditation for visualization33. Mental Software repeated listening to inspiring audios34. Weaken disempowering beliefs by doubting them with questions35. Install empowering beliefs36. How to stop worrying. Positive expectation.37. Catch yourself ruminating and transformational vocabulary.38. Changing submodalities (Neuro Linguistic Programming)39. Pattern Interrupt. Scramble bad memories

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

40. Make a list of books to read. Some recommendations41. Make a list of the seminars and advanced training you want to attend

when you can afford it42. List aspects of your personality to improve43. Sitting for ideas44. Journaling: good thoughts are fleeting

SALES AND MARKETING SKILLS

45. Identify your beliefs about selling46. Reframe your self-image, The Go Giver47. Buying facilitation48. Conceptual selling49. Internet marketing50. Solutions provider mindset

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