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Jeffrey Ziegler in
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March 12, 2012 |
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Three weekends ago, I was down in Arizona hanging out with a special group of traders that have become known as The PowerTribe.
If you’ve ever cruised through Arizona in the winter time, it is the picture of what winter weather should look like!
Anyway… During our get gathering one of my best friends, Don Cardon, came and chatted with us for about an hour or so on the mindset...
Jeff – You are on to something and I am right there with you. “GOAAALLLL” is what they as they say in soccer celebrating. And in golf, they say to pick the tiniest of targets to aim at, not just the fairway or the green. Your brain will pick up on these things…. give it the credit it deserves by feeding it specific tasks.
Since I daily look at my emails, what I have now done in my gmail account is to make a folder at the left side of my screen entitled “@ DO GOAL” (the @ sign puts it at the top of the incoming email folder list).
Then I email myself a note with the subject being “dogoal”. I then have the email program file all emails from me with the subject “dogoal” placed in that folder. In the body of the note is the “What:” and the “How:” of accomplishing the goal.
Then on a daily basis I pull up my “@ DO GOAL” folder and read the list. From time to time I will re-forward to myself the list with more refinements in the “How?” section and specifically enumerate the subgoals to be achieved.
There is indeed nothing better than systematically re-putting in my mind what I, the goal seeking machine, am all about. And there is nothing worse for me than just drifting and floating with no such intention or commitment.
God put me here here for a reason.
Thanks, Jeff, and good luck with your stuff as well.
Hi Jeff,
I’ve been a goal setter for some time; that is how I was able to retire along with my wife a few years earlier than the norm. We are the envy of all our co-workers, and as we look back on it all I am so glad that I set out on a plan and stayed with it.
I got a little complacent after retiring, but your video resparked me. So I set two new goals, to loose weight and get back in shape, and to become proficient in zone to zone futures trading. And I have started taking steps to reach my goals, including dieting, slowly increasing my exercise regiment, and opening a futures trading account, and attending all the webinars I can on the subject of futures trading. I am now working on fine tuning these two goals with milestones to help monitor my progress.
thanks,
Larry